[Rhodes22-list] Public Education - Yeah, it's POLITICAL

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Oh NO. Say it ain't so. Slim is going back to working for the man. 
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 9/27/2008 2:49:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
stevenalm at gmail.com writes:

Ah yes,  lunch room duty.  Where I taught, that was affectionately known  as
"The Bay of Pigs."

Mr. Alm

P.S.  Speaking of... I'm  going back to classroom teaching part-time starting
next month at a music  college in Minneapolis called The Institute of
Production and  Recording.   ipr.edu
I'll be teaching music theory and class  piano technique.  My wife and my
sister both teach there.  We're  planning a takeover.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Brad Haslett  <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a wonderful idea but four  decades too late.  I set the
> benchmark for "lazy student" but  with this policy in place like this I
> could have really gamed the  system.
>
>  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm
>
>  Brad
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Herb Parsons  <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> wrote:
> > See Slim, there ARE  things we can agree with.
> >
> > I'm sick and tired of  school officials who don't want to work. ANYONE
> > can take a set of  rules, and blindly enforce them. It takes some skill,
> > and a  caring attitude, to actually deal with children (and yes, that
> >  includes 17 and 18 year olds).
> >
> > When my youngest was  8 (she's 24 now), she invited me to her school for
> > lunch. I  played hooky from work and joined her. She and I had already
> >  gotten our trays and were sitting in the cafeteria talking, when I  heard
> > a teacher tell one of the other groups "No talking in  line!!!!" She then
> > went back to discussing whatever it was she  was discussing with her
> > friend another teacher.
>  >
> > I wanted to:
> > 1) Tell her that if she could talk  to her friend, then surely the
> > children she's being paid to work  with should be able to talk to theirs
> > 2) Ask her if she stood  silently in line when she went out to eat on
> > weekends at  Luby's
> > 3) Bitchslap her
> >
> > Of course, my  daughter was watching (and learning), so I couldn't do any
> > of  those; however, I DID go speak with the principal and told him that I
>  > felt that overly restrictive rules like that were not in the best
>  > interests of the child, that socializing with others is an  important
> > part of development. He said they had restrictions to  "maintain order."
> > We agreed to disagree, and Katie moved to a  private school.
> >
> > When rules are created for the  convenience of the paid educators, rather
> > than for the betterment  of the child, or out of necessity, then it's
> > administrators being  lazy.
> >
> > Sorry if I offend anyone on this, but there  are too many professional
> > educators out there that fit that  category.
> >
> >
> > Steven Alm wrote:
>  >> Herb,
> >>
> >> We had a high school senior  up here just last week that was caught with
> a
> >>  box-cutter in his car in the school parking lot.  The lot was  being
> checked
> >> for parking stickers when it was  spotted in plain view in the cup
> holder.
> >> OK, now the  kid had an after-school job at Cub Foods doing, guess what,
> >>  cutting boxes but the school has, as most, a zero tolerance for  
anything
> >> pointy on school grounds and he was suspended and  threatened with
> >> expulsion.  The school board said it  would be unfair to other students
> to
> >> NOT expell  him.  After a week of wrangling and heated discussion the
>  board
> >> decided to let him stay in school but with a heafty  probation.
> >> Administration on steroids.
>  >>
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep  24, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com
>  >wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Watch  this:
> >>>
> >>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJfqyzfCPg
> >>>
>  >>> They had these kids ARRESTED!!!! Watch the dour faced "educator"  hold
> >>> her face squarely serious as she talks about  "disrupting an educational
> >>> environment".
>  >>>
> >>> I want to one of the asshats look squarely  at the camera, and say that
> >>> when they had these students  arrested, they were acting in the best
> >>> interests of the  kids they teach.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah,  right.
> >>>
> >>> Ever wonder what some of us  are so dead set against these bureaucratic
> >>>  morons?
> >>>
> >>> I once drove my motorcycle  through my college's library, LONG before
> >>> D-Day rode his  up the stairs on Delta House. Guess I was just lucky
> that
>  >>> 1) It was a private school more interested in people than  the
> importance
> >>> of their jobs and 2) I was  smart/desperate enough that I didn't slow
> >>> down until I  was 20 miles down I-35.
> >>>
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