Here we go, gang, I'll keep this short and sweet.
...Though sometimes I can be a bit long - winded. SHOCKING, I know.
"It's all about the students".
If I EVER hear another public school teacher spout that nonsense while protesting, I swear I'm going to invent a "Vomit Gun®" that will automatically track the idiot teacher down, anywhere in the country, and spew the contents of my stomach on them immediately.
I know, I know, this is a big sacrifice on my part, but - it's all for the students. I could be anywhere, at any time, and have my stomach evacuated instantly. It would be uncomfortable, but worth it.
I would also design it so that anyone in my proximity would not catch any overspray. I would retch, and convulse, and probably lie there flopping like a fish with an electrical probe up its rectum, but really, no one would know what exactly was going on.
You see, I would have the vomit instantly transported into the 4th dimension, to reappear where necessary.
Okay, enough of the Vomit Gun®.
"It's all for the students".
These are the types of signs I've been seeing in Madison, WI, (coming soon to a neighborhood near you in Ohio, Indiana, New York, Michigan, etc…)
This was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt when the teachers up and split on their students. Yep.
I actually saw an idiot teacher on TV this morning trying to explain their absence with this gem:
"The students are getting a real world education in how to stand for what you believe in." Okay, that makes some kind of bass - ackwards sense, I guess.
In other words:
"Don't go to work, then protest to show the students and people that pay our salaries that we can bring the system to a grinding halt by not going to work then protesting, while you are paying our salaries".
Here's a concept: GO TO WORK, and protest AFTER work- you know, like the vast majority of people in this whole damn country!
As far as the sissy Democrat Senators - here's my tip:
"Don't go to work in a show of protest to show the students and people that pay our salaries that we can bring the system to a grinding halt by not going to work then protesting, while you are paying our salaries". Oh wait… Hmmm.
Here's a BRILLIANT sign. I bet you never saw this one before:
"If you can read this, thank a teacher" HA!
Here is some fun information:
In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the latest year available—only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating.
The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”
SOOO… perhaps the sign should say"
"Thank a teacher if you are lucky enough to be able to read this"
More fun, that proves, conclusively, that the connection between money spent and results is UTTER HORSESHIT:
Wisconsin public schools increased their per pupil expenditures from $4,956 per pupil in 1998 to $10,791 per pupil in 2008.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator the $4,956 Wisconsin spent per pupil in 1998 dollars equaled $6,546 in 2008 dollars.
That means that from 1998 to 2008, Wisconsin public schools increased their per pupil spending by $4,245 in real terms yet did not add a single point to the reading scores of their eighth graders and still could lift only one-third of their eighth graders to at least a “proficient” level in reading.
Okay. Enough for now.
I've got a lot more in me, but it can wait for another time.
Hugs n' kisses,
Stephen Charles
i can read and i thank my MOTHER; who taught me how to read.
ReplyDeleteNah, it's not for the "students" it's for the "children"
ReplyDeleteyou can justify just about anything with that, not just increases in schools, but health care, transportation, roads, pollution controls, you name it.
The Wisconsin school system needs to clean house and bring in good teachers from out-of-state to replace all of the protesting teachers. There are good teachers that are out of work and need a job. Go Governor Brown! Stick to your guns!
ReplyDeleteWalker was fine until he decided to try to take away the collective bargaining. He should really know what the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is and how it applies to local and state governments via the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause....
ReplyDeleteBut then again you don't always get elected for being smart... you just need money a...nd connections.
1st Amd: Gov't cannot interfere "with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances."
Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.
DFA- Very good point, and a pivotal case, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteIt should also be noted that Benjamin Gitlow was a member of The Left Wing Section, and felt that legislation was the wrong way to go…
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From West's Encyclopedia of American Law:
"The Left Wing Section clearly advocated the necessity of effectuating a Communist revolution by a militant and revolutionary socialism based on the class struggle. It viewed mass industrial revolts as the mechanism by which the parliamentary state would be destroyed and replaced by a system of Communist socialism."
I guess... if you're cool with that…
I do agree that freedom of speech IS very important.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/gitlow-v-new-york#ixzz1Eoq7O58Z
P.S. Thanks for the comments, all.
ReplyDeleteStephen Charles
Amen, Stephen. The comments on this blog are great. You might like my blog as well.
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