rawstory.com — A teacher at a failing Rhode Island school where he and all his colleagues were fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.
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swoop187Mar 19, 2010
Its the kids fault. A teacher can only do so much but at the end of the day its up to the students to pay attention, do their homework and pass the class. This all comes down to students not paying attention. I mean its not that complicated to teach kids what they should know. They just have to be willing to learn it, retain it and prove they know it. Now these little s**ts are either stupid or they're not paying attention. Your average untrained layman can teach a f**king kid basic s**t. I have two teachers in my family and I can tell you their number one complaint is "these kids just don't want to learn." They make it clear these kids do what they want and teachers have no means to discipline these kids, they control the classroom. Oh and both of the teachers in my family have been assaulted by their students to boot. The kids don't want to learn, they're out of control and any measure taken to MAKE these kids behave is strongly opposed by the bleeding hearts. Its your prototypical catch-22.Oh, an I know exacatly how it is because back in the day I was a hard nosed little punk that was a pain in the ass in the classroom. Of course this was soft ass liberalism when teachers could actually punish a student or kick them out of school for being a pain in the ass.
leftiscorruptMar 19, 2010
The Unions aren't taking s**t from Obama, unlike the Congressional Progressives who roll over no matter how they get f**ked over.I'm still disappointed by Dennis Kucinich voting to sell out America.<a class="user" href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/18/progressives/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ ...</a>Politico's Ben Smith yesterday suggested that one important aspect of Rahm Emanuel's health care strategy -- to ignore the demands of progressives on the ground that they would fall into line at the end no matter what -- has been vindicated. Smith points to a new poll showing near-unanimous support for the bill among liberals as well as the fact that not a single progressive member of the House (not even Dennis Kucinich) will oppose this bill even though the prime progressive objections were ignored.For almost a full year, scores of progressive House members vowed -- publicly and unequivocally -- that they would never support a health care bill without a robust public option. They collectively accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars based on this pledge. Up until a few weeks ago, many progressive opinion leaders -- such as Moulitsas, Howard Dean, Keith Olbermann and many others -- were insisting that the Senate bill was worse than the status quo and should be defeated. But now? All of those progressives House members are doing exactly what they swore they would never do -- vote for a health care bill with no public option -- and virtually every progressive opinion leader is not only now supportive of the bill, but vehemently so. In other words, exactly what Rahm said would happen -- ignore the progressives, we don't need to give them anything because they'll get into line -- is exactly what happened. How is that not vindication?Just consider what Nate Silver wrote yesterday in trying to understand why progressives have suddenly united behind this bill, in a post he entitled "Why Liberals (Suddenly) Love the Health Care Bill": It has occurred in spite of the fact that the bill hasn't really gotten any more liberal. Whatever might come out of the reconciliation process will be marginally more liberal than what the Senate passed on its own, but still lacks a public option or a Medicare buy-in, and suffers from most of the same flaws that some liberals were critiquing in the first place. It might have helped a little bit to get the Senate bill off the front pages -- but the differences between the "Obama"/reconciliation bill and the Senate's December bill are fairly cosmetic.
nepidaeMar 19, 2010
How _dare_ they be held accountable for their failures!
gezuskMar 19, 2010
The teacher unions could solve this problem, and not get any interference, if they would implement standards of their own. Just letting any teacher join, without evaluating them, is stupid on their part. They dug the hole they're in.
bobadobalinaMar 20, 2010
Error? For exercising freedom of expression?When we can't criticize our government we may as well put on our burkhas and start building mosques.Which is exactly what Hussein Obama wants us to do
imustbeemoMar 20, 2010
ElJif, that simply solidifies my statement. In rougher neighborhoods, teachers are often the only chance that those kids have at escaping poverty.One of the best schools in Las Vegas is in the ghetto right by the Strip. They have three Magnet programs including an International Baccalaureate program and some of the best teachers in the state. Students who were born into poverty are given fantastic opportunities because of this. It has completely revitalized the community and crime in that area went down ever since the Magnet program went up.
allisonv12Mar 20, 2010
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