This week, teachers ... are doing only what's outlined in their contracts. They're part of the "working to the contract" movement that's drawing in hundreds of high school and elementary teachers.
That's why close to 200 teachers at 4 high schools are standing together in a teaching to the contract movement to give everyone a taste of what it would be like if they clocked in at 7:10 and left at 2:25, skipping all of the extras.
So what happened to "It's all for the kids" and "The kids only have one shot at a good education."
This is what happens when bloated monsters monopolize education.
Here are two examples of brainwashing of our children.
"The students just don't understand why there's no money. A lot of them are asking us about this and they support us."
Maybe they need a civics lesson and a class on balancing a checkbook. Or what happens when revenues nose dive?!
"They're learning that education is important, learning is important and we're standing up for what's right. I think that's a very important lesson."
Instead of a proper education, these progressive teachers have their kids learn about how to be dependent on government for everything and whine to the government for more; when the natural cycle says it is time to constrain spending and do less with less. Nice one.
We need tax breaks now to break the monopoly. We need free market school choice through more homeschooling incentives and charter schools.
The progressives will continue to strangle themselves through the Chesterfield Education Mafia. Meanwhile, Marcus "the fish" Newsome wants to put The Taxpayer in some cement shoes and do a "little field trip" down to the Appomattox River to learn about what grows on the bottom of the river bed...
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As a parent of two high schoolers, I can say that I already see what it's like when teachers "work to the contract." In a number of cases, they're not even working while ON CONTRACT!! If they were, my kids wouldn't be watching "A Few Good Men" or "National Treasure" in class. Or how about that little worksheet that's supposed to fill up 75 minutes of class time... but that's okay, kids can stay occupied on the classroom computers while the teacher does nothing.
ReplyDeleteI attended my first School Board meeting about a week ago and there was one event that really stuck in my mind.
ReplyDeleteThey were having a meeting to discuss how to out reach to the public (so the public would support a tax increase), and at one point the suggestion that the schools should bring in outside experts in the business world to teach parts of the curriculum that matched up to their specialty. For example having a bank manager come in and teach about how to handle a checking account for a week. One of the teachers on the panel, stated that he did not want a successful member of the business community coming in to his class room and diminishing his STANDING before his students.
That told me that he places two things before his students best interest. First his ego, and second his ability to indoctrinate the students in his class with his beliefs.
I suggest that everyone start attending the School Board meetings and the Board of Supervisors meeting.