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Just when you think it can’t get worse, of course it does.

PROVIDENCE — After two hours of contentious discussion, the School Board voted 4 to 3 Thursday night to send out termination notices to each of the city’s 1,926 public school teachers.

Every teacher received a certified letter from the School Department on Thursday informing them that they might be terminated at the end of the school year. It also said the School Board would vote on the proposed dismissals at Thursday night’s meeting, which was moved to the Providence Career and Technical Academy to accommodate the huge turnout.

Customer Ralph thinks, “It sorta reminds me of the restaurant customer who ticked off the waitress BEFORE she brought out the food. I’m not saying that these teachers will spit on the children the way a waitress might spit on the food, but it certainly seems like bad timing to me.”

“Worse yet,” Juanita thinks, “what if they all move to Texas and become hairdressers?”

Why did the school board choose firing instead of issuing layoffs?

“This is a back-door Wisconsin,” Smith said, referring to the weeklong protests in Madison by labor unions. “We don’t know why we’re being fired. The mayor says he needs flexibility. Can you buy that? I don’t know of any other district that has done this.”

Okay, all you teachers who voted Republican in the last election, head on up to the blackboard and write, “I will not be a stinkin’ idiot and ever vote Republican again in my whole life”  100 times.