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WookieMan says

I usually keep a local affiliate from Chicago on in the background for news

We take your word for it.

You live there, you've lived there for a long time. You know the zeitgeist of the place, you know what everyday people who don't holler for attention are like. We here in California, and the SF Bay Area, respect your insights, your views on the place. You know WTF you are talking about for your region.

But not for California, and not for the SF Bay Area.

B.A.C.A.H. says

But not for California, and not for the SF Bay Area.

I'm talking about big cities. Not just CA. Public sector unions shouldn't even be allowed to exist. I know you've mentioned in the past you've worked in/with schools I believe. My mom was a teacher. She was overpaid and now has a great pension. And yes, I could have taught and gotten the same benefits/pay. So it's not jealousy.

The issue most the public has with teachers anywhere is they always say it's for the kids. It's not and never has been. They have the classic narrative that they work X hours even though they have summers off and a bunch of other days off. Kids are literally roaming the streets of big cities right now because the teachers don't want to work. There's no other explanation. All this at the expense of the kids out of fear of a mundane virus.

And yes, administrators are awful too, more so than the teachers. They're just not part of the union generally and just answer to the school board for pay and hours.

Unions are bad for the good teachers and amazing for awful teachers. It's an extremely flawed system where ultimately taxpayers have to vote against their best interest just to get their kids to school. It shouldn't be that way.

Also, I think I'm pretty cordial with everyone here. You don't have to like my comments, and I'm not offended. My style is different. But I haven't appreciated the snarkiness lately. I'm free to make opinions about places on a forum like this. If I think CA is shit, I can think that. I don't, but I'm free to criticize my experiences and my understanding of CA, much of it from here. You have a bona fide recall attempt against your governor. That's no small feat and clearly shows CA is having some issues. Just because you live there doesn't mean it's attack against you or your choice to live there. Everyone has their reasons.

The teachers Union must be destroyed.

https://blog.electkevinkiley.com/the-big-lie/

Here’s a line in the sand I’m ready to draw. I’ll never support any candidate for any office who propagated the Big Lie that opening schools was unsafe.

It’s been propagated in California like nowhere else. Biden’s Education Department just reported we have the fewest fourth graders in school full-time: 5 percent. Across all grades, we’ve lagged behind every state throughout the last year: 50th out of 50.

Who, specifically, is accountable for the Big Lie? Here’s who to start with:

Gavin Newsom. There may not be a person in the United States more culpable than Newsom, whose biggest campaign donor is teachers’ unions. Last Fall, he was one of only five governors to force schools to close; this Spring, he was the only West Coast governor not to make them open. All the while, Newsom had no problem “endangering” his own kids at a private school. He then added another lie, claiming they were in “Zoom school.”

Tony Thurmond. The State Superintendent, whom teachers’ unions spent $13 million installing, has peddled the Big Lie at every turn. When I cross-examined him last October, he tipped his hand that the plan was to keep schools closed the entire year or longer, breathlessly citing “new data” that “COVID could be with us well beyond 2021.”

The Legislature. It’s never questioned the Big Lie. After my “Killing our Kids for Nothing” speech in March, it rejected my Amendment to open schools immediately.

Education Committee Chairs. The Assembly Chair has refused to allow even a vote on my bills to reopen schools and fund students directly, has tried to mute my microphone, and has denied public comment. The Senate Education Chair just insanely proposed that distance learning continue “into the fall and possibly further.”

School Boards. After keeping schools closed this whole year, LA and SF Unified are now scamming the state for millions in extra funding with fake re-openings. SF will let two high schools offer in-person “supervision” once a week; LA has set up a Kafkaesque “Zoom in a Room” for 7 percent of students. It’s time to consider disbanding these farcically corrupt districts.

