This is a good development.
Back in the 1970s, in a CA high school, I had a driver’s education teacher who was an alcoholic. It was rumored that he drank Irish coffee in class, which he brought in a Thermos.
His job was, of course, protected by tenure.
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I'm a newly elected (Nov) school board director and tonight we vote to raise or not .. taxes.
In all the literature I've received since November, there has not been one word ... NOT ONE .. about readin', ritin' n' 'rithmetic.
I HAVE attempted to read the public school assoc magazine a few times ... but for the same reason I'm not reading the Wall Street Journal about stocks and mergers and offerings ... I don't (can't) read the school mag.
EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE IS ABOUT MONEY AND THE "PROBLEM" OF TEACHERS' PENSIONS !!!
How much is one plus one ?
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So my vote tonight is a no because we'd be voting to raise my and my neighbors taxes to fund a teacher's pension and not provide a penny towards education.
As much as I love Star, even HER article has nothing to do with the title of her column ...
... because education is digesting one plus one to the point you can algorithm the vernacular of the hypothesis of a hypotenuse, get a good paying job and provide for the furtherance and betterment of yourself and America ... not finance a teacher's retirement.
nor provide band uniforms, nor build a new gym because the older one is out of date, nor replace the old AC, nor ....
When they bring up the subject of new text books, I'll read each one cover to cover before voting ..... it's how I got through school ...
I brought my books home and actually read them in the bathroom (yep ... I'm full of it ... always was ... ), so when it came time for me to study and do a paper on chapter ten, I glanced at it and got a B.
I actually educated myself in the bathroom because Miss Baron taught me to read and lovr it.
How much is one plus one ?
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And until they change THAT or decide it is no longer needed ... the answer is no ... we don't need any more money
for
education.
Smoke screen?- to be able to fill the schools with teachers that won’t object to Common Core?
Getting rid of tenure - which never should of been - is good...but I smell a rat, especially as it comes from Calif.