Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: California Teachers Unions

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

California Teachers Unions - Again

University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes

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ROLL OVER FUN

The specter and promise of online education is perhaps nowhere more deeply felt than in California, where campus administrators and instructors are faced with a bloodletting. University of California officials have suggested that the system will have to innovate out of the current financial crisis by expanding online programs. (State house analysts agree.) Instructors, meanwhile, are terrified that this is code for cutting their pay, or increasing their workloads, or outsourcing their jobs to interlopers, or replacing them with online teaching software. ... [Full]

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Rodger the Real King of France 10/11/2011 11:19:00 PM 6 Comments

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TimO said...: "Hello my name is Rajeesh, skypeing from Bangladesh and I'm going to be teaching you American History..."

(serves the Unions right, but I pity my unborn grandchildren); 10/11/11, 11:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Sister Mary Micheal had 72 kids in my 2nd grade class. We all memorized the times tables up to 11, and we all could read.
She had no teachers aide, either. No computers, no calculators, just some chalk and erasers and blackboards.
I accept no excuse from any teacher. They can absolutely ruin the life of their students by failing to teach them to read. No one can be a success in life without being able to read. {with few exceptions, of course}

tomw; 10/12/11, 8:19 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: We were in the same class. I sat behind Pat Szatkowski.; 10/12/11, 8:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Yes, tomw. I went to public school with about 40 plus in class. We learned or flunked(are we allowed to use that word anymore?). Don't try to convince me to throw more money at schools to improve them.
mary; 10/12/11, 9:15 AM
Anonymous said...: My grammar school classes range from 50 to 55 students all 8 years.

Smaller class sizes may be better but only if you have enough good teachers to go around. We don't!

And just think: we could save one third the administrative costs if we returned to a 1 thru 8 and 9 thru 12 system. One of the reasons education costs are so high for so little results is that about half the money never is seen in the classrooms.

Freddie Sykes; 10/12/11, 1:39 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm fairly new here just been lurking in the background, really enjoy the site. My wife is a elementary teacher. She teaches a split 5th/6th grade class, about half the class is esl(english second language) the other half that she has this year have been in public schools til this point and are testing at 1-3 grade level in reading and literacy and if you can't read you can't do anything. Out of the 28 kids in her class 75% cannot even freaking read and she is supposed to bring them up to grade level after 5-6 years of failed education and passing them along. By the way it is illegal for her to give the Hispanic or other esl's anything less than 60% on anything, they cannot fail.
Its really hard to be optimistic when the next generation seems to be set up for failure.

dgfoot; 10/12/11, 4:21 PM

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

California Teachers Unions - Again

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