Posted on 04/26/2018 3:16:10 AM PDT by BBell
My daughter lives in Parker, Co which is supposed to have good schools. The lessons and the tests are all done on computers and the computer program even corrects the tests. My daughter wanted to know which math problems my granddaughter had gotten wrong unfortunately the teacher didn’t know because she doesn’t bother to look. She just logs the results. My daughter winds up doing the teaching and making up her own tests at home to see where her child is having difficulties in ALL her subjects.
This same teacher teaches that the United States is a democracy. Strange I thought we were a representative republic.
Here, the California Teachers Association is one of the very richest unions and constantly sways elections for governor as well as for propositions. They are an 800 lb gorilla that has been very instrumental in causing the extreme leftward shift of California government, resulting in a Democratic Party supermajority. They extort money from teachers and then spend every penny opposing any GOP candidate on the ballot.
It is highway robbery for all the conservative teachers. Sure they are a minority, but they still have their money extorted and gifted to the enemy. If every conservative teacher in the state could get their money sent to the GOP instead of Donkeys, California government would not be nearly as commie liberal as it is.
Dunno ‘bout jailing them, but if they strike, fire them.
All of them. Esp. the ‘administrators.’
Rehire the decent ones.
No Unions allowed.
Give them a pay raise and decrease their Cadillac benefits.
I like the way you think. I like the tiered system like some other countries have.
‘This is about salaries, pensions and health bennies’
Not to mention that they are striking for more pay when they only actually work for 8 months of the year (Add up summer vacation, Christmas vacation, mid-term vacation, Spring break and the numerous extra days off that teachers get throughout the school year). NOT ONE PERSON HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE VOLUMINOUS VACATIONS DAYS TEACHERS GET. They really should have to work at a real job. College Profs often get ‘sabbatical years’ where they get a whole year off, with pay, to do whatever they want. I had a friend who was a Prof who really hated having to actually teach. She requested sabbatical years every time she could, and then would write a book about her subject, making money from the books in addition to her Prof salary. GET RID OF TENURE, TOO. (Rant over for now)
Agreed. There is so much time wasted. Study hall? Gym class? Pep rallies? I think I could have knocked a year off if I could have been excused from all of this fluff.
blech!
Oh ok, so you are denying due process by summarily firing?
One of my pet projects in high school was dodging pep rallies.
I was fairly successful. Most of the time I could work a deal with auto shop to hide out or go get parts.
If you weren’t college bound, you weren’t important.
Protesting teachers in Kentucky got by with canceling school and then using school buses, against school board policy, to transport them to political rallies at the capitol in Frankfort. It’s well past time to quit treating teachers as though they deserve special treatment.
Same here. We took off. They always had the rallies at the end of the day. Really smart.
Escape from Stalag high school was tricky.
The driveway and parking lot were watched very carefully.
I could get a note for parts runs. You could count on the local HS gestapo demanding papers.
We were sneaky. And we really wanted to partake.
This is an excellent idea. I’m in CO. My middle child, 16, is adult and smart enough to get started on his life right now. He also could have been working for two years and saving money, but he can only work now that he is 16. Some kids don’t need to be coddled until they ate 30.
sure, add all the due process you want, just so all striking teachers are terminated. This is not a criminal trial. I dont see how due process figures in, but maybe that is required from all teachers. A termination hearing is fine with me.
I am not aware of the process to fire teachers, just that it takes an act of God to fire one for incompetence or laziness.
Put it this way. Suppose a white male teacher wearing a swastika on his shirt and a MAGA hat is caught on video squeezing a black female student’s breasts, and when she screams, he punches her in the face breaking her nose while screaming, “ni—er bit—!” Does he have due process or does he get summarily dismissed?
What if a whire male teacher brings an unloaded AR 15 to school and lets all the kids handle it, while he reads them stories of self defense shootings out of an NRA magazine, then ens class with a prayer session. Due process or summarily dismissed?
Just curious.
They can strike all they want. The children are better off the more time they spend away from these people.
Actually, I am wholly on your side. But the due process remark came to mind. I also think all the teachers should be “summarily” terminated. So terminate first, and they can have all the due process they want, on their own time and dime. :-)
perhaps you have already seen this article:
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-home-schooling-dcf-20180425-story.html
Knowing CT, they will want to step in and regulate homeschooling.
*four out of 10 children withdrawn for home schooling* is pretty big number.
Reports of homeschoolers and suspected *abuse* are not uncommon.
Someone with an axe to grind against homeschooling is always blowing in homeschoolers for suspected *abuse*.
There are occasions where real abuse happens, which I am not denying, but most cases of reports to social services are ludicrous.
And I know for a fact that many public school kids come from very abusive homes and nobody is blaming public schooling for it.
Nor is public schooling protecting the kids from the abuse.
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