Teacher of the year? Why not get your class size down to something you can handle: perhaps one teacher per student? I'd like to know what her IQ is.
Posted on 10/23/2013 4:33:19 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
That line in a speech during the annual Education Minnesota conference last week put Megan Olivia Hall, the state’s teacher of the year, in the line of fire.
Hall, a grade 7-12 science teacher at Open World Learning Community in St. Paul said:
I think about all of the teachers in the St. Paul Public Schools who gave up our cost of living raise in 2010 in an effort to limit class size in our district. Teachers are persistent and responsible and generous because we believe every child in America, regardless of circumstances of birth, deserves a decent chance at a good life.
From where I stand, teachers create equality of opportunity, from where I stand, teachers are a profession that takes a gritty patriotism, and from where I stand, teachers are the last line of defense against the tyranny of the 1 percent.
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Even a blind pig finds a truffle on occasion.
The “Tyranny of the 1%” she speaks of is THIS ADMINISTRATION!
Yeah, because she’s talking about the 1% of “Americans” who inhabit that swamp between Maryland and Virginia.
Speaking of tyranny, I wonder how she feels about teachers in Michigan being forced to sue to escape their marxist unions.
Obama and cronies are the 1%
the tyranny of those who actually pay taxes?
Teacher of the year? Why not get your class size down to something you can handle: perhaps one teacher per student? I'd like to know what her IQ is.
Is IQ still measured? I hope years ago as children we were not allowed to know ours.
$64k/year to indoctrinate kids.
And I bet if I told her that the 1% used to earn 65% of all income but under Obama the top 1% earned 93% of all income she would just call me a racist.
Where the Internationale is our fight struggle song and it doesn't matter who takes the tests, it matters who grades the tests.
Mr. niteowl77
She’s upset about her COLA while the people who pay her have to worry about such trivia as their homes and jobs./s
The true tyranny that we have is that of the government class.
Both of you are right. Just like the politburo in the USSR, we now have a ruling class, and these are truly the 1% (including those in the news and entertainment industries who control the public message - i.e. propaganda). On the other hand, the ‘other’ 1%, who get blamed for everything by the left, include those who have worked hard, been successful, and pay the taxes that keep the real 1% rolling in money and power. What a country...
But experienced teachers are part of the 1%
I won’t state the county where I grew up...but if you rounded up the general class of the winners and losers....it’s a simple mix.
There’s around two hundred folks in the county that pull in $100,000 or more a year. Some are lawyers...some are bankers...some are real estate players...and a couple are farmers.
In the next group of $50,000 to $100,000....around sixty percent of the teachers in the county fall into this category. They wouldn’t want the general public to know their full income and benefit package....but after age forty...they are clearing a fair amount of money. If they continue to age sixty-five...most are pulling in three-thousand a month on their pension and another $1,800 on their social security.
If anything...we are proving the point over and over....that it’s time to allow smart kids to test and leave school at sixteen, and trim back the educational wasteland that they’ve developed.
They get a hell of a lot more than that! It is usually around 80-90K. Their benefits are pretty darned cushy...
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