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12/15/08
I would like to thank my Civics teacher for making learning so boring that only now do I understand the meaning of this thread.
Thanks!
12/16/08
It wasn't until I started writing for a living that I realized the extent to which I was drastically, hideously, shamefully underread. And a pox FOREVER on my so-called "guidance" counselor.
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He's completely awesome, when Scalia snidely said that perhaps he [the professor] knew more about the 4th amendment than Scalia , the professor replied "well, there's no doubt about that".
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I say bring back the abacus.
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Do what this woman has done in every city in the country. Fire bad teachers, give the good ones incentives and for heavens sake, weed out the corrupt bastards lining their pockets with school funds!
12/15/08
Tenure in teachers is not really a good thing, or so I believe.
12/15/08
Beyond his normal problems he failed to do anything when my dictatorial principal decided to keep firing the union reps or anyone who spoke against her, despite the school being well known, the principal killing our rankings and student morale, fantastic teachers leaving left and right, o and the fact that our walkout got on both fox news and in the papers after one particularly evil anti-labor firing. After the second alkout he promised to look into it personally and did jack shit, meanwhile the school continues to go severely downhill.
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And I know Duncan will probably do an ok job, but I just have a hard time forgiving him for ignoring a situation where students were clearly unhappy (I forget what percentage of the students signed the petition, a third or more I think) and there were obvious labor violations.
Now Rhee, that's a woman who appears to be fantastic and seems to do the right thing for the students. We need someone like her in Chicago, the public school system there is terrible for 80% of the students, and Im being kind with that figure
12/15/08
Basically, if she can turn it around and make her system work, then it'll be a great thing. And it'll be up to kids like Rhodes to make a functional system better. But it has to get functional first.
I wonder how she treats schools whose test scores falter. Apparently in Texas, if a school's TASP scores drop at all, it loses funding for the next year, and if that happens three years in a row, the school gets put through a wringer. The problem is, it's any drop, say 97% passing to 96% passing. And that's just absurd.
From that article, Rhee seems to be punishing individual teachers and principals and not the schools themselves. And that makes a bit more sense. But I'd have to agree with the teachers interviewed, it is a bit scary. Test scores don't say the whole story, but if the kids can't read, then you've got to do something.
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YES WE DID!!!!!
Given the shenanigans that went on behind the Constitution being labeled by GWB as "just a piece of paper", I will never get tired of saying it.
Never.
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Heh. Yeeeeeeah boy!
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Also, this afternoon it was reported that a brown bear has in fact shit in the woods.
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