It’s also, of course, time to oust this historically corrupt Governor. Newsom recently tried to minimize the tragedy of learning loss by calling it “unfinished learning.” Perhaps he’s hoping we’ll refer to his Recall loss as an unfinished term.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/california-state-board-of-ed-dumbing-down-k-12-math-curriculum-to-ensure-equitable-outcomes/

California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/report-california-public-school-teachers-being-told-to-hide-critical-race-materials-from-parents/

‘She Sucked My D*ck’: Moms Go Thermonuclear Over NSFW Material In Class Reading Assignments

In a series of videos posted by Ian Prior on Twitter, parents read passages from books, including “Monday’s Not Coming” by Tiffany Jackson, which were apparently assigned to 9th grade students in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). This is the same school board meeting where a mother blasted the school system’s use of critical race theory.

“She sucked my d*ck,” a parent read from a text.

Passages from Jackson’s book read by the furious parents included characters discussing oral sex, a female character being beaten and thrown into a closet and a sexual encounter in a classroom. The book “#MurderTrending” by Gretchen McNeil, was also quoted, where a female character discussed the size of a male friend’s genitalia.

“He had a big d*ck,” a parent read in the meeting.

“This is the definition of a hostile work environment,” one parent, holding up a poster featuring a list of LCPS policy violations, told the school board.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/13/loundoun-county-class-assignments-nsfw-virginia-school-board-meeting/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7WNUbZmUQ

GoFundMe terminated a fundraiser for parents against CRT that was targeted by a Secret Woke EduAdmin Group:
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/01/open-conspiracy-rights-gofundme-terminates-fundraiser-for-unwoke-parents-targeted-loudoun-county-critical-race-theory/

Keep attacking.

The Teacher's Union Must be Destroyed

https://www.rightjournalism.com/morbidly-obese-teacher-yells-at-a-skinny-vaccinated-student-for-not-wearing-a-mask-and-calls-him-a-jerk-receive-instant-justice/

Booger says

https://www.rightjournalism.com/morbidly-obese-teacher-yells-at-a-skinny-vaccinated-student-for-not-wearing-a-mask-and-calls-him-a-jerk-receive-instant-justice/

Morbidly Obese Teacher Yells At A Skinny Vaccinated Student For Not Wearing A Mask And Calls Him A Jerk – Receive Instant Justice
A video shared on social media that has been filmed at Poynette High School showed a teacher yelling at a student and saying the teen could still spread COVID-19 even though he was vaccinated. The teacher can be heard calling the student a “dink,” “jerk” and “dummy” throughout the video.

“I don’t care if you’re vaccinated, you little dink,” the teacher told the student in the video. “I don’t want to get sick and die. There’s other people you can infect just because you’re vaccinated. You know what? You’re not a special person around here.

“You should hear about how everyone talks about you around here. You’re a jerk. You’re a jerk. And you need to have respect for other people in your life. You’re not a big man on campus, quit walking around here like you have a stick up your butt.” ...

It seems that the teacher received instant karma, as soon as the video was shared on social media District Administrator Matthew Shappell decided to place her on leave.

Nice!

Patrick says

District Administrator Matthew Shappell decided to place her on leave.

Probably with full pay and benefits. She'll be cramming fast food down her pie hole watching soap operas on the public dime, and go back to teaching later 100 pounds heavier.

Here ya go

There are people that are truly terrified of Covid.

She's fat enough that it may actually be a danger to her.

I'd put a five on it, that's it's a Biden Voter.

Whale blubber!

Those poor poor feetsies!

The teachers union crafted CDC guidelines to keep schools closed longer.

https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1394997068570169344#m

Fuck teacher unions

Travesty

Among the material associated with a Maryland public school's five-day social justice summer course is a slide that identifies the phrase "Make America Great Again" as a type of "Covert White Supremacy."

The slogan, often abbreviated "MAGA," has been a staple of Donald Trump's political career.

Judicial Watch obtained the slide and other materials related to Thomas Pyle Middle School's course titled "Reading and Taking Action for Social Justice."

"The enclosed materials were prepared to include in the class; however, many of the materials were not shared with students," according to the cover letter provided along with the course records. It also states that the class "took place July 13 through July 17, 2020 and met for 50 minutes each day. No grades were given and no actual work was due."

The middle school is connected with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, a school district that awarded more than $454,000 for an "Anti-racist System Audit."

