tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post4382663291528610999..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Hey Professor: There IS a War On TeachersDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-69981178492356383222014-07-23T03:21:03.256-07:002014-07-23T03:21:03.256-07:00The ad below that post said Become a teacher in 11...The ad below that post said Become a teacher in 11 months! <br />Bad teachers are usually promoted to administration in <br />LA, where it's ground zero for what awaits teachers . We are in a Kafkaesque nightmare, a term I used when I was put in Deasy's dungeon after reporting an abusive colleague and noncompliance in SPED. I am mandated by las but the district isn't. Neither is the union. But the beleaguered chairs at our schools tend to be getting ground up in this because they are earnest, <br />I know we need solidarity, but we cannot trust our Judas unions. I think we must MAJE some sort of statement before summer is lost. If we don't none of it matters not in LA. Hopefully others will learn from the implosion over here.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05831480206116656603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-22477666707146183332014-07-05T08:52:58.909-07:002014-07-05T08:52:58.909-07:00Off topic but in relation to that Tom Lehrer video...Off topic but in relation to that Tom Lehrer video clip. Von Braun was a Nazi and even belonged to the SS ( I think he was an honorary member of the SS). Mort Sahl once made the clever quip about Von Braun that he aimed for the stars but missed and hit London instead. Von Braun was in charge of the Nazi rocket program which means that he was in charge of all the slave labor used, abused and worked to death constructing all the rocket manufacturing sites above and below ground. One historian estimated that more people were killed manufacturing the V-2s than were killed in their actual impact areas in the UK and other countries. Von Braun should not have been lionized he should have been brought to justice.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-55773760450119612392014-07-03T22:26:16.238-07:002014-07-03T22:26:16.238-07:00Hanushek pays what he's paid to say. Think of ...Hanushek pays what he's paid to say. Think of him as an actor mouthing his lines, assume no sincerity and don't bother arguing.<br />carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-32578180595401883242014-07-03T11:07:47.113-07:002014-07-03T11:07:47.113-07:00Hanushek mentions nothing about the fact that teac...Hanushek mentions nothing about the fact that teachers don't hire themselves, don't observe, rate and evaluate themselves. All that is up to the principals and administrators. If there are supposedly grossly ineffective teachers in the classroom, then don't the administrators and principals bear any damn responsibility? Oh wait, it's so much more fun blaming unions, tenure, seniority and LIFO. There's no war on teachers?? Ha, ha, too funny except that it's not funny and the war is deadly serious.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-67283089341820496972014-07-03T10:58:59.558-07:002014-07-03T10:58:59.558-07:00"Since 2000 he [Hanushek] has been Paul and J..."Since 2000 he [Hanushek] has been Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,[1][2][3] an American public policy think tank located at Stanford University in California." Well, as Paul Krugman would say, Hoover is a think tank that takes the think out of think tank. It's a far right wing libertarianish propaganda tank. I'm so shocked.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.com