This is no April Fools item. Teachers in America's leftist heartland, Berkeley, California, have announced that they will not assign their students written homework until they receive a pay raise. The local teachers' union initiated the strike and is requiring teachers not to "volunteer" outside of their contracted hours. Already, a Black History Month event has been cancelled and stacks of papers are piling up. Meanwhile, parents have crossed the picket line—those scabs!—to staff a middle-school science fair. As the NEA says, "We teach the children." Except, of course, when we don't.
"Teachers refuse to give homework," Associated Press, March 1, 2005