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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87163)

4/13/2012 10:50:20 AM

From: longnshort

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Reasons Public School Teachers and Unions are Failing Children and Bankrupting America
by Megan Fox
Posted on March 18 2011 6:00 am
Megan Fox is a stay-at-home mom, blogger, radio-talk show host and conservative folk-singer. Visit her at www.intolerantfox.com.

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Corruption, greed, incompetence, bureaucratic bungling: Those are the things most likely to be found when the charade of public union outrage is peeled back to reveal the inner workings of collective bargaining. There is no doubt America is engaged in an ideological battle. On one side are the public sector unions and “workers” demanding the taxpayers cough up more to fund their fat paychecks and bloated pensions. On the other side are the majority of Americans who work in the private sector, fund their own retirements and health care, and have no entitlement programs they haven’t designed themselves. The public sector is asking for more blood while the private sector is beaten unconscious and bleeding from every major artery.

The newly elected Republican guard is trying to stop the bleeding, starting with the mess that is the public union. The howling has only just begun (see Wisconsin and Ohio). The Left has used unions and “workers’ rights” throughout history to weave their socialist ideals into the fabric of society. They use words and ideas that sound good in theory like “all children have the right to education! All workers have the right to a fair wage! A chicken on every table! A rice cooker on every counter!” They use these mantras to make anyone who doesn’t think leftist ideas actually help people feel ashamed of themselves. But when you get down to the practical application of their ideas, you find the nice words are covering up a festering, rotting corpse of horror.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the public school system where we are facing record malfeasance and mismanagement of public trust.

10. Grace Currin

No list about government waste would be complete without a visit to one of the best… of the worst in public education: the Chicago Public School System where bad teachers survive and illiterate kids waste away. Grace Currin’s entire fourth grade class will be showing up for summer school because of her inability to educate them sufficiently to pass. That’s right, they all failed. Three different principals in her school tried to fire her. They failed due to union attack dogs who refused (and continue to refuse) to allow any dues-paying tenured member to fall off the rolls no matter how stupid they are. Witnesses to her teaching style have reported heinous behavior.

The noise level in the class is unbelievable. Kids are fighting. Children are rolling around on the floor. They are throwing chairs across the room. One day I walked into her classroom and said, ‘Did you see that chair fly across the room?’ and she said, ‘I told them not to do that.’

Currin even admits she’s part of the problem, but mostly blames it on the children.

I am part of the problem, but remember, you can’t expect miracles when you have low achievers.

Currin has been teaching for 30 years. It strains the mind to imagine how many young minds were ruined by her ineptitude. However, she can still count on the full support of her union who apparently couldn’t care less that Chicago school children pay the price.

Next: A six-figure salary for teaching one class a day –>

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87163)	4/13/2012 10:52:07 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Outraged Media Matters Demands Democrats Return Hilary Rosen’s Massive Campaign Contributions Posted by Jammie on Apr 12, 2012 at 10:20 pm Does CNN know their on-air talent is contributing heavily to the Democratic Party? Shouldn’t there be some sort of disclosure when these folks come on air that they’re being paid by the DNC while also contributing to them? This cretinous Hilary Rosen, partners in a firm with former White House flunky Anita Dunn that is being rewarded handsomely by the DNC, also happens to be doling out large sums to –- wait for it — the Democratic Party! Why there’s a nice $1000 contribution to the DCCC. Sweet. And hey, look over there, there $2500 to Kirsten Gillibrand last month as well. Gillibrand, oddly enough, is one of the few Democrats to not throw Rosen under the bus today. But still, she’s nowhere to be found. Which reminds us, every time a conservative steps in it, be it on TV or radio, the stormtroopers from Media Matters, along with their partners from the White House and DNC, leap into feigned outrage and begin their tiresome boycotts. Where are the Soros flying monkeys today? Not a peep about this assault on stay at home mothers and Ann Romney. An off-color remark about a DNC plant whining about contraception costs and there’s weeks of national headlines. The biggest story in America this day? Meh. It’s been incredibly amusing watching Democrats distance themselves today, pretending they hardly have anything to do with each other. Funny, considering Rosen has contributed at least $189,000 to them. Not to mention another $157,000 to special interests. Oh, she did toss a couple of bucks to a few Republicans over the years. Last one? Mark Foley. I highly doubt she found any conservative causes special or interesting. Heck, Rosen is listed No. 27 in the contributor power rankings. She’s the upper crust elite, the, ahem, 1%. Yet, she somehow manages to find her way into the White House 35 times to visit our heroic middle class warrior. This woman has been lavishing money on Democrats going back to the 1980s. Don’t buy the nonsense they’re not joined at the hip. Her PR firm has an “In the News” section, and she and Dunn and featured many times. Oddly enough today, like at Media Matters, she didn’t make the news. [iframe id="odbPingIframeId" src="about:blank" name="odbFrame" style="width: 0px; height: 0px; display: none;" frameborder="0"][/iframe]

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87163)	4/13/2012 11:51:33 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

What is a second amendment remedy? The Second Amendment remedies nothing. The Second Amendment does protect a natural right and anybody who appreciates freedom defends it. It may get hairy sometimes, but it is dialog, better than second amendment remedies.