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Toon: American Education (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2014 OP
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Jan 2014 #1
Great cartoon Gothmog Jan 2014 #2
Who will teach rickyhall Jan 2014 #4
No one w. any options. Smarmie Doofus Jan 2014 #6
I Pads with a security guard in the room ? lunasun Jan 2014 #8
Schools have been bringing in foreign teachers n2doc Jan 2014 #10
Recommended X 1000! Enthusiast Jan 2014 #3
Sad but true! MarianJack Jan 2014 #5
No need to "fire them all." Smarmie Doofus Jan 2014 #7
I have decided to call it quits this year.... AnneD Feb 2014 #12
Same here. femmocrat Mar 2014 #14
Danzinger is a national treasure. DamnYankeeInHouston Jan 2014 #9
Any thing we gonna to do petson Feb 2014 #11
I say CallmeJoe Feb 2014 #13
China is betting the USA dahfonz Mar 2014 #15
 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
6. No one w. any options.
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 04:31 AM
Jan 2014

Bush and Obama have been able to preside over this ed "reform" wave of the past 14 yrs precisely because the economic conditions they've produced have created an unlimited labor supply.

Pretentious "reform" rhetoric aside, in its essence it's about cheap labor.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
7. No need to "fire them all."
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:33 PM
Jan 2014

Most will resign or retire in the face of the hostile work environments that have been created nationally by professional union busters with the collaboration of the major teachers unions and ( OF COURSE!) the tacit approval of Obama and Duncan.

AnneD

(15,774 posts)
12. I have decided to call it quits this year....
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 12:46 PM
Feb 2014

this is truly the worst year (worse than my first year as a school Nurse). They are screaming and hollering how desperate they are for qualified school Nurses, but they treat the ones they have like shit. I am in good health and could do Nursing for 5 or 10 more years but I am going where I can get decent compensation and respect for a change. There are few replacement in the pipeline for this.

petson

(25 posts)
11. Any thing we gonna to do
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 08:03 AM
Feb 2014

Any factor we have a tendency to gonna to try and do for the education, that is incredibly vital in our day to day life.

 

CallmeJoe

(10 posts)
13. I say
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 09:32 PM
Feb 2014

I say treat teachers like they do in Finland, where teachers are upper class professionals with a lots of education, like doctors and lawyers. Having a good teacher is just as important as having a good doctor or lawyer.

dahfonz

(3 posts)
15. China is betting the USA
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:49 PM
Mar 2014

How many times in a week, will I hear the joke on TV saying this is why China is betting the USA..

SMH

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