An honest article, whose author may be catalogued as one of innumerable well-intentioned constituents co-opted by grifting Marxists.
You need to be able to just say no.
Andrew Vanbarner
4 months ago
Community schools would be unnecessary if parents were competent, and perhaps even living with and married to their children’s fathers.
Dads count. Supporting a family financially provides them with far better life outcomes than the table scraps of the welfare state. Sorry, ladies. You still need us, well after the pregnancy test comes back positive.
Schools also exist for the sole purpose of teaching literacy, numeracy, and a set of objectively true facts.
They were never meant to be soup kitchens, nor indoctrination centers. That they often are is why so few of the truly poor are able to go on to selective universities.
Teachers are supposed to teach, and in secondary schools they should primarily be teaching literacy and numeracy. They do our children – and our society – no favors by being far left activists.
Ethniciodo Rodenydo
4 months ago
Sack the lot. They will not be missed and think about the damage they are doing to your children
Malcolm Webb
4 months ago
The point about Activists abusing / subverting the democratic process is a very good one
c hutchinson
4 months ago
Can’t wait for AI to replace the social warrior educator.
Mary Bruels
4 months ago
This article highlights a good reason to home school your children. The teachers unions are no longer interested in teaching children how to read, write, and analyze problems.
Steve Jolly
4 months ago
The author sounds like a fairly sensible moderate, and I sympathize with their plight. Being a resident of rural America, I have the opposite problem, but I have no children to be concerned about, and it is infinitely cheaper and easier to live in Trump country with rednecks, whatever their flaws, than I suspect it would be to live in Oakland or anywhere else in the woe begotten state of California. To be charitable, California has several serious problems that won’t be easily remedied. A notable one is that the state has become a one party state, like China or Russia. In a one-party state, conformity is enforced and dissent is punished. It begins with extremists of the other side, but continues on to moderates and centrists, until everyone is marching to the same tune, whatever the party decides. If the problem is an entrenched group of hardcore activist types dictating and enforcing policy, may I suggest that the most expedient solution is to leave California if at all possible. Of course I don’t mean they need to go to Texas or Florida and rub elbows with *gasp* Trump supporters. I’m thinking Minnesota, Colorado, Maine, or maybe not so distant Nevada. There are still places where the left hasn’t become completely unhinged. You’d have plenty of company, as leaving California seems to be all the rage these days.
Last edited 4 months ago by Steve Jolly
Martin Bollis
4 months ago
Not sure I can go along with the differentiation between the teachers and their leaders. The teachers still have to strike. If they do so on such a premise they forfeit the right to sympathy or support.
Vicha Unkow
4 months ago
N fought S obvious over economics and finally slavery. About less than 2% owned slaves, Black, White and Native.
Terry Raby
4 months ago
Makes inescapable the role teachers see for themselves – not as educators but activists for irrelevant causes. In California, I suppose there is no role for their employers, ultimately the parents, to sit them on the naughty step and explain to them what their role is.
H W
4 months ago
Ontario, Canada’s most populated province, mandated cursive writing starting Sept 2023 after a Human Right Commission report found that teaching methods that were not based on empirical evidence were disproportionately harming marginalized kids. The teachers’ union opposes this. https://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/FINAL%20R2R%20REPORT%20DESIGNED%20April%2012.pdf
Nancy Kmaxim
4 months ago
The teacher’s unions in the United States have been crystal clear about whom they advocate for, and it doesn’t take much effort to notice, it’s not children. School choice is a no brainer. Few of us can afford private school tuition when we’re already paying public school teachers to “protect their health” in Cancun while nonprofessional staff provided child care for the community.
james elliott
4 months ago
Why are teachers striking over slavery?
Because they don’t want to work – and because of the cancer of Marxism in most Western institutions.
If your child is being taught by one of these morons, withdraw your child – or demand that a proper teacher be brought in to replace the idiot you are currently gambling your child’s education on.
An honest article, whose author may be catalogued as one of innumerable well-intentioned constituents co-opted by grifting Marxists.
You need to be able to just say no.
Community schools would be unnecessary if parents were competent, and perhaps even living with and married to their children’s fathers.
Dads count. Supporting a family financially provides them with far better life outcomes than the table scraps of the welfare state. Sorry, ladies. You still need us, well after the pregnancy test comes back positive.
Schools also exist for the sole purpose of teaching literacy, numeracy, and a set of objectively true facts.
They were never meant to be soup kitchens, nor indoctrination centers. That they often are is why so few of the truly poor are able to go on to selective universities.
Teachers are supposed to teach, and in secondary schools they should primarily be teaching literacy and numeracy. They do our children – and our society – no favors by being far left activists.
Sack the lot. They will not be missed and think about the damage they are doing to your children
The point about Activists abusing / subverting the democratic process is a very good one
Can’t wait for AI to replace the social warrior educator.
This article highlights a good reason to home school your children. The teachers unions are no longer interested in teaching children how to read, write, and analyze problems.
The author sounds like a fairly sensible moderate, and I sympathize with their plight. Being a resident of rural America, I have the opposite problem, but I have no children to be concerned about, and it is infinitely cheaper and easier to live in Trump country with rednecks, whatever their flaws, than I suspect it would be to live in Oakland or anywhere else in the woe begotten state of California. To be charitable, California has several serious problems that won’t be easily remedied. A notable one is that the state has become a one party state, like China or Russia. In a one-party state, conformity is enforced and dissent is punished. It begins with extremists of the other side, but continues on to moderates and centrists, until everyone is marching to the same tune, whatever the party decides. If the problem is an entrenched group of hardcore activist types dictating and enforcing policy, may I suggest that the most expedient solution is to leave California if at all possible. Of course I don’t mean they need to go to Texas or Florida and rub elbows with *gasp* Trump supporters. I’m thinking Minnesota, Colorado, Maine, or maybe not so distant Nevada. There are still places where the left hasn’t become completely unhinged. You’d have plenty of company, as leaving California seems to be all the rage these days.
Not sure I can go along with the differentiation between the teachers and their leaders. The teachers still have to strike. If they do so on such a premise they forfeit the right to sympathy or support.
N fought S obvious over economics and finally slavery. About less than 2% owned slaves, Black, White and Native.
Makes inescapable the role teachers see for themselves – not as educators but activists for irrelevant causes. In California, I suppose there is no role for their employers, ultimately the parents, to sit them on the naughty step and explain to them what their role is.
Ontario, Canada’s most populated province, mandated cursive writing starting Sept 2023 after a Human Right Commission report found that teaching methods that were not based on empirical evidence were disproportionately harming marginalized kids. The teachers’ union opposes this. https://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/FINAL%20R2R%20REPORT%20DESIGNED%20April%2012.pdf
The teacher’s unions in the United States have been crystal clear about whom they advocate for, and it doesn’t take much effort to notice, it’s not children. School choice is a no brainer. Few of us can afford private school tuition when we’re already paying public school teachers to “protect their health” in Cancun while nonprofessional staff provided child care for the community.
Why are teachers striking over slavery?
Because they don’t want to work – and because of the cancer of Marxism in most Western institutions.
If your child is being taught by one of these morons, withdraw your child – or demand that a proper teacher be brought in to replace the idiot you are currently gambling your child’s education on.