[Rhodes22-list] Public Education - Yeah, it's POLITICAL

Steven Alm stevenalm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 21:35:58 EDT 2008 

Yeah, but in this case, the man is pretty cool.  Not at all like the public
school Principal I had before.  8-)   These days I'm working fewer clubs and
more corporate one-nighters on weekends and I have too much down time on my
hands.  Gotta do somp'n.  Might as well take some steady cash on the
off-days.
Slim

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:50 AM, <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:

> Oh NO. Say it ain't so. Slim is going back to working for the man.
>
> Rummy
>
>
> In a message dated 9/27/2008 2:49:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> stevenalm at gmail.com writes:
>
> Ah yes,  lunch room duty.  Where I taught, that was affectionately known
>  as
> "The Bay of Pigs."
>
> Mr. Alm
>
> P.S.  Speaking of... I'm  going back to classroom teaching part-time
> starting
> next month at a music  college in Minneapolis called The Institute of
> Production and  Recording.   ipr.edu
> I'll be teaching music theory and class  piano technique.  My wife and my
> sister both teach there.  We're  planning a takeover.
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Brad Haslett  <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's a wonderful idea but four  decades too late.  I set the
> > benchmark for "lazy student" but  with this policy in place like this I
> > could have really gamed the  system.
> >
> >  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm
> >
> >  Brad
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Herb Parsons  <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> > wrote:
> > > See Slim, there ARE  things we can agree with.
> > >
> > > I'm sick and tired of  school officials who don't want to work. ANYONE
> > > can take a set of  rules, and blindly enforce them. It takes some
> skill,
> > > and a  caring attitude, to actually deal with children (and yes, that
> > >  includes 17 and 18 year olds).
> > >
> > > When my youngest was  8 (she's 24 now), she invited me to her school
> for
> > > lunch. I  played hooky from work and joined her. She and I had already
> > >  gotten our trays and were sitting in the cafeteria talking, when I
>  heard
> > > a teacher tell one of the other groups "No talking in  line!!!!" She
> then
> > > went back to discussing whatever it was she  was discussing with her
> > > friend another teacher.
> >  >
> > > I wanted to:
> > > 1) Tell her that if she could talk  to her friend, then surely the
> > > children she's being paid to work  with should be able to talk to
> theirs
> > > 2) Ask her if she stood  silently in line when she went out to eat on
> > > weekends at  Luby's
> > > 3) Bitchslap her
> > >
> > > Of course, my  daughter was watching (and learning), so I couldn't do
> any
> > > of  those; however, I DID go speak with the principal and told him that
> I
> >  > felt that overly restrictive rules like that were not in the best
> >  > interests of the child, that socializing with others is an  important
> > > part of development. He said they had restrictions to  "maintain
> order."
> > > We agreed to disagree, and Katie moved to a  private school.
> > >
> > > When rules are created for the  convenience of the paid educators,
> rather
> > > than for the betterment  of the child, or out of necessity, then it's
> > > administrators being  lazy.
> > >
> > > Sorry if I offend anyone on this, but there  are too many professional
> > > educators out there that fit that  category.
> > >
> > >
> > > Steven Alm wrote:
> >  >> Herb,
> > >>
> > >> We had a high school senior  up here just last week that was caught
> with
> > a
> > >>  box-cutter in his car in the school parking lot.  The lot was  being
> > checked
> > >> for parking stickers when it was  spotted in plain view in the cup
> > holder.
> > >> OK, now the  kid had an after-school job at Cub Foods doing, guess
> what,
> > >>  cutting boxes but the school has, as most, a zero tolerance for
> anything
> > >> pointy on school grounds and he was suspended and  threatened with
> > >> expulsion.  The school board said it  would be unfair to other
> students
> > to
> > >> NOT expell  him.  After a week of wrangling and heated discussion the
> >  board
> > >> decided to let him stay in school but with a heafty  probation.
> > >> Administration on steroids.
> >  >>
> > >> Slim
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Sep  24, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Herb Parsons <
> hparsons at parsonsys.com
> >  >wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Watch  this:
> > >>>
> > >>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJfqyzfCPg
> > >>>
> >  >>> They had these kids ARRESTED!!!! Watch the dour faced "educator"
>  hold
> > >>> her face squarely serious as she talks about  "disrupting an
> educational
> > >>> environment".
> >  >>>
> > >>> I want to one of the asshats look squarely  at the camera, and say
> that
> > >>> when they had these students  arrested, they were acting in the best
> > >>> interests of the  kids they teach.
> > >>>
> > >>> Yeah,  right.
> > >>>
> > >>> Ever wonder what some of us  are so dead set against these
> bureaucratic
> > >>>  morons?
> > >>>
> > >>> I once drove my motorcycle  through my college's library, LONG before
> > >>> D-Day rode his  up the stairs on Delta House. Guess I was just lucky
> > that
> >  >>> 1) It was a private school more interested in people than  the
> > importance
> > >>> of their jobs and 2) I was  smart/desperate enough that I didn't slow
> > >>> down until I  was 20 miles down I-35.
> > >>>
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