Nevada Ground Report: How are the teachers’ unions ruining that state?
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Dear HillBuzz,
I am currently training to become a teacher here in Southern Nevada and I feel I must make some points. I don’t have problems with school teachers who do their job and have respect for their students. I’ve met many of them and I believe they are working for the right reasons. If I ultimately become a teacher, I won’t be like the idiots in Wisconsin.
Being that it’s sponsored by the local school district, politics inevitably becomes a part of the training. I have heard professors/instructors directly and indirectly bash Sharron Angle, Jim Gibbons and Brian Sandoval throughout the last year in the middle of a few lectures. The professors complain about funding and pay cuts, despite being given gobs of money for vain green projects, identity politics studies, bad sports teams and barely teaching at all (*cough* Dina Titus *cough*). One of the professors in my college moaned about budget cuts towards public employee pay in Nevada as ”being taxes on 10% of Nevadans” and that every Nevadan should have their taxes raised instead. I’m sure there will be protests here. The Dems still have legislative majorities, but no longer the 2/3′s needed to override the Republican Governor.
Aside from trying to get rid of Harry Reid, our state is failing at other things. I believe Nevada is behind in education, because the university system is focusing on training teachers how to be social engineers. The administrators are mostly teachers who didn’t want to do all of the paperwork and planning that teachers must do, but get more pay. We have taxpayer funded lobbyists and a diversity department which are both useless leeches in our educational cesspool. Also, the new superintendent is some crook from Colorado.
As for the big issues in education, some professors can’t come up with any opinion on No Child Left Behind. They hate it (probably because of Bush), yet love it and talk about the transparency and accountability it provides (cliche, I know). They support total inclusion all the way for special ed students and are big on multiculturalism/pc. There is a consensus among the academic elite here that educational power standards should be left to the feds instead of the states. The expensive and non-refundable textbooks are pretty biased. The book, “Behavior Management: Applications for Teachers” cites socialist shrink BF Skinner as one of the greats in behavior science. The book even pushes for increased government funding for social welfare programs in one of it’s later chapters.
This seems pretty relevant to the issue of public education and what’s going on in Wisconsin. There’s something for everyone here and I hope people get involved in their own ways, in their home states, however they can to do something about this.
-Adam R., Las Vegas, NV
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The Wisconsin teachers are, for the most part, a “mixed bag”. There are many who have been effectively “brainwashed” the same way so many lifelong Dem’s have been. Until they have the blinders taken off somehow they will continue to not have minds of their own, but just parrot what they are told by the D’s and the union bosses.
Others may not agree with what they are doing personally, but are going along with it out of fear. They are getting called by their unions and told to go. They know the unions have power (at least to this point) where if they refuse it’d be (in a way) like being a “scab” and crossing the union line. They are afraid that at the end the union will have won (as usual) and if they didn’t go along with it they will be out of a job at best, and possibly not only out of a job, but also personally attacked as a “scab”.
Just like the D party power itself, breaking the union power will involve breaking a mafia-type grip of power as well as breaking a lifelong (or decade long) mind control. While not easy, it isn’t impossible, as we see from so many lifelong D’s in here who now see things more clearly than they did prior to 2008.
Attention taxpayers & tea party activists:
The purple shirt thugs are coming to your town.
Here’s the current schedule over the next
four days nationwide via the SEIU website.
All hands on deck!
http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/forum/topic/show?id=2600775%3ATopic%3A3244567&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
I also live in Nevada – rural Nevada that is, in most respects, different from the metro areas. However, the University system has already had their “students” out in my location protesting the proposed changes in the University system by the new Republican Governor. Ironically, he is proposing exactly what the University system has been saying should be done for the last 10 years and that is that they not be supported by the State General Fund but rather exist as a separate entity…meaning they would have to live on whatever they can get by with from tuition and any and all either grants, alumni donations or fund-raising. Now that it is actually being proposed, all of a sudden it will not work.
People are sick to death of illiterate high school graduates. I was a member of an advisory board for illiteracy for many years and the rate of “functionally” illiterate at the high school level is over 60% – that means the graduates cannot read any highter than a 4th grade level, do not have “financial” skills (balance a bank account or write a check), nor have an “adequate” command of the English language (can’t write and don’t have BASIC grammer skills).
Why the hell should anyone in their right mind support the teacher’s union when they are producing a bunch of unemployable people that cannot function outside of working in a rote environment such as McDonalds?
The illiteracy numbers in California are even worse and do keep in mind the state has a nearly 50% drop rate measured on the basis of 9th grade entrants that get a diploma.
80% o the first time takers of the high school exit exam have fourth grade and lower arithmetic skills (notice I did not say math I watched in terror for the forty years I was in the classroom (196-2006)the ever worsening performance of students, the lowering of academic standards, and after 1985 the decline in the intellectual capabilities of new entrant teachers. Today’s young teachers are truly the losers of academia. The bright women who once filled the ranks of the teacher corp are now doctors, lawyers, dentists, pharmacists, and MBA’s. Teaching now gets s the dumb ‘goil” who sat in the back of the room in silence but copied evverything neatly.
Men have largely been driven out of teaching by gender PC and the ever present real threat of sexual harrassment charges.
These liberals are so entrenched in every institution, it seems impossible to beat them. This post is so depressing. We need a revolution.
It is not my intention to depress, but to shed light on and inspire solutions to liberal problems. Feel motivated to do great things instead of feeling hopeless.
The problems listed here are nationwide, in particular the absurd salaries for administration at non-teaching level jobs. Many non teaching pencil pushers at the front office make one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars a year in my Georgia County (Dekalb).
A teacher with a master’s degree makes 30 to 40 thousand less yearly. Ours isn’t a union problem ( although I detest unions). Our problem is that many of these same individuals are related to current or former school board members or administrators. Other ways to get on the gravy train : belong to Bishop Eddie Long’s church (google what he’s been up to lately).
There’s even high end salaries because they joined the proper black sorority. Don’t just revolt against unions: revolt against nepotism, corruption, and graft.
Also, NCLB is one of the WORST decisions that occurred under Bush. Parents in my county actually root for their schools not to make Average Yearly Progress.
The reason? The schools that actually succeed wind up getting dumped on in the next year with hundreds of transfer students from failing schools. The brand new middle school in my neighborhood had 350 new 6th graders show up the first week of school from failing schools after it made AYP the first year it was open. Horrible law.
They are trying in atlantic Ga. the typical. It is Bush's fault "no child left behind" put to much pressure on the teachers and administrators they had to cheat.