Feb 162010
From Businessinsider.com:
The union balked and refused the terms, so now she is firing the entire teaching staff of the high school and replacing them. This is yet another example of unions digging their own graves by refusing to negotiate or accept reasonable terms.
Now to extend this policy to government employee unions. California in particular would benefit greatly by slashing 90+% of their “workforce.”
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Good. I hope this is the beginning of many such purges.
A friend worked in the part of a university that trains teachers. One day, for the sheer hell of it, I called her at work in 2006 and said “Hey, I just lost my job. If teaching is secure, can I get loans to get the right degree?” She knew who I was, of course, and she laughed. Then she got really quiet and said that she’d been getting calls like that since about 2000. Part of the problem with those teachers is that they’re in those jobs for the same reason they would have taken a job at a Ford plant in 1960: it’s safe. What they are doing really doesn’t matter, and sometimes they don’t understand it. I’ve met certified teachers who hated children, who didn’t really enjoy what they were teaching, and who were just not suited to teach.
One word: PATCO.
Heard on the radio that Utah thinks 12th grade (senior year
high school) is a big waste of time in their opinion anyway
and now they are thinking about dropping it altogether….
hmmm.
Maybe Utah needs to scrap 12th grade. That would certainly fit into the general direction of what passes for education these days. There’s so much fussing over imbalanced percentages of the various ethnic groups graduating and getting high grades that it may be time to skip school completely once they can read and write. After a certain grade — say, 6th — the kids might be allocated to employment, vocational training, or college, totally at random so that no one can feel anyone is any better than anyone else.
Your radio lied to you. What Utah is considering doing is making 12th grade optional for those students who have *already* earned enough credits to graduate. You know, the kids who took extra classes, summer courses, advance placement classes, etc.
> After a certain grade — say, 6th — the kids might be allocated to employment, vocational training, or college, totally at random
I disagree. I think some placement testing after 6th grade would be useful… for those with the brains to benefit from further education, they should get it. others can be moved directly into vocational training. There’s no reason in the world why a 7th grader cannot hold down a job in fast food, retail or agriculture.
Ever notice how high school materials from 100 years ago seem to indicate a far higher level of education than equivalent materials from today? That’s because the *morons* were not wasting schools time and resources back then. Fewer kids were getting educated, but those who were, were gettign a better education.
Boot out about 20 million illegal aliens, and you’ll find that there’ll be a sizable job market for kids unwilling or unable to handle a solid high school education.
My parents retired to Florida after my sophomore year of high school, and it was a shock moving into the FL school system. Most of my junior year was spent going over elementary and middle-school level material. They were trying to cram stuff into the heads of students who had been “social promoted” for years so that they could pass the state literacy test.
The test itself was a joke, including (via multiple choice): pictures of a a few coins and paper bills, asking the student to select the amount of money; a picture of a check, asking the student which of the labeled areas should contain the amount of money, etc.
It wasn’t until my senior year (after the literacy test) that the non-science classes started getting back to college-prep level work.