Court Opinion

ID: 9696923
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:01:40.212934+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:27.783456
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Dissenting Opinion by
President Judge Crumlish, Jr..-
I respectfully dissent.
I strongly disagree with the majority’s conclusion that a series of selective strikes does not present a clear and present danger to the health, safety and welfare of the students.
The danger lies in requiring the students to attend school each morning with the unreasonable expectation that they will receive a full day of supervised continuous instruction and care. We are presented here with frequent, unscheduled interruptions of the educational system during a student’s formative years. I would not hazard the safety and well-being of our children to a school district that could not insure against the risk of abandonment by teachers during the day.
It is not the aggregate loss of instructional days that I find most vexing here. Nor is the purpose of this dissent an attempt to usurp the statutory right of a public School teacher to strike. It is the unpredictability of a strike during a school day that I seek to guard against.
I would therefore affirm the trial court’s order enjoining the Association from engaging in further selective strikes.
Judges MacPhail and Colins join in this dissent.