Yeah, I haven't been posting in a long while. I've been terribly busy with my education and the education of others. But my employer (a conservatively run school district with a very conservative right wing nut BOE and their hand picked superintendent) has been waging an insidious war on teachers and related educators this year, so I feel the need to say something. They're out to destroy the district by destroying the union and chasing away great experienced teachers. They're doing this all in the name of "reform." But really it's the corporate greed monster that feeds them. The board of education for this district is almost all right wing nuts whose campaigns were funded directly and indirectly by organizations like ALEC.
Meanwhile, there has also been a War on Women being waged by generally the same right wing nuts. Dorothy Snarker put it well today in her blog. As I hope my 3 remaining readers know, there is a concerted effort by the republican party to take away women's rights over their own bodies that has become much more focused and actually has gained some traction even though a majority of people probably think these ideas will fade away if they just ignore them. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure at this point the right wing nuts are HOPING people will ignore them long enough for them to revoke our freedoms. So below is my response to Dorothy Snarker's blog post:
Might I add that concurrently there is also a War on Education! I think
there is a HUGE correlation between these two "planks" of the right
wing nuts. There is a lot of money behind these so called
movements...or as I like to call them "bowel movements." Ignorance
begets more ignorance which begets a serious loss of freedom! I do not
think the middle of the road average American is really aware of this
because the right wing nuts have them focused on the almighty tax dollar
and how many they could be losing. Of course, if they REALLY
understood money they'd realize that the lack of a good free education
leads to LESS income and LESS freedom. And it appears that the right
wing nuts see women's rights as the biggest roadblock to the dumbing
down of the American society...hmmmm. Come to think of it, education is
one the largest employers of women. After all, if you keep women
uneducated and pregnant you'll end up with a huge source of cheap dumb
labor...and much larger profits. But seriously you stupid right wing
nuts, who really wants to live in a country with no creativity, no arts,
no intellectual advances, and no real freedom? I mean, do you really
want the USA to become a rather large third world country?
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3 comments:
I get bothered when local conservatives complain that our public schools are nothing more than liberal indoctrination centers with the sole purpose of producing Democrats. How can that be, when the pedigree for the majority of the teachers in the area is Jerry Falwell's Liberty University?
Apparently it's okay to be hypocritical and bigoted all at once...and still think you're oh so righteous about education being so awful because it's some kind of bastion of liberalism...
We do NEED our experienced teachers.
I hope they get treated right!
xo
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