Students stand up for Midland teachers in contract negotiations

Several students spoke in support for their teachers at the Midland Public Schools board meeting on Monday, the Midland Daily News reported. The Midland schools administration and 460-member Midland Education Association have been in contract negotiations since the summer of 2010. The News reported: "I believe that Midland teachers make a difference," Thomas Wheadon, an H.H. Dow High School senior who works on the school's newspaper and yearbook, said. "I cannot sit idly by when the people who got me into college are so poorly treated."

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