Posted on 09/05/2007 4:50:53 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
There are mistakes I've made in the last month I wouldn't want repeated over and over for the rest of my life.
She wants to be a doctor one day, hopefully she will learn from this mistake and be a stronger person.
It's played out - taking any further is just petty.
OH, PUllllleeeaaaassseee.....sheesh....what a pile...
I can’t believe parents send kids to public schools.
If people don’t get serious about taking control of their childrens’ educations away from the preponderance of liberal, socialist “teachers” controlling our education system in this country - they are going to continue watching their kids grow up NOT RECOGNIZING any national boundary (especially the United States’ national boundary). That’s the dirty little secret that’s not so secret of the so-called intelligentsia of this country and the world. Witness: The Clinton crowd, poised to take total - and I do mean total - control of the world in just a few short months.
(Oh, I know, I know - all the self-described “good” teachers on this forum will loudly dispute this statement, but do they resist paying the teacher’s union dues and do they REALLY dare say ANYTHING that might ruffle the feathers of their fellow teachers in that union?) I have a relative who has enough guts not to join the teacher’s union, but even he is out-shouted by the hordes of lemmings that make up the majority of his co-workers.)
While there are a number of well-meaning and even dedicated individual teachers in the system, their efforts are undermined by that very system. This unfortunate girl really showed her public education.
Yeah, I've been hit with that one too. On another note, you'd better start including the /sarc tag because there are a few folks around here that... you know.
In a Right to Work state, such as Virginia, we are not required to join a union, therefore many don't. High union representation is seen in the Democratic strongholds of the state, not in the red counties.
So I don't know if I qualify as a 'good' teacher in your view, but I don't pay dues, never have, and I say whatever I feel is necessary to say to my fellow teachers. Out of about 50 teachers, less than 20 are in the NEA or AFT. More are in the AAE, which is a conservative, non-union, non-political trade organization.
I think it's gotten worse the last 20 years. About 1/2 the population are about one shade above worker bees or chimps. Look at prime time TV, entertainment shows about Brittany Spears and Larry Birkhead. This bubblehead is just another mindless drone fashionsita who will make a future on her back by wooing some fratboy at State U. I heard a good one from Dennis Miller. A majority of 18-29 somethings are dung M&Ms. Hard Candy shell with crap inside.
LOL did you see the one about ending women’s suffrage?
I was rolling laughing — it was — so WRONG!
Just imagine! 20,000,000 Mexicans have been able to locate the United States even without a map.
She said the girl didn't have a clue about the subject, and was just making up stuff to "answer" the question. One of the visuals was a repeated raising of one shoulder (shrug), as if to say, "I don't know."
Actually, a lot of teachers start wising up after some years in the gulag. I'm in LAUSD, and just yesterday in a schoolwide meeting I kind of went off about how the kids should have to pay for their books because by giving them all this stuff paid for by the taxpayers, we are not teaching them the value of anything. Of course, I was told that we can't do that. But the next day, at least three people came up to me and said, "I really agree with what you said, and even though the real problems are things they always say can't be changed, I was glad to hear someone say it."
And some of them, I know, were liberals when they started out all starry-eyed and foolish years ago.
Hey, you left out all of Central and South America in your response. What’s up with that??? Sounds like some kind of Northern Hemispherian bias (that extends halfway to the Tropic of Cancer or so).
That was a good one.
Wow! That post rates right on up there with the answer the gal gave at the pageant. Y’all kin?
I didn’t argue for that position. I’m just saying that she didn’t make that up all by herself.
That’s not my position. I was arguing against that position. I’m just saying that it wasn’t a completely ignorant statement. Many liberals think we are wrong to call ourselves Americans.
I know a girl who graduated first in her high school class (private catholic) who thought Alaska was an island.
I did see that one. Now that you’ve reminded me of it, maybe I should work that question into my repertoire of weed out questions for potential dates.
Anybody who has ever seen Jaywalking on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show should know that America is full of morons.
Do you think they might be editing out the ones who aren’t idiots?
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