Posted on 06/01/2020 7:00:31 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Bottom line, the unions have poisoned the pot, not unlike the leaders of various other institutions, FBI for example, that also promote leftism.
Agreed - but just follow the money.
The Biden Campaign has pledged to post bail for 'protesters". Antifa and BLM are bankrolled by the same Hungarian-born Nazi Collaborator who shall remain nameless.
If word reaches us that the Clinton Foundation is financing as well, it would not surprise me.
Predicted.
> Bottom line, the unions have poisoned the pot <
Let me add a bit more perspective. Again, I know nothing about how the universities operate.
But in the public schools, the unions have absolutely nothing to do with what is being taught there. Trust me on this. When courses of study are drawn up, union input is neither requested nor accepted.
As I noted earlier, in the old days teacher committees would pick curricula. No union officials would be on those committees. Now everything is chosen by idiotic educational consultants hired by the school board. Again, no union officials are involved.
I have plenty of beefs with teacher unions. But they are not to blame for the junk that is being taught today.
Now a bit of a side story.
I primarily taught physics. Well, torque is a central topic in physics. But I was not to teach anything about torque! Torque - for some reason - was not in the physics curriculum chosen for us by the experts. I taught torque lessons anyway...just when observers were not in the room.
Crazy, huh?
That’s interesting re: torque
it’s almost as though they don’t want the kids to understand how machines work.
They are involved, but it is a circuitous route. The good news is that physics is harder to poison than say history or economics.
“Public employee pension funds are sitting on trillions of dollars.”
Trillions of dollars of obligations, but very little on the other side of the ledger to pay those obligations. Public Employee Pensions, like Social Security, are devolving into pay as you go (paid by current taxpayers, that is) or, even worse, borrow as you go. It’s been a house of cards for decades and I am amazed that it hasn’t already completely collapsed.
> The good news is that physics is harder to poison than say history or economics. <
Ha! Youre right. And heres another advantage I had. Whenever an educational consultant would observe my class, he wouldnt know what the heck I was teaching anyway. Those guys were all education majors.
Which brings me to an important point. Heres the single best thing you could do to improve education in America: abolish university Schools of Education. Those places are worse then just useless. They are places of lunacy.
We can we do? Please dont say homeschool. I know that and we did. I mean what do we do with the fact that a huge % of our country are evil socialist communist leftists. Our country will fall if we dont fix this NOW!
Btw they are hitting suburbs today.
It depends on where you are, not ever state teacher’s union is the same. Some toe the complete radical education line others less so. Either way they know one depends on the other. They have a political marriage of convenience together they both get money & power. Split apart they know they would be much less successful.
It depends on where you are, not ever state teacher’s union is the same. Some toe the complete radical education line others less so. Either way they know one depends on the other. They have a political marriage of convenience together they both get money & power. Split apart they know they would be much less successful.
There are many ways, some of the best reforms came from a not so "right" think tank writer, Eric Hanushek , had a good book back in the early 90's and many more. He was a big believer in Merit pay for teachers, which I also support. It's a lengthy well thought out proposal..
Not my homeschooled kids and they’ve heard of my good relationship with a guy named Marvin from AL who’s grandaddy was a sharecrop farmer. We trusted each other with our lives(hung off a 16 story building together to install a sign) and our money. They also know that scum comes in all colors. Meanwhile my dad was a PG rated Archie Bunker. GD bearded freak, GD hippy, GD woman driver GD N_____. We’ve come a long way but the dems/msm/hollywood are the biggest hindrance and along with 8 years of Obama have set us back 40 years.
This was a good book: http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/making-schools-work-improving-performance-and-controlling-costs
Yes FReeper. Obvious since the sixties.
> hats interesting re: torque - its almost as though they dont want the kids to understand how machines work. <
When I first looked over the physics curriculum, I noticed that torque was missing. So I emailed the districts science supervisor, informing him of that. His reply was friendly enough. But he told me to teach the curriculum as is, period. Please dont tell him that I taught torque anyway. :)
I really dont think the educational consultants who made the physics curriculum deliberately meant to exclude torque. It was an oversight. But those consultants thought they knew so much more than us. So who were we teachers to offer any corrections?
IIRC most textbooks are chosen in some organization down in TX and they allow every special interest group to participate and that tilts it leftist. Kinda like membership stats of the UN
I suggest the suburbs hit back.
I suggest the suburbs hit back.
A good number of public school teachers and university teachers are envious assholes who want to appear virtuous and will instigate and take part in riots. It’s their cheap thrill and the longing to belong to a powerful collective that fights against the evil system of capitalism that has deprived them of their due income. They are cowards by nature but if they put on a mask they are emboldened by the large group. They participate in riots because rioting is VIRTUOUS and HEROIC. All RIOTS are for the good, for the little man, for the oppressed and down trodden. And RIOTS are a RIOT. It is exciting entertainment: better than paintball, better than taking in an adventurous movie... These people are bourgeois trying not to be bourgeois. Their life seems meaningless to them and this is a little kick start, an adrenaline rush to tie them over till the next meaningless act.
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