Local high school teacher says her car was stolen by student (Michigan)

WSMH.com/Fox66 ^ | 9-12-19 | Femi Redwood

[gcparent]

The police haven’t filed charges.

[sergeantdave]

Cops can be useless if they’re controlled by leftist politicians.

Vote in a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff who is accountable to the voters. This sheriff has the legal, investigative and armed muscle to crush leftists, including dirty cops and politicians. During my sheriff’s tenure, he’s run two police chiefs out of the county.

[hanamizu]

Michigan did away with tenure years ago.

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I had no idea. In MO there is tenure after 5 years. Districts can fire a teacher with tenure, but they have to show cause. Before tenure, the teacher’s contract is simply not renewed. No reason has to be given whatsoever. My wife lost a teaching job she had for two years because a school board member’s daughter was looking for work. They sometimes offer a choice. You ‘voluntarily’ resign, thus giving up unemployment benefits, or you suffer the consequences of “not having had your contract renewed”.

[themidnightskulker]

Yep.
My wife is a teacher. They took her opportunity for tenure when she had 9 years in.
Michigan raided teacher pension funds, then demonized them for complaining.
Teachers are not allowed to strike(disrupting school days) {As far as I know, teachers are the only union in Michigan not allowed to strike.}
My wife's District has allowed her to receive a less than 1% raise/year,and had her pay frozen for about a decade.
Michigan requires 6( I think) credit hours to be taken by teachers to maintain their license(not reimbursed)over 5 years.( this one is easy because of many options.)
Teacher's yearly reviews are based on student test scores
(how would you like your performance to be based on tests taken by people who don't care?)
Teachers had to sue the State to get their pensions back; Michigan took the case all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court(took more than 7 years to get half a billion of stolen money back)
Now Michigan is talking about raiding their pension again to help balance the State budget.
It does not suprise me that the top-heavy district is refusing to do anything. Cream is not the only thing to rise to the top. Special-Ed students are a protected class who can do no wrong, and nothing ids their fault.( It also doeds not hurt that they bring in more money the the District from the State.)
Law and order is breaking down across the state, not just big cities. It does not suprise me that the Justice System is refusing to do its job.

Did not mean to be wordy. Thanks for letting me vent

Stay Free.

[hanamizu]

They took her opportunity for tenure when she had 9 years in.

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Some local schools make it a practice to deny tenure. You work for them for four years and then you’re out looking for work. The schools look at this practice as an advantage to them—beginning teachers get less pay and they don’t have to go through the trouble of showing ‘cause’ for getting rid of someone.

Missouri teachers are not allowed to strike by law, but teachers in StL and KC sometimes do anyway.

My teaching certificate is for ‘Life’ so I didn’t have to take the Mickey Mouse classes to retain it. For several years MO had certificates that had to be renewed but I think they’ve dropped that idea. To be honest, most of the ‘great new ideas’ in education have proven to be disastrous for both the students and the teachers.

Since I taught an ‘unimportant subject’—history, my students didn’t have to take tests on it, so I was immune to pressure on that score.

Happily, my state legislature, despite making noises, has thus far kept its mitts off MO teachers’ pensions.

[themidnightskulker]

It appears to me as a semi-insider that both the State and local district are actively trying to get rid of teacher’s unions(or at least blame them for State or District shortcomings due to neglegence, ineptitude, or apathy.

Don’t sell being a history teacher shory. Remember: Those who don’t pay attention to history are doomed to retake the course next year. ;^)

[themidnightskulker]

short.

Those who do not use spell check will be forced to correct their post spelling errors in the next post.

[hanamizu]

Don’t sell being a history teacher short

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No, don’t misunderstand, that was the official education stance, not mine (nor my students’). I was actually told that my role as a history teacher was to support the reading and math curriculum.

Those who don’t pay attention to history are doomed to retake the course next year.

One year before I landed a real job, I subbed in the local districts. One time I subbed for the high school history teacher. There was one poor soul who had to pass history classes to graduate. Because he consistently failed history—he hated, hated, hated it, he found himself taking 3 history classes in his senior year. Don’t know if he graduated.

[themidnightskulker]

You are a good person. No offence meant.

I was just putting up a smart-alekey statement that my Highscool history teacher said once.

[JayAr36]

Local high school teacher says her car was stolen by student (Michigan)

That car wasn’t stolen. It was just the hood rent-a-car program in that area.

[hanamizu]

Being a history teacher was very liberating. Virtually every teacher in the school (with the exception of music, art, and gym) had to sweat the yearly tests. But I didn’t. Because it took so long to score and return the results, the kids were off to high school before we knew how they did. They suffered no ill consequences for low scores, only their teachers—but not me.

Because of ‘No Child Left Behind’, every three years the number of kids who had to score ‘proficient’ or better kept increasing to ridiculous levels—before it was abandoned it was going to be 100%!

Of course anyone who knew anything about anything knew that through the tyranny of the Bell Shaped Curve, 50% were going to be ‘below average’. Only way to alter that was to keep dumbing down the tests until they measured nothing, or cheat.

[themidnightskulker]

Michigan ties funding to year over year improvements on the ACT. All seniors must take it. (or the MEAP for younger students. If there is no improvement, you get less funding.
(I have never understood this.) My wife works in one of the better districts in the state, so it is incredibly hard to show improvement every year.
She is only a couple of years from retirement and the kids are almost through high school, so hopefully it wont be an immediate problem for us for too much longer.

[mumblypeg]

It was, after all, a nonviolent crime, so what’s she belly achin’ about?
She needs to just shut up & surrender her car along with her white privilege.

This is sarcasm, for those who need to be told.

[Oatka]

"Toth says she asked administrators why he was back in school. She says administrators say they can’t deny him the right to an education."

Or, evidently, the right to steal cars.

[trebb]

Has she pressed charges?
The story said she’s upset neither the school or police have taken action...

[gcparent]

You have to pass a history regents exam in nys to graduate. It covers several yrs of high school work. It is the hardest regents exam.

[hanamizu]

You have to pass a history regents exam in nys to graduate.

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I thought I read that the Regents’ Exams were being phased out because they are “racist”.

[gcparent]

It’s under discussion because too many minorities esp in NYC can not pass them think exams math science history english.
If you are special ed you can get a local diploma but it’s worthless. I took regents exams in 1969 around long time. Some states apprec history. Too bad yours doesnt.

[gcparent]

About 95 percent of kids at my kids high school got advanced regents diplomas. You take additional exams in math science foreign language.

[AppyPappy]

She files the charges.