Posted on 12/28/2016 6:09:56 AM PST by magna carta
Sounds FAKE from teacher union, damn the children folks.
you will still get communist core. it ain’t going anywhere unless they can excise ESSA and stop the federal bribery techniques. the corps love marxism-they do not want to invest in a classroom where they read Beowolf and write a paper on pagan elements.
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I am betting that your church does not have a private school. Am I right?
The truth is that in many counties the government schools are the largest single employer in the county. By far! Then add to that the vendors and their employees that service the schools. These are the people sitting in the church pews. And...Few ministers will bite the hand that put money in the collection plate.
A teacher comes out of a school "system" that is intentionally and by design socialistic.
If a teacher wants a job, she or he must toe the proffered line or fail the graduation test that will open job doors.
The Superintendent of the school district is god of the school district and has learned well to regulate behavior, thus monitoring and "progressing" the socialist agenda.
Stick around and don't piss the super off and you're "tenured"
US public High Schools graduate snowflakes and they go on to snowflake finishing school. marry other snowflakes and make baby flakelettes.
No, I have the right target, public sector unions are the scourge of the earth.
I would outlaw all of them and fire all their members. The best of the bunch could be rehired sans the union.
If you stand outside and ask for a write in vote and chat it up that the problem(s) in America start in the school, thinking people will actually vote for you.
I'm proof of the tactic.
Once inside with the other socialist, long in the tooth board members, word will get out that there's a new kid on the block ... you'll have a voice and an influence.
Hopefully ( I have been instrumental in one election of a born again Conservative), the school board can be taken over by the true community and not the sycophant rubber stampers now on too many school boards.
Remember ... Common core was voted on by thousands of school boards across the US
The unions have that game rigged as well.
The teachers in district “A” fund candidates to run next-door in district “B”, and vice-versa.
Then each returns the favor by voting “yea” on the entire union wish list.
Facebook sucks in every way; it is run by degenerate America haters. I don’t go there.
If it is not restricted, why not post it here in it’s entirety?
Have you heard the term “regulatory capture”. It means that any board, appointed or elected will sooner or later be controlled by the interests they are supposed to be regulating. The concept is that nobody cares who the 5th member of the school board is. And if its an ex-teacher who happens to be collecting a teachers pension, some say she knows something about teaching. Then add a guy who has a degree in education but made his money selling school books. And of course a guy who works for the law firm that represents the school. And the insurance agent who has a very large policy with the school. And a women who works for Wells Fargo and wants to float bonds that are backed by the school board.
So where are the parents that have children in the school? Well, they are busy. They work and have kids and are young. And besides all these guys sound like they know something about being on a board.
A charter school board is normally filled with parents, a requirement. And its business board has people who donate to the school. I am not saying that it can’t happen but regulatory capture seems to happen less often at charter schools.
As an elected official, no different than the President Of The United States (duly elected by the people), you have much POWER.
Evgery one is afraid to stand up against these people but they are all without a clue in the same manner as we here in FR understand the left to be clueless and cowardly.
The school board MUST be a band of lefty brothers to survive, so we have to infiltrate and change the system ....
Superintendents can be voted out.
government schools are evil
The hiring process for public school teachers is incredibly corrupt.
One district around here received 3000 resumes for a single opening. The job went to a relative of a school board member.
My co-worker has a neighbor who is a very good math teacher. He took a one-year sub position at a local district when that teacher went on maternity leave. She decided not to come back. He thought he would be offered the job based on his very good performance and test scores.
Instead the board opened it up to other applicants and.....you guessed it....hired a girl fresh out of college who was related to a school board member.
This guy is now a private tutor, and most of his clientele are kids from this school where the girl they hired evidently can’t teach math.
This explains why we keep hiring such low-quality individuals that you see “teacher has sex with students” stories in the news every other week.
Teacher unions have plans to prevent everyone except radical liberals from getting on school boards.
They almost always have school board elections when nothing else is being voted on. They make sure that only liberals get elected.
I’m in SW Pa ... same thing here ... where are you ?
Around here, the school board is not on the side of the community, parents, or children. People run on one agenda, then go over to the dark side. The problem is that the district is so large that a candidate of any one interest group doesn't have a say.
Education should be local and small. The state should have a minimum of course requirements. For poorer communities, the state should provide no-strings-attached money.
Vouchers, Charter Schools, closing failing local schools make the problems worse. Hold the community and parents accountable for their small-community local schools. What's happening now is that those who are most likely to contribute to a positive school environment, both parents and students, are being enabled to leave. If an opt out is necessary, online public school education with the students having access to local extracurricular activities is enough of one.
That's my take. Anything the gov "fixes" just gets worse. The further the "solution" is from the people, the more likely it is to do more harm than good.
JMHO, based on a lot of years spent teaching, in every conceiveable environment.
Way back, the teacher unions served a purpose for good education. The problem was when they got involved in politics, in many places having enough clout to handpick winning candidates. If involvement in and contributions to political campaigns were outlawed, the unions might have a chance to getting back to promoting excellence in education. JMHO
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