As a business entity liberals and unions love Education, but as a practice they deplore actually educating* the American youth. Similar to most all policies of the liberal agenda, success shall not be tolerated and failure rewarded. Why should they concern themselves with actually doing their job when they get paid by attendance not by accomplishment.
As an example of how unions not only openly promote inefficiency but in some cases it is actually official policy. I recently crashed a horse. The horse is fine but I broke my ankle and for the first time found myself taking the bus to work. I noticed that the drivers aggressively pursue red lights and would stall at stops for what seemed like an egregious amount of time.
Like most New Yorkers I find myself in a daily rush to work in the morning, yet truth be told considering that I haven't been to work "on time" in about five years one would think that the entire concept of this post is contradictory and hypocritical, but since I don't really have a "starting time" I'm going to give myself a pass, and all y'all contraurorian detractors would be wise to do the same, lest I play the big shot card. Yeah that's right.
Anyhue as I was saying, buses in NYC run really slow, frustratingly so for the average commuter. Without the bum ankle I would outwalk the bus to work ninety nine percent of the time (I got 99 problems and the bus is one) . So one day I flashed my 560 card and gots to talking with a driver. They informed me that the people you see with notepads at bus stops are timing them and that if they are ahead of schedule they are reprimanded, fined or suspended. Yet if running late, nary a word is said, in fact it's a prequisite for advancement... sloth that is.
Now I can understand the theoretical argument that it is a safety issue or that you don't want to leave riders stranded (isn't the expression that buses are like women, there is always another one coming... or does that only apply to those who possess junk in the trunka trunk) but in all practicality since city traffic is usually jelly packed I dont see rogue keanu driven buses being a problem.
The bottom line is that the MTA Union penalizes its drivers for getting commuters to their place of work or destination early. Now that just doesn't seem right now does it?
That being said and getting back to those whom Whitney would describe as our future, this is a good start but I will be very interested in the UFT argument against rewarding raising test scores as I would be with the differentials in the results of those that participate and those that do not.
Because you know, that is a bad thing. Being held accountable, promoting achievement, actually doing your job and rewarding excellence. Our children's education is not negotiable.
Ah!!! Mediocrity the Liberal American way.
*educate, not to be confused with indoctrinate.
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u crashed a horse, or you fell off your barstool at the whitehorse?
Oh well either way i think you're on to something.
You know damn well that I dont sit at pubs and I certainly dont drink at the Whitehorse (too far to crawl home), but thanks for pointing out the obvious Captain Observo.
I had just assumed that the allegory would be understood without actually having to state that I was fall down drunk and twisted my ankle on the stairs of my local rathskeller.
Jackass!
i think all ny-based aurorans should get together for the next presidential debate and get wicked drunk. that's the only way i can handle watching the parade of half-wits.
i'm a fan of this proposal, but we really need to rethink how we do standardized testing--there are way too many tests.
in CA inner-city public school, we had "test season" in my last couple years of high school, where literally a quarter of the school year became devoted to taking and practicing for tests.
guess how seriously we took them.
standardized testing is important, but anyone who thinks kids are going to perform well en masse given our ADD culture is deluding himself.
i was just scanning the post (you have to in order to endure the read), so among other not so interesting points, what you're saying is that if there were no unions you would get to work on time.
okie, dokie.
sure you would.
Ignoring for a moment your oprahysterical victimization rationalization, the fact is that not all kids are capable of perfoming well, and that fine. That's life. Not every kid is going to be a brain surgeon. The world needs janitors too.
However it is the duty of every teacher to try, which once again, such is life, some are just not capable.
For starters, the entire tenure system is flawed as it gives teachers that excel the same incentive as those who do not.... put your time in and thats that, children be damned.
You once mentioned robots as an alternative. I concur.
To address your very much so interesting comment GD, I readily admit that I dont get to work on time, that is, once again if I had a starting time, or if I lived in "the mans" restrictive 9 to 5 box, which I dont.
Also I might add that the great nineties philosopher Stanley Burrell was wrong in his internationally recognized treatise, it is in fact, STOP!.... donkeytime.
Cant touch this.
you've know i've already touched it
(and you have never been the same since)
and spell check is still for dweebs
I thought only Mexicans can be janitors. Or at lest that what the new AD leads us to believe.
"i think all ny-based aurorans should get together for the next presidential debate and get wicked drunk."
i'm all for that. i'll sleep it off on my way home on the train ...
I'm in. When's the next debate and where are we going? I nominate Donkey's place since it's actually really nice and i think it can hold all of us.
the next one is june 28, and it's the demagogues...err, i mean democrats.
go gravel!
The fact is every kid is not going to be addicted to reading, which is something silly liberal intellectuals think is possible. Many people hate to read, that does not mean they are not smart.
But everyone should know how to read. Back when I was in school the slow kids would pass for brilliant students in this day and age. The kid that won the national spelling bee, for instance, is clearly retarded and they are trotting him out as a genius.
Wait- don't big shots take cabs?
Cheapass.
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