What Teacher's Unions have wrought |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Democrat constituencies
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Anonymous said...
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"We don't care. We don't have to... we're the Phone Company!"
That says it all. Just wait 'till these same criminals are in charge of your healthcare. "Mr. Jones, you'll probably live for years and years before that tumor is a problem... and no, you may not get a second opinion. NEXT!" -
6/26/07, 10:50 AM
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Anonymous said...
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2 teachers out of 80,000 were fired in a year. Unbelievable. Considering that those who go into teaching are the lowest-performing students on campus, based on SAT entry exams, the school systems clearly have high tolernace for stupidty and low performance. Pathetic standards. And students are supposed to learn from this? No way.
As any repairman will tell you, when a system is broken, the first question you ask is "did it EVER work?" If so, when was that. Reset the system back to the state it was in when it worked.
For America, that means the America of the 1950s. Clearly, some of that is undesirable (segregation) or impossible simply through fiat (e.g. intact families with a stay-at-home Mom and low levels of divorce) but I would argue that many of these problems are a RESULT of the poor-performing schools. Structure a modern school as they were in the 1950s, give the principal the ability to hire and fire without oversight, the ability to throw out disruptive students (perhaps automatically sentencing them to reform school?), ban union membership among the staff, and give the teachers a big, thick paddle to be used as they see fit, and I will show you the highest-performing school in America.
But that's an experiment the Teacher's Unions will not allow because it will demonstrate the problem lies with them and their leadership.
It's all a big, corrupt game. The legislature, as demonstrated in this video, knows exactly what they're doing. They just don't care. The teachers know they're flunkies. They just don't care. The school boards know where the problems are, but they're hamstrung by the legislature and often, by their own incompetence.
John Stossel for President.
--Jack -
6/26/07, 11:04 AM
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Anonymous said...
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"There's nothing money can't fix."
Spoken like a true liberal,
while picking the pockets of America.
What a bunch of #$&@! I'm going to stop hoping for grandchildren. This country is more and more resembling the (former?) USSR. -
6/26/07, 11:23 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I made it about 3 minutes. Sickening. Been saying it gor years, vouchers. The teacher's unions are destroying our country. They are in a sick relationship with the democrat party. They need each other and one without the other will see the death of both,
MM -
6/26/07, 11:36 AM
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SherryM said...
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This is so sad and aggravating at the same time. Teaching should be a public services not a career, career. I have known precious few good teachers and many bad ones, and it is the bad ones that are biggest supporters of the unions to cover there back sides.. The good ones stand alone. sadly the ones I liked the best retired 15 years ago, God help the kids now.
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6/26/07, 12:24 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Much of the weakness in our educational system can be blamed on changes in societal perceptions and norms. Having taught active-duty sailors in various environments and later both high-school and university students for 15 years, I clearly saw the difference a little bit of personal accountability, peer stigma for failure, and platform authority can make in the learning environment.
Back in the 40s and 50s, kids made fun of other kids who just couldn’t cut it in class, couldn’t keep up, couldn’t go on with their friends to the next grade. And few things are crueler to kids than other kids. Today no stigma for failure exists; in fact, the guy who defies the system, who folds his arms across his chest and says, “Go ‘head. Teach me. I dare ya!” acquires some kind of legendary status, some sort of intoxicating aura, some type of folk-hero charisma.
In the military environment I taught in, instructors had the hammer: you didn’t pass, you didn’t get liberty. Today’s teachers in middle- and high-school classrooms have no real control other than their personal charm, their ability to infotain, their natural strengths and leadership abilities, which most either barely possess or have in pitifully insufficient levels to handle kids whose lives are based largely on 22-minute sitcoms or MTV or Gameboys.
One of the most frequent comments I got on my evaluation forms in my Technical Writing classes from college seniors about to graduate was “Why the hell didn’t they teach us this crap in high school where it could have done us some good!”
Political correctness, lack of authoritative power in teachers and instructors, outdated or fluff-filled curricula, and total absence of accountability for personal shortcomings have made most middle- and high-school teachers no more than day-care workers and paper pushers, basically minimum-wage babysitters. A few are truly gifted, or at least talented, and somehow manage to drive a few basic concepts and principles home to their arrogant, distrusting, and truculent charges. Most, however, are forced to simply go through the motions, hoping that at least 2 or 3 are listening to what they are saying and that they won’t get mugged on the way from the teachers’ lounge to their car after classes are finished.
It’s damned hard to teach anything to someone who believes either that he already knows all he’ll ever need to know or that nothing being taught by the system will ever be of any value to him. -
6/26/07, 12:44 PM
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Anonymous said...
