Comments on: Union President Calls Parents “Lynch Mobs”

By: Mike Palo

Mike Palo — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:32:43 +0000

Since I am a teacher in California, I have witnessed firsthand the struggle with teaching in this state considering the budget cuts and the national economic situation. I currently teach in somewhat of a low income school district, and I have seen the current effects of how our current budget system in the state of California is affecting our students. We are expected to do more with less and considering California’s rigorous standards, the job of a teacher will only become more difficult. Race to the Top seems like a step in the right direction for California schools, but will giving more power to parents in low income school districts to “pull the plug” on failing schools really be the answer?

By: mathcurmudgeon

mathcurmudgeon — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:09:55 +0000

Interesting point there, Ed and others. “But they simply title all parents complainers and do whatever the school system wants to do because they are smarter than the people in the outside world.”

I have been a teacher for nearly 30 years. I have run both public and private schools. I have reset a shoulder and been a first aid specialist (coach) but I am not a doctor or a psychiatrist. You would never ask me for medical advice for depression or the optimal way to deal with a compound boot-top fracture.

If you want to know about teaching, ask a teacher like me. Assuming that all teachers and schools are “against” you or only out for a quick buck is just a ridiculous as a school claiming all parents are wingnuts or a education Watch Dawg who says that “King Jack misses the mark on dealing with bus drivers, teachers, parents concerns, budgeting, ethics, transfer policy, and his refusal to host public meetings where he and or the BoE may face the angry mob aka us peasants!”

For what its worth, I’m not in favor of the provision because it sounds a lot it will encourage every education fad that anyone can dream up. We’ve been through most of these fads before.
http://mathcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/01/cft-and-lynch-mob-quote.html

That they didn’t work is because they were flawed, nothing else.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:44:06 +0000

Elected board of education members and school administrators in Maryland should be ashamed too. But they simply title all parents complainers and do whatever the school system wants to do because they are smarter than the people in the outside world.

http://calvertcountypublicschoolswatchdawg.blogspot.com

By: Read: Diversity Department || Dropout Nation

Read: Diversity Department || Dropout Nation — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:36:40 +0000

[...] Antonucci notes that the president of the AFT’s California affiliate has some choice thoughts about parents [...]

By: Rhymes With Right

Rhymes With Right — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:35:07 +0000

Actually, it sounds to me like a lynch mob might just be in order in this instance. Hittelman’s characterization of parents who seek to control the education of their children — indeed, of taxpayers who seek to control the operation of the schools that they fund — is disgraceful. Hittelman is the best argument for de-recognizing public employee unions (and in particular teachers unions) that this teacher has ever seen.