tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post7478614114113771851..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: A New Low, If Such A Thing Were Imaginable, Let Alone PossibleJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-77603421958654885602010-10-03T15:29:02.509-04:002010-10-03T15:29:02.509-04:00The police have unions. The firefighters have unio...The police have unions. The firefighters have unions. Yet, whenever there is an uptick in crime or arson, nobody thinks to blame their respective unions--the solution is, usually, "We need more cops/firefighters."<br /><br />I wonder why the same cannot be said for teachers? Most of the time, the solution to bad test scores seems to be to attack the union and cram more kids into the unclemikehttp://www.facebook.com/unclemike13noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-80939152444694211662010-10-02T00:58:20.185-04:002010-10-02T00:58:20.185-04:00This was even better than the last few rants of yo...This was even better than the last few rants of yours I've read on this edumacation topic.<br /><br />I am moved to say that I am glad that I do not have children.<br /><br />Keep up the good fight, Mr. Riley (and Your Poor Wife). We are rooting for you both.<br /><br />I wish I could say more. I am trying to be optimistic, despite the powerful reasons you give me not to be.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-68344890534158297892010-09-28T21:35:37.084-04:002010-09-28T21:35:37.084-04:00Capitalism has a natural drive to find and exploit...Capitalism has a natural drive to find and exploit vulnerable public institutions, to privatize them and destroy them, to make... money. Each time the reason is "innovation." Out from under the repressive hand of the (public utilities commission, teacher's unions, securities and exchange commission, and so forth) we can "innovate." This has brought us collateralized debt JMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13908168627568595552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-12698378961123783162010-09-28T19:52:45.824-04:002010-09-28T19:52:45.824-04:00"and started creating opportunities for pover...<i>"and started creating opportunities for poverty-stricken children that go beyond getting them to do better on a math test?"</i><br /><br />Amen to that. Do these dipshits even bother to drive through the neighborhoods where some of these schools are located? A thousand Mr. Chips aren't going to fix those problems.scriptohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899049404620738944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-49534906436585546872010-09-28T15:09:49.187-04:002010-09-28T15:09:49.187-04:00Surely, you cannot think that we should be satisfi...Surely, you cannot think that we should be satisfied with students performing at "Basic" rather than "At or above proficiency"! All our children must work at that higher level or our schools have failed, failed, failed. Grade level should be defined as proficiency or even as perfection. Indeed, since I know that my child is perfect, as are all other children, the fact that arithmoquinehttp://www.currentlogic.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-15751936322701063672010-09-28T14:53:20.697-04:002010-09-28T14:53:20.697-04:00Yeah, that Times article was quite interesting, ac...Yeah, that Times article was quite interesting, actually.<br /><br />As for one of your questions, teachers have been blamed--and more administration and less unionizing have been recommended--for more than a century.Naryahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05369280617520806983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-81740686057102403472010-09-28T13:54:23.272-04:002010-09-28T13:54:23.272-04:00This NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/...This NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/education/28school.html?hpw is about Brockton (Mass.) High School, where featherbedding, change-resistant union teachers have brought the school from failing to outperforming 90% of Massachusetts schools in the past 10 years.Rugosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348056243298249939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-39585416453045358132010-09-28T13:51:59.545-04:002010-09-28T13:51:59.545-04:00The goal of the show was UNION BUSTING. How that ...The goal of the show was UNION BUSTING. How that got deleted from the first sentence, I don't know.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-87096215347529860462010-09-28T13:51:07.021-04:002010-09-28T13:51:07.021-04:00As you point out, the main purpose of the show was...As you point out, the main purpose of the show was , plain and simple. With an emphasis on Government Worker's Unions.<br /><br />Our 2% elite are (successfully) blaming Unions for the country's unemployment problems, all failing scores in all schools, and probably the weather.<br /><br />Unions and Government Workers (who go together in the Public School context) are in the gunsights of Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.com