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And eros you can lay that mindset to the teacher's unions fixing something that wasn't broken in the first place. Few things drop your jaw time after time like the garbage that is coming out of public schools.
Forced sex education, forced acceptance of homosexuals, rain forest math, outright hostility to conservative ideas, zero tolerance policies resulting in expulsions of students carrying aspirans, religious mockery, an American History that bears no resemblance to reality, removal of Jefferson and Washington's from high schools, reading and math remedial classes needed by high
school grads, An Inconvenient Truth as the truth...
It's a wonder that we're not a second tier country. The pursuit of wealth is our strong suit. Sad. The public schools certainly have distilled patriotism out of students. They have no appreciation for the lottery they have won, and instead the ratbastards teaching today(and I'm speaking in generalities) make this country out to be the villon. For cripes sakes, Howard GDCSMFing Zinn's anti american History book is widely used as a textbook!
MM -
6/26/07, 2:24 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Here's the saddest part -- the education system we have wasn't arrived at by accident. It was designed to be a pathetic mess that is little more than a though-control experiment which rewards failure and encourages ignorance. (Yes, as sickening as it seems, popular mass-ignorance is a desired outcome.) Every link in the chain is thoroughly (and I mean thoroughly!) documented in a book by John Taylor Gatto called "The Underground History of American Education" (go read it here: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
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He details how the Carnieges, the Rockefellers, Henry Ford (the Nazi sympathizer) and dozens of other miscellaneous socialists of the 1940s insisted on a forced public education system that would create obedient little mind-numbed robots that would be good little factory workers, and too ignorant and poorly-educated to leave or even know that life has more to offer them.
(Sounds familiar to the billionaire business leaders pushing for immigration these days, doesn't it?)
I'm telling you, that book will forever change the way you think about government schools. It is transformational.
--Jack -
6/26/07, 4:01 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Jack,
I don't know how my opinion of public schools could get worse. I've seen first hand exactly what is being taught.
It's not for me, I'm set, but for my daughter and my grandchildren to be.
The destruction of culture by illegals and the disgusting education that our children receive is a deathy one-two punch to our country. And we've got President Bush pouring gas on this. And the left dominated MSM cheering it on.
MM -
6/26/07, 6:22 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The daughter of my Prague host when we visited last year was learning physics in Italian.
She was also learning Italian in Physics.
It is to be her 5th language.
I think she's the equivalent to our High School Junior. -
6/27/07, 12:58 AM
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Anonymous said...
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(Posted previously on the highjacked religion subject simultaneous to it's post being outdated).......There is one subject in school teaching that over time will be instrumental in dividing Christians apart and it is the one that I almost never broach among my friends of the faithful, and that is, the devisive question of whether Evolution or Creationism is fact.I see it as becoming such a rip in the fabric of the family of Christians, and teachers , that I could believe the entire rumpus was fostered and festered by the Left.When I first started hearing of the arguments, I still considered myself a member of the group of religious believers, and was baffled, as I remembered as a small child being taught that Evolution and the Bible were not mutually exclusive.In late middle life I ceased being a member of organized religion,and that's certainly NOT to say,anti-religionist,but it's certainly pro science. I thoroughly regret that so many of my fellow citizens reject what I see as facts of Science and Evolution, but I do NOT dispute their right to do so. Unfortunately,I don't believe the harsh debate will harm Atheists but will rend apart the Christians as the school ciriculum issue heats up.What an unfortunate situation.Unfortunate in my view as it returns learning and reason back to the dark ages and gives some religionists the opportunity to think of OTHER religionists (and Atheists) as demons,devils,sinners,evildoers etc, instead of pointing their worry and disdain toward the group where it belongs, namely the Islamofacsists......As an Atheist, I don't consider myself an evil person, nor do I hate nor want to eliminate people of religion and believe it or not I am in favor of a 'moment of prayer' as desired in school and some 'morals' instruction in a Civics class..Maybe my appreciation of right and wrong was drummed in back in my formative days of religious training or maybe,hopefully,humans have a sense of morality that is 'evolved' into them,I only know that I personally regret seeing mankind take a setback in learning and progress over another devisive religious issue.I actually wish that ALL the religious people of ALL the religions of the world would remember and apply their own versions of 'The Golden Rule',as it's the best tenet for all, as a social doctrine, aside from any religion.....I hope my mindset on this matter doesn't sour my online brothers and sisters toward me, as I hold them in high esteem and mean no disrespect....Maybe we can hold this discord in abeyance and pull in harness as a team to uproot the poisonous growths infecting our world and threatening it's destruction...."We must all hang together, or we'll all hang separately"...Best Regards.
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6/27/07, 8:43 AM
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