Posted on 01/26/2014 1:42:37 PM PST by rey
Nine California public school students are suing the state over its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections that the plaintiffs say keep bad educators in classrooms.
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If you retain them, the tax payers have to pay even more for students who really don’t care.
True, FR is based in Fresno. That we have likeminded folks
from all across the country trashing all of us ain’t fun. It is
like the gun grabbers saying that every weapon owner is
a murderer in the making.
How about we start randomly drug testing all government public school teachers, politicians, cops, DA’s, mayors, city councils, city workers, county workers, congress, POTUS, and everyone else in government?
“True, FR is based in Fresno. That we have likeminded folks
from all across the country trashing all of us ain’t fun. It is
like the gun grabbers saying that every weapon owner is
a murderer in the making.”
Don’t give them the satisfaction of any response. The need to take a look in their own backyard. I considered a move to Texas years ago, and I didn’t because it isn’t the glittery “beacon of Democracy” that the folks there would have you believe that it is. In the town where I had planned to move, my company’s management asked the “city fathers” if the town’s public swimming pool were “integrated.” The answer was” Why sho, cose the N-——er’s don’t come cause they know they ain’t welcome.” I’ve never heard anyone say that here in California.
Point is, we’re all going to hang together or each of us will hang separately. This nonsense about this state or that being a scourge, leaves out the large percentage of the population there who are good, decent, conservatives. Further, badmouthing is an idiot’s way of “communicating” his angst about a situation that he has no means of controlling. Kudos to Jim that he’s here in California doing what he can to make a difference. That should be everyone’s goal, because if California goes under as some would like to see, the rest of the country will not be far behind.
I have complete admiration for your attitude. However, some
folks make those blanket comments out of pure ignorance.
I wouldn’t say that all of them get satisfaction out of my
responses but you may be correct about some of them. Others
get my point. As you are an old time Californian you know as I
do that things have not always been as they are today. Our
liberals are not all homegrown but have come from some
of the the same states as our conservative critics. You might
say their gain has been our loss. Also, there seems to be a
slight tinge of animosity stemming from all the publicity given
to California over the past 50 years. Truth is a lot of that
glitter isn’t homegrown either. It too is a product of transplants
thinking they have reached the promised land. Fact is we
natives don’t look at it that way because we don’t have much
history living in other places to compare. Cheers.
“Fact is we natives don’t look at it that way because we don’t have much
history living in other places to compare. Cheers.”
I suppose a forum like FR, like being involved in a”volunteer” organization (or a political party for that matter) “allows” one to “rub shoulders” with a myriad of personality types and intellectual levels. But here on FR, with the notable exception of what I will call, for lack of a better word, “state baiting,” there appears to be a group of people who seek a better place for all us here in the US. But where it comes to the “blame game,” there are a lot of folks here who like to jump in with both feet. Their simplistic solution is to “eliminate” all the “bad states,” thereby “saving” the rest of the country from the impending doom of Californication or some other state-Ication. And from what I have seen, a lot of them seem to gravitate to people for elective office who are so intemperate and out of touch as to be incapable of being elected excepting perhaps in some small corner of their “society” where the “behavior and values” seem rational. They seem to see these people as “the real conservatives.”
Anyway, I consider it one of my life’s choicest blessings for my parents to have settled in California to build their family. We’ve just had our 55th High School Reunion this past Fall, and the one thing that everyone said (and they are scattered literally around the globe) was just how lucky we were to have grown up in California in the 1950’s. As you correctly point out, the decay in this state came largely from without. Actually, it had its seeds in WWII, with all the “migration” here to build ships and aircraft. I mean who would go home to The South with it’s lousy weather when you’ve seen how it is here? As for the “Californication” charge, I heard from a Freeper from CO who is in auto repair. He said that if his business is indicative of where the “migrants” to CO are coming from, it isn’t California, but rather Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the East Coast. So all this nonsense about CA liberals poisoning their states, it just that. But you watch when this post hits, they will be there with their “amen chorus” about just “how wrong” you and I are. As you said Cheers. On it’s worst day, CA is a whole lot better than any other place on the planet, and I’ve seen a very large piece of it in my travels. And I will bet you that Jim Robinson has no intention of packing up and leaving Fresno either.
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