Unlike the Air Traffic Controllers, teachers can vote with their feet. Part of what makes people be "the best and the brightest" is knowing when to move on to better circumstances. Wisconsin is playing race to the bottom, and the bottom looks like Mississippi. No one's rushing to work as a teacher there based on their results for sure. I don't think you should be so smug yet. It's quite likely that there is more change yet to come, and these laws may well not stand.Originally Posted by RJ
I'm not smug at all. And I think you are shistling in the dark about teachers voting with their feet. The is no shortage in teachers except in rural and low paying locations. There are thousands of young graduates from universities with Masters in Education that are living with their parents, or working in another field because the teaching jobs bucket is over full.
When a state reaches the point where they are out of money because of past administrations giveaways and the public servants are being paid more than the people who pay the taxes to pay them their higher wages, adjustments must be made.
I'm a strong believer in putting the highing and firing of teachers back in the hands of Principles. Not School Boards who think that the tax payer will pay antthing they agree to pay teachers, administrators and other non-teaching administrative positions. A $300,000 per year school administrator for a single high school is abusing the privleged of working for a days pay.
I don't have a problem with teachers, but I do have a problem with a teacher who by seniority and doesn't give a crap anymore about the children she is responsible to teach coming to work every day and punishing the kids with silly acts of power. Any prinicpal who has the power to hire and fire teachers would dump the inneffective and bitter long time teacher and retain a younger and more talented and motivated teacher. None of them have the power to do that anymore.
I went to high school in the early 1950's. There was the principle, his secretary and a file clerk. No school administrators, or assist school administrators and their staffs of 4 and 5 other clerical types pulling down sallaries that started at $60 k a year.
No whining about class sizes that were bigger than 23 students was ever heard in the 1950. Grade schools in the years following WWII had classed in grade school of 50 or more kids in a room. NY City is talking about laying off 6,200 young teachers whilst they pay 2,200 to come to Rubber Rooms to play cards, watch TV or run side businesses by computer because they are unfit to teach, but the City of NY can't fire them.
The Mayor of NY City is trying to get the NY State Government to eleminate
tenure and allow his schools keep the good teachers and lay off those who are below standard.
Can you name any other job as important as a teacher of our children that isn't subject to an annual or bi-annual review? Nurse's, Cops, Firemen, and the other uniform services all have to meet physical and ability standards in most cities. Airline pilots, truckdrivers, train crews and electric power and gas workers are all held to standards. Why not teachers?
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute...les/PUB890.pdfWidespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security. Deliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters are all paths to disruptive domestic shock.
An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domes-tic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home. Already predisposed to defer to the primacy of civilian authorities in instances of domestic security and divest all but the most extreme demands in areas like civil support and consequence management, DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance.
from Known Unknowns: Unconventional "Strategic Shocks" in Defense Strategy Development, Mr. Nathan P. Freier.
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Titled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development," the report warned that the U.S. military and intelligence community remain mired in the past as well as the need to accommodate government policy. Freier, a former Pentagon official, said that despite the Al Qaida surprise in 2001 U.S. defense strategy and planning remain trapped by "excessive convention."
"The current administration confronted a game-changing 'strategic shock' inside its first eight months in office," the report said. "The next administration would be well-advised to expect the same during the course of its first term. Indeed, the odds are very high against any of the challenges routinely at the top of the traditional defense agenda triggering the next watershed inside DoD [Department of Defense]."
Historically, defense strategy demonstrates three flaws: (1) it is generally reactive, (2) it lacks sufficient strategic imagination, and (3) as a result, it is vulnerable to surprise. The current administration confronted a game-changing “strategic shock” in its first 8 months in office. The next team would be well-advised to expect the same kind of unconventional and nonmilitary shock to DoD convention early in its first term.
The report cited the collapse of what Freier termed "a large capable state that results in a nuclear civil war." Such a prospect could lead to uncontrolled weapons of mass destruction proliferation as well as a nuclear war.
The report cited the prospect of a breakdown of order in the United States. Freier said the Pentagon could be suddenly forced to recall troops from abroad to fight domestic unrest.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtri...0790_12_15.asp
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A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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Luckily for the Republic, 'von NotHaus' is impossible to work into lyrics.
http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel...1/ce031811.htmSTATESVILLE, NC—Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted today by a federal jury of making, possessing, and selling his own coins, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Following an eight-day trial and less than two hours of deliberation, von NotHaus, the founder and monetary architect of a currency known as the Liberty Dollar, was found guilty by a jury in Statesville, North Carolina, of making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling, and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty Dollar coins intended for use as current money; and of conspiracy against the United States.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...text|FrontpageFoes of illegal immigration are up in arms over plans for a weekend disaster exercise in western Iowa with a fictitious scenario in which young white supremacists shoot dozens of people amid rising tensions involving racial minorities and illegal immigrants.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Real Housewives of Wall Street
Another Tiabbi article that raises some interesting points.
Just wish he didn't work for Rolling Stone.As crazy as it is to lend to banks at near zero percent and borrow back from them at three percent, one could at least argue that the policy may have aided American companies by providing banks more cash to lend. But how do you explain the host of other bailout transactions now being examined by Congress? Like the Fed's massive purchases of securities in foreign automakers, including BMW, Volkswagen, Honda, Mitsubishi and Nissan? Or the nearly $5 billion in cheap credit the Fed extended to Toyota and Mitsubishi? Sure, those companies have factories and dealerships in the U.S. — but does it really make sense to give them free cash at the same time taxpayers were being asked to bail out Chrysler and GM? Seems a little crazy to fund the competition of the very automakers you're trying to rescue.
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And at a time when America is borrowing from the Middle East at interest rates of three percent, why did the Fed extend $35 billion in loans to the Arab Banking Corporation of Bahrain at interest rates as low as one quarter of one point? Even more disturbing, the major stakeholder in the Bahrain bank is none other than the Central Bank of Libya, which owns 59 percent of the operation. In fact, the Bahrain bank just received a special exemption from the U.S. Treasury to prevent its assets from being frozen in accord with economic sanctions. That's right: Muammar Qaddafi received more than 70 loans from the Federal Reserve, along with the Real Housewives of Wall Street.
Exactly what does Mississippi look like on a Gaussian?
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