http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg
Dear Ones:
It's not often that I will use the word 'honest' with anything 'progressive-lib Dem', but here I am. Here film maker Davis Guggenheim (known for his "An Inconvenient Truth") gets it right. FINALLY, what I have been saying about the 'dumbing down' of our kids through our school systems for a l-o-n-g---t-i-m-e is DOCUMENTED in a most poignant and heartbreaking way.
"It's the age old debate. How do we keep our kids in school and keep them motivated when it's hard enough to get them to class?. Once there, as the film points out, they've got a 50-50 chance that their teacher will actually be a decent teacher. According to Guggenheim, the system is so broken, bad teachers are allowed to stay, even if it's been proven they are performing poorly in the classroom. Everybody knows who they are, but there's nothing administrators can do. The film points to union contracts and tenure, saying they often give teachers a solid spot in the classroom. Good or bad." LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lu-parker/superman-reminded-me_b_739105.html
Yes, it's rough stuff, but healing must begin with a purging and cleansing of all PUTRID MATTER before healthy 'tissue' growth can occur and flourish and replace the bad. This movie may well be a part of that process for our school systems, on a national as well as on a local level.
But we'll just have to wait and see if anyone is actually MOTIVATED TO ACTION.
Inertia seems to 'rule the day' when it comes to BIG AND INTIMIDATING ALBATROSSES such as TEACHERS and other UNIONS.
The bottom-line is that people are SCARED of the UNIONS and are scared of making WAVES with UNIONS.
It's sad, really. During my poor childhood years, Pop was always a blue-collar champion of employee working conditions as an independent safety engineer.
I keep in me to this day his horror stories of avoidable foundry accidents, amputation injuries, machinery malfunctions, etc to the point that I didn't want to eat a hot dog or lick an envelope ever again and that was the least of it!
Over and over, my blue-collar Dad emphasized how 'the UNIONS' were there to 'protect the guys'. Unfortunately, I also overheard him discussing the INTIMIDATION against company bosses and their properties. After one-too-many 'spiking' stories, I began to have nightmares that my own father would be hurt, himself by getting mixed up in a scuffle.
He wasn't, because he was roundly well-liked, but what did I know? Dad fought his heart out for what he believed in--and as his first 'son', I was taught to do so also.
UNIONS CAN DO SO MUCH GOOD, PEOPLE! USE THE POWER YOU HAVE TO DO SO NOW. BE BRAVE AND TAKE ACTION AND HAVE THE COURAGE OF YOUR CONVICTIONS, ALL OF YOU...AND ESPECIALLY YOU TEACHERS' UNIONS MEMBERS!
I suppose the timing couldn't be any better for this film 'WAITING FOR SUPERMAN' to be achieving the notoriety it has.
Speaking of Unions and 'intimidation', even here in Stamford, CT, controversy has arisen over the use of a book "It's Perfectly Normal" in the Stamford school system. You can read about this graphic sex book which found it's way into the reading bins of TEN YEAR OLDS here:
http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2010/09/stamford-schools-use-sex-book-for.html
I'd love nothing better than to be able to officially inform all Stamford parents and other taxpayers that "It's Perfectly Normal" has not and will not reach the hands of any students too young to be able to handle such a graphic sex book. But, alas, no one has been forthcoming, so all I can ask is, "Parents, do you know what's in your child's reading bin?"
It has been brought to my attention that any CONCERNED PARENTS, TEACHERS and other TAXPAYERS can attend a Community Forum on Sept 30, 2010 at Westover Magnet School at 7:00 pm with their questions/comments.
I may not be one to 'wait for Superman'...but I wouldn't mind waiting on some fierce LEADER-TYPE noble educators to 'smarten up' and start organizing for their students instead of for their selves.
'Organizations' never do any good--it's the brave and selfless souls in them who do it and and, boy, do we need some now.
God Bless You,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
email: BarbaraKSexton@aol.com
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