"The Board voted to award a contract to Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium to conduct an Anti-racist System Audit for a total amount not to exceed $454,680 for Fiscal Year 2021," the public school district said in a November 2020 release. "The Anti-racist System Audit will provide an opportunity to examine the district's systems, practices, and policies that do not create access, opportunities, and equitable outcomes for every student's academic and social emotional well-being. Furthermore, the audit will provide the opportunity to examine not only the student experience; it presents the occasion to analyze policies and practices that impact staff, as well."
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/slide-social-justice-class-lists-make-america-great-again-covert-white

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/second-circuit-rules-vermont-cant-exclude-religious-schools-from-tuition-program_3841255.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Second Circuit Rules Vermont Can’t Exclude Religious Schools From Tuition Program

The U.S Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has ruled that Vermont can’t exclude students attending religious schools from state-sponsored tuition programs, striking down the state’s long-standing prohibition on public funding for those institutions.

Vermont’s Town Tuition Program (TTP), one of the oldest of its kind in the United States, provides educational vouchers for students living in towns that don’t have public schools. The program allows a designated “tuition town” to directly pay tuition to the school of student’s choice, which can be public, secular private, or home school in or outside Vermont.

The case was brought last September by families who applied to their tuition towns for funding under the TTP, but their requests were denied because the schools they attend are deemed “too religious.” Their complaint alleged that Vermont Agency of Education and had engaged in discrimination by denying religious schools access to TTP funding.

“The government is constitutionally required to treat religious people equally,” said Ryan Tucker, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group representing the plaintiffs in the case. “As the U.S. Supreme Court has held, denying public benefits because of religion violates the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause because it unconstitutionally forces families to choose between exercising their religion or enjoying a publicly available benefit.”

In its opinion released Wednesday, the appeals court sided with the suing students and parents, saying that Vermont’s education officials had maintained their discriminatory policy even after last year’s Supreme Court ruling.

“Last June, the Court clarified that this rule does not allow a state to apply a state constitutional prohibition on aid to religion that would bar religious schools from public benefits solely because of the religious character of the schools,” the opinion reads. “The officials who administer Vermont’s Town Tuition Program nevertheless continued to discriminate against religious schools and students in violation of the First Amendment.”

“The Supreme Court has made clear that the prevailing practice in Vermont—maintaining a policy of excluding religious schools from the TTP—is unconstitutional,” the judges wrote.

In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Montana can create a tax-credit scholarship program for private schools, even if it would mean that most money goes to religious schools.

“A State need not subsidize private education,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the 5-4 decision. “But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

Another ADF lawsuit!

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Another ADF lawsuit!

https://adflegal.org/

They seem like very good people.

The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression. Followed by one day of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a virtual listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory

https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-039/

“ The National Education Association, America's largest teachers' union, is holding a vote on requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, masks and testing for students before classes return in the fall. ”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americas-largest-teachers-union-to-vote-on-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-masks-and-testing-for-students/ar-AALFSYo

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

cisheteropatriarchy

What the fuck is that? Old straight men?

They couldn't fit white in that word.

There was a famous mega asshole who was the president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, Al Shanker.

He was so famous a dick that Woody Allen mentioned him in a movie.

I think it was the one about the future, Sleeper.
Paraphrase: "How was society destroyed?" "Someone named Al Shanker got hold of a nuclear weapon."

In Japan are teachers respected but they likely deserve it.

clambo says

In Japan are teachers respected but they likely deserve it.

Different unified culture. Strong parent rights, family ethic and tradition. By American standards, Japan is ultra racist in every way.

Teachers in Japan have to eat with the kids, who clean up after themselves. Neither Karens nor EduKarens would tolerate such a thing.

"NEA: Trojan Horse" - by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld, former Private and NYC Public Schoolteacher and Phonics/Homeschool Advocate:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00599209Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

Patrick says

America is not doomed by diversity though, we just have to stress unity as Americans to overcome the obvious enormous harms of diversity.

It hasn’t been done I think, because it’s too easy to divide. We have very little that unites us right now, it worries me. The left destroyed almost all bonds we have between us here as people. It’s a very dangerous situation. Because people don’t stay in abusive relationships or even those that have no benefit. And our America feels like that relationship right now.

