tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post7216432490008244245..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: Teachers! And other union thugs!Zenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-22752283638273747192011-07-31T07:06:41.977-07:002011-07-31T07:06:41.977-07:00Texas? No, we ain't hiring teachers, 'spe...Texas? No, we ain't hiring teachers, 'specially none o' them California nuts. <br /><br />We're two weeks from teachers heading back to school, and in Dallas, there is not yet a decision that there won't be new layoff notices before then. <br /><br />It's against the law for teachers to do anything like collective bargaining, or that looks like collective bargaining, in Texas -- especially striking. We're allowed to affiliate with the national unions, and it's a good idea because they will provide support and representation if a student or anyone else complains -- and as God and Rick Perry know, the schools will never support a teacher in a dispute (including disputes over such things as whether that student had the right to murder the teacher). <br /><br />I used to wonder about people who don't like teachers and make up stories about how easy they have it, and how they deserve to be kicked around. I thought, perhaps, they got bad grades as a child.<br /><br />After 8 years of teaching in the public schools, I recognize they are just stupid, probably stupider than I thought they were when I was a student and when I worked education policy in Washington. <br /><br />Teachers are being hired in communities around a certain nuclear power plant in Japan, I hear -- but nowhere else in the U.S. is hiring considered good.Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-6537011096296063052011-07-25T11:18:10.429-07:002011-07-25T11:18:10.429-07:00Texas isn't in a heat wave. It's called su...<i>Texas isn't in a heat wave. It's called summer.</i><br /><br />The Department of Meteorology at Texas A&M says that June 2011 was the hottest June in recorded Texas history, so I think I'm sticking with the notion that Texas is in a heat wave as well as a well-documented drought.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-59997400911714710272011-07-25T10:56:48.751-07:002011-07-25T10:56:48.751-07:00Texas isn't in a heat wave. It's called s...Texas isn't in a heat wave. It's called summer. <br /><br />I'm not so sure preventing closed shops is such a bad idea. If you want to join a union and take advantage of its benefits, you can. The UAW has just as strong a foothold in Arlington TX as it has in Detroit. If, however, an individual doesn't want to avail him/herself of a union's benefits that choice should be available and there should be no compulsion to pay.<br /><br />In many things I am a liberal - in the case of unions I tend to be in more of a "take 'em or leave 'em" position. Historically, they were good things, but I'm not so sure that they keep the big picture in sight any better than your average politician does.CJ :)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-70592661538031903042011-07-23T12:33:43.060-07:002011-07-23T12:33:43.060-07:00Zeno added:
"...Blomgren could always consid...Zeno added:<br /><br />"...Blomgren could always consider moving to one of the idyllic 'Right to Work' states where he could cheerfully work with lower pay and less job security. I hear Texas is hiring..."<br /><br />Not only that, if the religious-righties there keep pushing hard enough, Blomgren might even get to teach geocentrism in his Physics courses someday!<br /><br /><br /><br />Then there's this aspect of the Texas curriculum:<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-lawrence-otto/rick-perry-abstinence_b_904115.html<br /><br />My favorite line re sex-ed is near the end of the article, where Perry vouches that "I'm just going to tell you from my own personal life, abstinence works."Kathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1517396592297002422011-07-23T09:17:48.828-07:002011-07-23T09:17:48.828-07:00Oh Zee, you sly boots ;-)Oh Zee, you sly boots ;-)Kathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-69166138435819621612011-07-22T15:38:59.666-07:002011-07-22T15:38:59.666-07:00Kathie, I used a tool called "the Internet.&q...Kathie, I used a tool called "<a href="http://www.ratemyteachers.com/kinsey-blomgren/210054-t" rel="nofollow">the Internet</a>." ;-)Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-23433191996804098862011-07-22T10:37:20.515-07:002011-07-22T10:37:20.515-07:00Zee, how do you know that Kinsey isn't a "...Zee, how do you know that Kinsey isn't a "she"? That was my initial reaction.Kathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-35132177614691351542011-07-22T03:44:31.294-07:002011-07-22T03:44:31.294-07:00Perhaps Mr. Blomgren figured that liberal San Fran...Perhaps Mr. Blomgren figured that liberal San Franciscans are too stupid to find Springville on a Google map, so he associated himself with the nearest Big Town.Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-47191494859475035102011-07-22T02:53:00.241-07:002011-07-22T02:53:00.241-07:00The most reasonable explanation is that Mr. Blomgr...The most reasonable explanation is that Mr. Blomgren lives in both Porterville and Springville. When you are a <a href="http://zenoferox.blogspot.com/2010/07/wheres-my-money.html" rel="nofollow">millionaire</a>, it's easy to own several homes.Miki Z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02974670188688656295noreply@blogger.com