It is time for the State of the Union… where do you think education resources should go? what should be our priorities as a nation when it comes to education?
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Are you wondering what people are answering under “other”? Take a look
I hope this activity will help in the efforts of getting this bill passed. If not all state presidents, which ones were there? Thanks to all of them.
It’s about time someone stood up to the greedy, immoral business/government environment we find ourselves today. It’s just further proof that you can only expect sensationalistic news reporting from FAUX NEWS. Rather than being true patriots and standing together to build our country, media fools like FAUX NEWS [and others who do not give the education issue time] are TRAITORS to the ideals of the Bill of Rights. We know for a fact that education is the #1 institution that can transform a nation for better or worse. I am embarrassed at what the Republican Party has become. Moreover, I am embarrassed for the Democrats who haven’t stood up to the insanity. Perhaps, the two party system is really an illusion.
Speak Up For Education and Kids Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid will be at Netroots Nation at 3pm Pacific today. He needs to address educator job losses! Please watch live and ask him the following question at link below: What’s your plan to get the education jobs bill passed before students go back to school? How will senators explain to constituent…s why kids are in classrooms of 40 students or more?
Everybody should read about DEMOCRATS FOR EDUCATION REFORM. That group has been recruiting, financing and bribing politicians, mayors, governors secretary of education and president. They have been working for several years and what we are experiencing today is just a nation wide effect of their work. We should not vote for any of the politicians who have received funds or openly endorse this organization. It is hard to believe that people who were educated mostly in public schools can sell themselves to the power of companies, hedge funds, who want to profit from public funds. The creation of charter schools is nothing else that becoming the middle man to pay teachers and be able to receive loans and funding from private organizations who will make money out of tax breaks of up to 35% designed for this purpose.
http://www.dfer.org/
http://www.actblue.com/partner/dfer
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00417733
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/committees/democrats-for-education-reform.asp?cycle=10
State employees across the nation need to get together. Not only teachers. Same day, Nationwide actions are the only way to stop all this nonsense going on against state employees.
No Child Left behind helped companies to make money for 8 years but they never attempted to leave teachers without jobs nor benefits. Today is different, most of the teachers are accomplices because they are not involved, many states have more than 100,000 full time teachers that do not get together because they are separated by school districts, what a mistake; get united and march together, only way to bring back sanity to education. Lets elect teachers to the senate and governors.
Oh, please, please, please. Why do we have to fight and beg to keep our jobs? We have a Secretary of Education who could care less. How did he get this job? We now have a person who is running for governor in Florida who wants to make it easier for principals to fire teachers. What is going on? Is the whole world going crazy? It is frighting what is happening. I personally know teachers who have been bounced around year and year and then let go because they have changed schools too many times. What is going on? I am close to retirement and hope that I can hold on to my job till I can retire. It would also be very supportive if the Secretary of Education and the President of the United States step up and make sure the “human” thing is accomplished. These are our jobs and our passion.
Teachers win awards for being motivators, not for understanding economics. There is NO MONEY people. What is so hard to understand about that? our president has put us 1 Trillion in the hole so the pity spending MUST STOP. I am sorry you lost your job and even sorrier for the students of these great teachers, but to give them work simply because its their passion of life is just as bad as putting someone to work because of the color of their skin, or building a road to nowhere so that people can get a paycheck. Let’s get some sense into this country, into this congress and into this presidency!! We are headed to the next Great Depression if the spending does not stop. Did we not learn from FDR? He spent and spent trying to fix the Depression and did NOT fix the high unemployment rate but DID create a higher national debt. Sound Familiar??????
Welcome to the new Third World.How do you get there. You start with education. Cut it and strip it down. Make it only accessible to those who can pay. Close libraries. Strip funding down to nothing. Then penalize schools and teachers, because they failed, so you can even fund them less. The super-rich don’t live here full time. The U.S. is old news. It was a great exploit, but it’s time to move on to China, India, and other emerging economies. We’re going down the tubes folks. Time to have a fire sale.
Ms. McCabe, I really appreciate this article. I had not seen this essay until now, but I cried as I read through it. This is my professional life to the letter, and I just can’t take it anymore. I went to the best school in Texas for teacher education, and yet I’m treated like a peon. Personally, my students do very well on the state test, but fail to meet expectations and requirements in every other aspect, and I’m being treated unfairly for grading them truthfully. It’s not exactly what Mrs. Miller is saying, but it’s similar in the reverse, I suppose. We are gearing up to return to our classrooms and all I can think about is how I would rather do ANYTHING other than this. I’ve even considered selling my house and moving into an apartment just so I wouldn’t have to worry about making a mortgage payment and I could quit the job I spent years training and learning to do effectively. All of the problems Mrs. Miller outlined are problems in our district as well and it’s frustrating. Holding a teacher accountable for student achievement – when we’re faced with so many roadblocks – is like blaming the salesmen for General Motors’ failure. If my evaluations show I’m a competent teacher, then why should I suffer just because my students genuinely see no point in doing well on a test when only certain grade levels require passing for grade promotion? Make the test relevant to what they really need to know, and leave it up to me to show them the relevance. Only then you can pay me accordingly.