That creaking sound you hear is an entire state’s teacher’s union getting set to explode.

Here’s hoping the Central Falls, Rhode Island area has a strong and healthy Tea Party contingent. Via Hot Air, a Rhode Island school superintendent has fired the district’s entire staff because the teacher’s union wouldn’t accept her contract offer.

A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.

Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring. The teachers’ union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.

The teachers at the high school make $70,000-$78,000, as compared to a median income in the town of $22,000. This exemplifies a nationwide trend in which public sector workers make far more than their private-sector counterparts (with better benefits).

The school superintendent has responded to the union’s stubbornness by firing every teacher and administrator at the school.

The superintendent’s plan included:

• Adding 25 minutes to the school day,

• Providing tutoring on a rotating schedule before and after school,

• Eating lunch with students once a week,

• Submitting to more rigorous evaluations,

• Attending weekly after-school planning sessions with other teachers and

• Participating in two weeks of training in the summer.

Okay, so that’s not nothing. Still, considering the economy and the far, far better pay those teachers enjoyed than the community around them…

Did they make any counter-offer? Just wondering.

More importantly, I wonder how Superintendent Gallo is going to weather the hatestorm coming her way, courtesy of the state teacher’s union. It’s coming, and it’s coming ugly.