Patrick says

She's fat enough that it may actually be a danger to her.

Yeah she’s legally a manatee. Or maamatee if it identifies as a ma’am. With that level of BMI everything is a death sentence. Of course she doesn’t think it’s her fault that she can be seen from the moon station by a naked eye.

Fortwaynemobile says

Patrick says

America is not doomed by diversity though, we just have to stress unity as Americans to overcome the obvious enormous harms of diversity.

It hasn’t been done I think, because it’s too easy to divide. We have very little that unites us right now, it worries me.

I think you're wrong about that.

We have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it, conservatives hate it.

richwicks says

We have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it

Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government. The libs see big government as the method to get even with the rich and redistribute wealth to themselves.

Teachers union is an enemy of our children

HeadSet says

richwicks says

We have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it

Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government. The libs see big government as the method to get even with the rich and redistribute wealth to themselves.

Yes, seems that way to me too.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

We have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it

Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government.

No no no.

They want government to do more for the population. They complain that all this money is wasted on war, and they naively think they can get the government to change, if they just get people to vote in a certain way. They are the gullible among us.

They think they can FIX the government, Conservatives realize they can't and would prefer to abolish most of it.

Go take a look a Jimmy Dore for example:

https://www.youtube.com/c/thejimmydoreshow/videos

Now I know many people here don't like him because he's a "liberal" - just remember, liberals aren't your enemies, they are just naive. Most liberals (except the fringe ones) don't give a crap about Drag Queen Story Hour, or the LGBTQ "agenda" - they want student debt relief, and the government to "do more", like handle the homeless crisis and provide "free" health care.

They are just naive. They're gullible - they aren't "stupid", they just don't realize that the "liberal" wing of government doesn't give a fuck about them.

I agree. I think that naivete is a huge problem

My mother-in-law thinks that it's very cynical of me to say that Fauci created the virus in order to sell the "vaccine".

I don't understand how she can ignore the easily available evidence. Fauci did indeed fund the lab that created the virus, and he does indeed push the jab.

Patrick says

I don't understand how she can ignore the easily available evidence.

She's just unable to understand the nature of true evil. She doesn't know how to think like a sociopath.

If you can get her to play some video games that are competitive - and if she's able to kill some players and NPCs (literal ones) - ask her if she felt bad for any character or person she took out. Of course she won't. That's how a sociopath thinks about people.

Liberals problem is that they grew up in homes where rationality and credentialism ruled.

In their minds, somebody with a degree/position can't be corrupt because they were vetted by their bourgeois surroundings.

Even a Liberal who had the SAT taken for him and went to Harvard on an Alumni admission thinks he is one of the capable, credentialed, virtuous people. He doesn't see his Alumni admission or SAT Fraud as being corruption or nepotism, but things he needed to do get that "Certification" as one of the "Better People". The Credential makes him one of the Most Highly Virtuous.

"I must be a good person because I had a re-usable grocery bag, I have the correct positions other bourgeois admins/execs have, I read the NYT and Economist and watch Late Nite Funny Men, and I have the proper credentials".

Words to the contrary simply don't compute. They have massive Doublethink.

This is why leftists can pivot from "Watch out for the Media and Big Pharma" to "Praise the Media and Big Pharma" in a minute without neck injuries. Best illustrated in one of many NPC memes where they get new instructions from NBC or WaPo or NPR.

Or they can have no problem with 1/6 solitary confinement for misdemeanors, but can excuse massive BLM/Antifa riots and violence; censorship of Alex Jones and Donald Trump and COVID counter-official narrative opinions, but claim to be for Free Speech.

Look at the ACLU, now claiming they won't automatically defend Free Speech cases if the accused are legally armed. They carefully phrased it so they CAN defend BLM/Black Nationalist groups that are (legally) armed.

When we replaced Western Classic Virtues and Christian Virtues with Radical Bourgeoisie Credentialism, John Dewey's mindset, that was the turning point for disaster.

Just like nuts gravitate to psychology, weirdos gravitate to teaching.