Union Calls for Emergency Meeting

[TeacherThoughts]

The union calls an emergency meeting for Monday! The school district wants to cut certified staff positions! If your a teacher, make sure you show up at 4:15pm at the union hall!

[JazminH]

you teach grammar?

[WT Reader]

Certainly not good grammar ("your" rather than "your'e as an example).
However, the poster makes reference to an "emergent" matter.

While distressful IF a teacher actually made this posting, the urgency
of the matter at hand may have caused the "emergency meeting" notice
to be poorly published.

A case of fear and angst possibly overruling a presentation using
proper grammar.

I am neither condoning nor excusing such poor grammar usage; just
my surmisal of what may have occured here.

[Harold]

You're both wrong, but I guess we should expect that from the education progressives who brought our national curriculum these teaching method disasters: whole language; learn how to learn; multiculturalism; postmodernism; and social justice teaching. If it were up to me I would grab the lot of you and send you all to reeducation camps in an attempt to reestablish your collective sanity. Our public school students deserve better than what the NEA is currently providing as "educated", or more accurately, socially indoctrinated professionals. I thought a teacher was supposed to be smart enough to avoid being brainwashed. God help us. Harold Beadling P.S. Why don't you try this on for size,WT-- "you're"-- it's correct, look it up in your people's dictionary

[WT Reader]

You're both wrong, but I guess we should expect that from the education progressives who brought our national curriculum these teaching method disasters: whole language; learn how to learn; multiculturalism; postmodernism; and social justice teaching. If it were up to me I would grab the lot of you and send you all to reeducation camps in an attempt to reestablish your collective sanity. Our public school students deserve better than what the NEA is currently providing as "educated", or more accurately, socially indoctrinated professionals. I thought a teacher was supposed to be smart enough to avoid being brainwashed. God help us. Harold Beadling P.S. Why don't you try this on for size,WT-- "you're"-- it's correct, look it up in your people's dictionary

"You're" vs "your" in this referenced context is clearer, more specific and better understood. Hence, it is better grammar.

[TeacherThoughts]

I apologize for my poor grammer! I was a in a hurry! I was just trying to share some news. However, since there was more concern about my grammer than the news, I'll just keep what was shared today to myself.

[Harold]

Hello, Highly educated Union Member/Teacher! That's g-r-a-m-m-a-r. Let me give you some good advice; shut your piehole; open your eyes; learn to listen; be grateful for your employment, and beware of the coming wrath of the trampled-on taxpayer/voter. Harold Beadling 32 year member of The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

[Historian Frank]

You fools are sitting here arguing about your second grade grammar knowledge while missing the entire point. TEACHERS ARE GOING TO GET FIRED. Get your heads out of the sand. There was plenty of outrage when they were going to lay off a few cops...what about now?

[Historian Frank]

Hello, Highly educated Union Member/Teacher! That's g-r-a-m-m-a-r. Let me give you some good advice; shut your piehole; open your eyes; learn to listen; be grateful for your employment, and beware of the coming wrath of the trampled-on taxpayer/voter. Harold Beadling 32 year member of The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

You especially...your grammar is a trainwreck. But I don't care. You're a blue collar union guy and I like that. Just take it down a notch...you are becoming a parody of yourself, who was already a parody of something not worth parodying.




/edited for grammar. see what I did there?

[Bupkes]

So, there were lots of union people and principals who turned out for the budget workshop and heard the talk about the proposed cuts.

The union would have learned a lot more if they had had some representation stay and hear the service and operations meeting that followed. The new HR director gave a great presentation on teacher recruiting strategies for District. 60. Can you say "ironic timing" anyone? Maybe the union needs to have a rep. at these meetings in the future, if they know what's good for them.

Firing expensive teachers and replacing them with cheaper rookie teachers seems to be what the writing on the wall says. Granted, when the budget crisis is over, our district needs to have ways to attract and retain good teachers. At any rate, people better start paying closer attention and asking the right questions.