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To: epicure who wrote (13649)	3/2/2006 1:21:28 PM
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"Junk food is not nearly as harmful to students as junk teachers, ..." You know, while the above sounds good (cute rhetorical flourish, and all that), with an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, even in children, I'm not sure the above it true. Junk food might just be more dangerous than junk teachers. no, his statement is more than cute he used a bon mot to convey a fundamental truth regarding quality of education , which is apparently lost on you: "junk food might just be more dangerous than junk teachers" no....... so let's see... you think exposure on a very limited basis in the school lunch room maybe 45 minutes....is possibly a worse fate than students held captive to a junk teacher for up to 6 hours??? for an entire year???? where does the student go to reclaim that lost year? no, alec mouhibian is absolutely right when he states junk food is not nearly as harmful as junk teachers... indeed, alec has hit the nail squarely on the head... ca appears to have screwed up priorities when it comes to education and if you think that junk teachers pose a potentially less risk to students than junk food then you are part of the problem one can with relative ease mind the waist, but a MIND is a terrible thing to WASTE... (was that cute or what???) we should have a zero tolerance for junk teachers, but apparently the teachers union agrees with you wrt 'quality control' and teaching.... not only do they see no problem with JUNK teachers, apparently they have little concern about DRUNK teachers someone pm'd me this.... wakingbear.com Unions Defend Bad Teachers'Tenure - At Students' Expense The teacher was caught drinking in the classroom. But public school officials in Northern Virginia couldn't fire her. Why? Tenure laws. ''Everybody in the county knows she's a drunk,'' one parent told IBD. ''But they can't fire her. Yeah, she's got a problem and needs help. But you have to draw the line -for the kids. It's a drug-free zone.'' Such stories are commonplace. Bad teachers, poor learning - nothing seems to change. And despite complaints, it doesn't look like teacher tenure in public schools will change soon. ''I don't see that forthcoming,'' said Chuck Sambar, a member of the Glendale (Calif.) Unified School District board. ''I recognize that the power and muscle of the teacher organizations in California are so dominant over the state Legislature that the legislators are not too inclined to mess with them.'' What about the students? (rest of article within the link, originally published in IBD)