On 03/06/2004 06:47 AM, Tom_Walker wrote:

>
> Wel lIF we cound get rid of the "Teachers UNION" and start Educating
>our Own kids so they could communicate it would slow down a little bit.
>I would FAR perfer to Communitate with a person with some Education,
>Even with the minor Language problems, rather then the Typical
>Illeterate fools we Graduate form our education system..  :-(   :-(

Tom: 

It is hard to look past the poor spelling, capitalization and grammar in
your above post. Perhaps you needed to perform better in school, or you are
mildly dyslexic (like I believe I am sometimes).   You already have the
option of homeschooling your children, if you are dissatisfied with the
education your kids are getting in school.   If you chose this option,
you'd have the obligation and responsibility  to be there doing it instead
of reliing on someone else to do it.  Homeschooling has its advantages, as
well as its drawbacks.   

Teachers in public schools have their hands tied in the classroom, with no
ability to address poor discipline less they trample some kid's rights.
They must engage in valiant attempts to get students to pass poorly
contrived standardized tests to "demonstrate performance", rather
than teaching kids how to reason and be responible for their actions. Their
antiquated and outdated classrooms are filled with kids that do not know
how to behave, how to listen to instruction, how to take notes, or how to
do research.  These kids do not know how to organize initial ideas into a
structured theme, nor do they know how to develop them  with supporting
data.  Many cannot communicate effectively  because English is not their
primary language. Some are being socailly promoted because of fears
concerning their  behavior when they are placed in classrooms full of much
younger kids -  you'd better believe that these kids know how to exploit
the problems in the system right now -0 and this has nothing to to wiith
teachers unions.

Blaming the teachers for trying to get the same collective bargaining
rights that actors, athletes and other proferssionals enjoy is rediculous.
Unions were established for one reason, to ensure that check-and-balance
conditions exist. Without them underage kids would still be working in
swaetshop factories, and losing limbs as well as their lives.  Corparations
would be running roughshod over their employees and working people would be
far worse off than they are now. 

A better solution is to economically penalize corporations that are so
concerned with the current bottom line, that they have forgotten where
their success came from - The customers and employees that are right in the
communities where they got their start, the customers in the same country
where they got their start. If they decide to relocate their business
elsewhere, then first make it cost them a lot of money to accomplish the
move, and then disbar them from doing business here if they still elect to
move offshore.  

This may appear to be a protectionist stance, but for too long the
consumers and government have been greasing the exit ramp.   Today's
workers have families who are today's consumers and tommorow's workforce.
Put the blame where it belongs.  These guys have been getting tax breaks
and other incentives that working class people and small businesses do not
get, and that lost income is needed not to be squandered or kicked back to
some fat cat, but to really fix things.

I'm not a teacher - I couldn't do the job, because I couldn't put up with
the crap they do.  I'm an engineer who'se job is identifying problems and
proposing solutions to them. Unfortunately,  I cannot solve them because I
have to get those who do not understand them  (Management) to recognize
that they are probelms first, and second grant the authority to those who
can solve them.  Does this problem sound familiar?

Rant mode off:
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