Here is another case of union thuggery in action. Meet Michael Mulgrew, the president of the American Federation of Teachers in the Big Apple. No, he's not some pencil-neck geek standing in front of a blackboard. He is a union thug. And if you don't support Common Core, guess what. He's going to punch you in the mouth.
Michael Mulgrew
(Must be a retouched photo)
http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/08/common-core-critics-to-be-punched-in-the-face-warns-teachers-union-president
From Breitbart, here is the video of this goon and his threatening speech.
Hey Mulgrew! I don't like Common Core either. But then again, I don't belong to his union.
It's kind of ridiculous. No matter what the teachers do in low achieving areas, such as teaching the test, never approximate the high scores, the students get in Kansas, Iowa, and other middle America states.
ReplyDeleteThe make up of their classrooms is different.
Each school district should select and be responsible for its own curriculum.
Democrats can't force people to do the thing THEY happen to think are good. You notice if always if they do or do not like something they try to make a law over it. They are not satisfied just doing what they want, they want to force others to do the same.
I don't particularly like putting straight jackets around state laws, or trying to define step by step what each student should learn at what stage. (I've been well received as a tutor, but couldn't make heads or tails of the gobbledegook language that tries to parse educational "standards"). I'm no friend of standardized tests either.
ReplyDeleteBut most of what is being said by those railing against Common Core has about as much common sense basis as denying evolutionary biology, or that Neal Armstrong walked on the moon, or claiming that the plane that hit the Pentagon with thousands of stranded morning rush hour commuters watching from surrounding freeways was really a missile.
Miggie is a case in point. He seems to think Common Core is a Democratic Party platform plank. Its actually the work of superintendents of schools from all fifty states, acting with no federal mandate, and wasn't a partisan issue until the looniest of the Republican base made it one. Its no better and no worse than what's been going on in education for the past twenty years. Which ain't saying much, but a lot of loonies are hyperventilating over a cause that really ain't saying much either.
Comrade Siarlyski (or is it more properly "sky", as in Trotsky??), you appear to have missed (or conveniently ignored??) the primary thrust of Gary's post, which is the inherent/implied, if not actual, threat of union violence. This threat is not necessarily rhetorical, as evidenced by the pictured SEIU goon as well as by the actions of Teamsters and many other unions with considerable scope and frequency (try Googling "union violence").
ReplyDeleteAnd this from not only a union president but a teacher/former math teacher. What a role model for our kids and other teachers!!!
" We will use testing to advance real learning, not undermine it, by developing high-quality assessments that measure the complex skills students need to develop. We will make sure that federal law operates with high standards and common sense, not just bureaucratic rigidity."
ReplyDeleteSource: The Democratic Platform for America, p.31-32 , Jul 10, 2004.
As always, the asshole school bus driver, Siralys, doesn't know what he is talking about. His sole intention is to demean those who have accomplished something in their lives as if that would make up for his pathetic existence.
Thanks, Elwood, for posting this remark as I would not have re-visited this thread because I have blocked this jerk Siarlys. He always misses the point on the issue and brings up irrelevant and erroneous items in order to insult.
It's better to just ignore him and let him rant.
Miggie doth protest too much. For someone who has "blocked" me, he obviously feels wounded enough every time I post to rabidly reply.
ReplyDeleteelwood... you are being coherent, but wrong. The difference between Trotsky and Stalin is that the former never got a chance to ACT on his blueprints, which were actually more bloody, and likely would have been less productive. Keep the Russian out of it until you learn you to say "comrade" in Welsh. (I have an old cassette of the Internationale being sung in the language).
But those remarks were just window dressing. On to substance. Gary is ALWAYS running numbers about union "thugs." That's like saying the son rises in the east and cows give milk but bulls don't. Gary's main headline was "Common Core" and the rest was subsidiary.
I'm nostalgiac for the days when anyone trying to drive through a union picket line could get their car turned over, but what Gary is talking about here is purely rhetorical.
Siarlys--I can barely say it in English, let alone any other language.
ReplyDeleteAnd I for my part have never called you Comrade, although I may have called you elmer or elmo occasionally.
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