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Education

Smarmie Doofus

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3. It'll be interesting to see if the "Empire Strikes Back." As you noted in the Darien case ....

Reply to Jefferson23 (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:09 PM

Nov 2013

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... retaliation is the currency of the realm in these gigantic, brain-dead education bureaucracies; a way of life. Teachers are all too aware of this, but there's no reason why these parents... and even their kids.... won't be singled out for "special treatment".

They've done the unforgivable: they not only bucked the system, they DREW PUBLIC ATTENTION to it.

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I'm glad people are standing up to these 'educators'. ejpoeta Nov 2013 #1

Well said, right here, from the comments: Jefferson23 Nov 2013 #2

It'll be interesting to see if the "Empire Strikes Back." As you noted in the Darien case .... Smarmie Doofus Nov 2013 #3

I think so, how else are we to see any decline on the war waged on teachers and as a result Jefferson23 Nov 2013 #4