How the Teachers Union Broke Public Education
A former public school teacher documents the profound betrayal of America’s students
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Quite a word salad.How the Teachers Union Broke Public Education
A former public school teacher documents the profound betrayal of America’s students
always being the absolute dumbest....
characterizing being banned for making racist and antisemetic posts as an assault on "conservatives" misses the point that the reason they were banned was NOT their political affiliation...it was the racist and antisemetic content
figure it out, dummy
Do you dispute that characterization? If so, how? Mask up dummy or you'll kill someone's granny.
This is why right wingers aren't funny.
The straw man as a comedic device just makes the person who creates the straw man seem dumb or like he got his feelings hurt.
But right wingers have no ability to laugh at themselves.
When I worked in the private sector I thought unions were totally unnecessary, rusty relics from a previous age. Then I became a teacher and discovered the off-the-charts levels of animosity, disdain, and disrespect school district administration has for the people that do the actual business of the district, which is teaching kids. I think it comes from not attaching a cost to teachers' time. The idea is, "We can give teachers more BS work to do, since their time doesn't cost us anything. We can staff up downtown and then plead poverty during salary negotiations, keeping their salaries low." This philosophy is baked into the DNA of every district, or so it seems; it defines the district/teacher relationship.How the Teachers Union Broke Public Education
A former public school teacher documents the profound betrayal of America’s students
Teachers want more money and smaller class sizes. All the rest of that crap Mr. Guttentag is bellyaching about is sideshow material, at least in my bright blue coastal SoCal town. Unions may be a necessary evil, but they're really necessary!
Freedom AND liberty? Wow!
Did you not follow the rules? When restaurants asked you to wear a mask, did you refuse?
Who audits the district?
This seems to be the crux (or at least a pillar) of the issue.
This is a byproduct of collective bargaining. If individual teachers were able to negotiate their own compensation the cream will rise to the top. Those willing to put in more work and produce better results will be rewarded.
As it is now there’s no financial incentive for teachers to perform better and there’s no financial cost to admins for getting extra effort from teachers.
I mean why work harder when lazy joe gets paid the same and why pay more for better outcomes when admins don’t have to?
When I worked at Cornell the only people who were union was the custodial staff and they had the worst pay, worst benefits, most inflexible schedules and were the least happy about their employment.
Their union reps made some good money though…
maybe it’s because they were custodial staff.
Can you imagine how large LAUSD’s HR departmEnt would need to be for every teacher at every school In every grade to negotiate a contract every few years?
I wonder if this strategy could be applied to police and fire and military?
Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults - PubMed
The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes. These analyses will require public release of participant level datasets.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nothing to see here. Vaccines are perfectly safe and adverse events extremely rare, I read it here first!
"The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group;"Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults - PubMed
The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes. These analyses will require public release of participant level datasets.
Nothing to see here. Vaccines are perfectly safe and adverse events extremely rare, I read it here first!
.0000068 is 36% higher than .000005....
what's the baseline?
Difference of 18 people per 10K cases. Multiply that by hundreds of millions and that's a lot of people. Why the gaslighting?
Yes, a fraction of a percent- just like Covid deaths
Over placebo. What about over Covid?"The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group;"Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults - PubMed
The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes. These analyses will require public release of participant level datasets.
Nothing to see here. Vaccines are perfectly safe and adverse events extremely rare, I read it here first!
Irrelevant? Did someone say the vaccine didn’t have risk? Are any vaccines risk free?
Have you had the shingles vaccine? It’s a doozy.