Among other understandings, teachers of America's elementary and high
school students were always expected to set examples for their
students.
Aside from the
obvious of not seducing their students, public school teachers were
expected to establish a certain sense of decorum, which mandate in my
school district incorporated into the union contract the allowance:
"Male teachers are permitted to remove their jackets in the classroom."
Times have changed. Radically.
Teacher-student
assignations have become almost commonplace, student behavior has gone
far beyond tossing spitballs and chewing gum, and teacher dress codes
have gone the way of high-buttoned shoes. Aside from teachers hitting on
students, other behavioral modifications on the part of teachers are
much less forgivable, especially when the example they are setting is
one of extreme misbehavior and lawlessness.
Teachers and other
public servants in Wisconsin have the same rights accorded to every
American under the First Amendment to the Constitution's prohibition
against infringement on freedom of speech, interference with the right
to peaceably assemble, and the right of petitioning governmental redress
of grievances.
What teachers do not have the right or privilege
to do is to disgrace themselves and their profession, to break laws, to
interfere with government functions, or to shamelessly trash both their
profession and themselves by allowing teacher and outside thugs to
direct and dictate their criminal activities.
In Wisconsin,
teachers protesting new Republican Governor Scott Walker's attempts to
clean up the fiscal mess he inherited have reached new lows in their
efforts to resist limitations on collective bargaining rights.
Despite
Walker's offers of compromise, Wisconsin "educators" have abandoned
their classroom responsibilities by calling in sick in droves,
falsifying medical "sick notes," committing outright slander against
their duly-elected representatives, and resorting to the same bullying
tactics they decry in their schools, all of which are condoned by the
nation's Bully-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama
Acting more like
semi-civilized Third Worlders instead of American student role models,
their protests are costing millions. Their illegal seizure, occupation,
and trashing of the Capitol building in Madison have, to date, resulted
in some $7.5 million in damages and clean-up costs for their
cash-strapped state, costs to be borne by already overburdened
taxpayers: "Estimates of damage to marble includes $6 million to repair
damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and
$500,000 for costs to supervise the damage."
The teacher and other
unions reached rock bottom with death threats designed to intimidate
not only Republican legislators who are struggling to achieve some
fiscal sanity in the Badger State but their families as well.
One
unedited, 2 paragraph email included the following polite threat which
was more akin to a promise, replete with specific details on how the
murders would occur:
"Please put your things in order because you
will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions
in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we
get rid of you and your families then itwill save the rights of 300,000
people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I
hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on
possible scenarios in which you will die... So we have also built
several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas
in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car,
the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them because that's
just no fun."
The email concluded with, "Please make your peace
with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will
not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!."
(In late Wisconsin news,
the disruptive unionists were forcibly removed from the Capitol by
police in order for the legislators-sans Democrat senators who were
still in hiding-to conduct the state's business.)
It's not mere
coincidence that, as pandemonium reigns in Madison, chaotic failure
reigns in America's public schools. Obama's Education Secretary Arnie
Duncan, who had previously officiated at Chicago's record education
failures, tore into George W. Bush's 2002 "No Child Left Behind"
education reform law.
In effect, Duncan doesn't like NCLB's
reasonable standards because they have worked too well. However, over
the course of nine years America's teachers, school administrators, and
state education departments were not capable of raising student and math
skills. He "stressed the law is fundamentally broken and needs to be
fixed this year, otherwise he forecast 82 percent of the schools [some
80,000 of 100,000] could miss testing targets. That would be up from 37
percent in 2010."
NCLB left too many kids behind and therefore
should be revamped to make it appear as if those left behind really
should be considered as doing just fine since the NCLB requisites were,
well, too exacting and unreasonable.
Lower standards sufficiently
and orangutans could graduate, and teachers and administrators and
states would be off the hook. It's much easier to lower standards than
to raise edcational levels.
Duncan's scheme-which is widely
opposed-is the rough equivalent of the Wisconsin teachers' schemes in
that they both are exercises in deception. Duncan wants to give up on
improving education so more students can feel good about being nimrods.
In Wisconsin, they're pretending to be protesting on principles and
preserving rights whereas they are really attempting to perpetrate a
venal fraud.
