Posted on 05/14/2010 11:29:17 AM PDT by big black dog
As their country and state go bankrupt, some New Jersey teachers react to a proposed payfreeze with profanities, fat jokes and comparisons of their governor to Pol Pot and the KKK.
Robert Reboli, a basic skills and remedial English teacher at Madison Avenue Elementary School in Irvington, has some advice for his fellow educators as they prepare to fight Gov. Christopher Christie’s proposed state budget: “Never trust a fat fuck.”
That’s what Reboli posted on a Facebook group called New Jersey Teachers United Against Governor Chris Christie’s Pay Freeze, which has more than 57,000 fans -- a powerful grass roots tool as the teachers union fights Christie’s proposed state budget.
But comments posted on the social networking site – most of them during school hours -- often get personal as they exercise their first amendment rights.
“How do you spell Asshole? C-H-R-I-S C-H-R-I-S-T-I-E,” wrote Peter Griffin, the supervisor of the music department at Hopewell Valley Regional High School. “To those of you who voted for this fat piece of shit, shame on you!”
Beth Berzanskis, who makes $83,000 a year as an elementary school librarian in East Brunswick, calls Christie's budget cuts "rediculous" (sic).
A Newark elementary school teacher wants her colleagues to encourage students to write protest letters to Christie. “My fourth graders will be writing,” said Andrea Hamilton.
Some educators try to be constructive. Jeffrey Lawson, a science teacher at Milltown High School, is proposing a 3% sales tax on clothing in order so that the state can afford to pay teachers. And some teachers, like Rockaway High School math teacher Toni Clark, try to explain what’s going on.
“Do not agree to pay a freeze,” Clark says. “It will in turn be a pay cut when you are giving (part) of your salary for health care."
But others are just mean.
“He is such a liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. And many of you bought his crap. Thanks to all who voted for him and his bullshit,” wrote Angelic Delcher, a middle school teacher in Egg Harbor Township.
Chris Larson, an art teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, says of Christie: “this piece of crap should not be allowed by any type of school to set one foot on campus, college, high school or day care. He is raping the educational system. We just got our proposed budget and it doesn’t look good."
Camden County Vocational and Technical High School biology teacher Marlene Brubaker says that “KingKrisKristy is copying from another famous dictator: Pol Pot, who got rid of teachers and intellectuals and turned the population against them. NJ has its own Khmer Rouge, it’s your Legislature.”
“King Kris Krustie is quite the trickster. He has taken our the democratic process, and runs the state of NJ by executive proclamations. Your legislature is full of KKK's yes-men. They bow to his will. They all need to be kicked out of office. I always called NJ the 'Nazi state' I used to be joking,” Brubaker wrote. “Where did he graduate from, get them to revoke his degrees.”
Another Pol Polt reference posted by Brubaker: “He reigned in terror, his target was teachers and intellectuals. They were either killed or put into forced labor...King Kris Kristy is headed in this direction...this is hardly hyperbole .. He wants to roll back the clock to the days where teachers lived with a family in the community, where we had to be single! Where we were the smartest kid in the 8th grade. Remember when married women got fired when they showed their baby-bump? My mom lost her job, when I was 6 mo. in utero...welcome to the fiefdom of KingKrisKristy, where going back to the 'good ol days' is the law of the land."
“WTF? Seriously? This man makes me ill!” said Nicola Jefferey, who teaches second grade in Elizabeth.
Amelia Tartaglia Reganis, a pre-school teacher employed by the Pemberton Board of Education says that Christie’s mother “was supposedly a teacher, so I guess she put the hammer down on her darling son, Chris, when he was a kid. I think she must have hidden the Twinkies from him. So now Christie is on a witch hunt and against the teachers and eating tons of Twinkies!”
“In the NJ kingdom of King Kris Kristie, the King has proclaimed, abolish all STARS programs, therefore, all children shall be left behind, and increase the King's caloric intake for one govenor (sic) with a big behind!,” Reganis wrote in a subsequent post.
A school psychologist for the Kearny Board of Education, Nicole Marino, suggests that teachers might retaliate against students if they are unhappy with the governor. “Christie is going to take that away from all of us. Either support us or take your comments somewhere else. The last group of people you want educating your children is those that feel they are undercompensated and underappreciated and most of all discriminated against,” she wrote.
The teachers and their self serving union have jumped the shark. Turns out it really is not about the kids, is it? Maybe their union can win the garbage collection contract.
Marvelous...
If the comments wwe see in the article are anything to go by, these ‘teachers’; are:
IDIOTS,
UNEDUCATED,
LACKING IN CIVIC VALUES,
GREEDY,
UNCARING,
IN SORE NEED OF A SPELL IN THE RUBBER ROOM.
See, “education” is ALL about them and their pay and pensions.
NJ teachers are overpaid and underworked and pay zero for their $25K benefits for life.
Here you can see if the “teachers” actually teach and how much they get. Many contracts limit them to 3 hours and 20 minutes of classroom time per day. Not bad, right? Except if you are a taxpayer.
http://php.app.com/edstaff/search.php
Fire every teacher in the state at the end of the school year. Designate educational employment, within the state, as non-union forming entities. Have them all re-apply. They don’t like it... To quote Robert Reboli; “Never trust a union F@!k.”
These liberals are all in favor of redistribution of wealth, as long as its not their wealth that gets redistributed, cut or frozen.
Christie is the MAN. Love this guy. The NJEA is showing their true colors, they don’t care about kids just themselves. In the private sector employees would take pay freezes to save jobs. Why can’t public employees do the same. Will teachers lose their intelligence following a pay freeze or not work as hard? If that is the case they should be let go anyway.
Bring it on commies. Guess what, I have a degree too, and you can’t take it away!
““How do you spell Asshole? C-H-R-I-S C-H-R-I-S-T-I-E,” wrote Peter Griffin, the supervisor of the music department at Hopewell Valley Regional High School. “To those of you who voted for this fat piece of shit, shame on you!” “
Peter Griffin ? “I am calling on YOU ... to help me beat my wife!”
What an intelligent, respectful man. Hey, a bit of my experiences with unions:
A Union is a client of mine. There I get to see all sorts of people I would rather not know. Including, but not limited to:
Militant lesbians
Militant black power supporters
Militant Commies
re-effing-diculous left-over hippies
the nastiest group of Fairfield County HausFraus there are
And let me tell you, Their “Business language” involves dropping f-bombs like punctuation. These people talk to me as if I’m some inmate. The dirtiest mouths on these people ever.
Their language is a precursor to the conversation they are about to engage in. They are surely some of the stupidest people on earth. And possibly, with the help of a moon base, the solar system. And if we shot Obama out of a cannon and had his frozen corpse rear-end Voyager-1, They would still be firmly in first place as stupidest people in the damned galaxy.
“Many contracts limit them to 3 hours and 20 minutes of classroom time per day.”
Wow, they have to double-up on “teachers” just to cover one day of classes.
It boggles the mind.
Parents should demand that the teachers making these outrages comments be fired. A person filled with that much hatred does not deserve being in a school we are paying for. Christie should pull a Reagan and FIRE THEM ALL. In with the new and out with the old.
I was in a meeting with some teachers last week and was very amused when this subject came up. They feel that they can go in the private sector and make more money with better benefits?
“These are very ‘special’ people...
Fire them.”
I agree.
Please.
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