Posted on 02/07/2017 1:05:29 PM PST by billorites
Isn’t there a form somewhere she can fill out for butthurt?
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They are a menace. The AFT, PBA and FOP as well as AFSCME are unions which are a conspiracy against the public interest. Government employees should NOT be allowed to unionize. The Government should be a right to work employer.
Common COre is a strange thing. Its good and bad. If you are a weak school it brings out the problems. You can see a standard that you must achieve. However if you are an above average school forget about it. The education will bring you down.
The reality is that there is no common. Not in any state, and not in any classroom. Kids are different. And they should be educated in a fashion that allows quicker kids to move at their rate. And slower kids need the help they need to get to an acceptable level. Remembering that every kid can’t get to an acceptable level. Thats why software is so helpful. Kids can move at different rates.
This is my fourth year of not substituting in a public school urban environment, after 7 years of that adventure. Common core was just coming in. It's a nightmare. Teachers are told not just what to teach, but how to teach it. It's very difficult to time your teaching to take advantage of it when a student is ready to break through. Everything is manipulated.
I agree with everything you say. That's why I'm saying that it doesn't seem that the unions really want to get rid of Common Core. If they'd stood on that issue, they could've DEMANDED someone that was 100% states rights for curriculum and other education initiatives.
I agree.
Another factor is the reliance on testing. Many students will struggle, but then at some point it will come together if you nourish their confidence. The constant pressure to pass a test short circuits that process.
Yes!! Agreed!
Restore local control! School choice!!
Her job should be easy!
The teachers’ unions made a cute little graphic saying that she didn’t have an “educayshun” degree! LOLOLOL like that would be “qualifying!”
The leftist whistlers are taking a mass sashay past the graveyard.
I fully understand the problem a lot of people see with public unions but from what I saw during my teaching career, without a union, very few teachers would be able to make a career in the field.
The top administrators of every district I dealt with were notorious for bringing "their people" with them when they made a move to a new district. A faculty wouldn't even be a speed bump for these climbers as they went about entrenching themselves in thier new position.
When you knew what you were looking at, it was easy to see how these moves affected the lower and mid level administrators in the new districts.
Given the opportunity, I have little doubt that large segments of established faculties in school districts all over the country would literally be torn apart as often as administrators move-which seems to be about every 5-6 years.
Hard way to run a quality district.
Kinds of like the political roundtable on TV (both Dem and GOP) scoffing at Trump for not having any PhD’s as his advisors.
Like the majority of unions these days, the "union" (i.e. union leaders) don't really give a damn what the union members want.
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But it’s more likely we’ll now hear the same trashing of public schools that the disrupters
They are failing because of leftist policies. They deserve to be trashed.
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Even if the ‘public school’ system were a success, they are antithesis to the ideals of our Constitution\ideals: anti-Free Market\choice\nuclear-family.
Remove any/all property taxes and make the parent(s)\guardian(s) pay for the service as any other.
Thomas Massie (R-Ky) has already introduced a bill to end the Department of Education, and believe me, it doesn’t take a PhD to do that!!
I could do it if Trump gave me the opportunity!!
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