Not to mention raising hell with idiocy because one is paying their own $$$$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!

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'Better yet privatize education." Amen

I don't like to side with public schoolteachers, but in
the case, I think I have to (that's "teacher", singular)..

I noticed a few got up and left mumbling something like "This is wrong"..But yes, as long as people are willing to allow it, and not stand up in some way, it will continue, and has continued, for the last 200 years or so.

The two most disturbing things I saw in the situation was that 1) a police officer was willing to go along with the order and arrest the woman and 2) the public went along with it, the entire attending populace should have been in the hall preventing the officer from 'doing his job'. The people keep waiting for permission to be free from the slave holders. It will not happen.

agree

I can appreciate informed cynicism,given the high quality standards of both reporting and political posturing today, we will have to see what pans out, maybe this will all vaporize and drift away....

They were neither little, nor red.They had to use up the allocated budget, hence a marble edifice.

I am a complete stranger to the goings on of this situation.Someone for some reason wants the school board to look stupid. I don't know what the pay-off is. An upcoming election, perhaps? In any case, the situation is too contrived, the cop too stupid, the protester too over the top , we shall see in a few weeks as to how it all plays out.and I'll get to determine how acute my sensing of motivation is..Que sera,sera?

Yep, they get the money, you get the work, what a deal. But the only way to get a decent education, meaning "I WANT A REFUND"!

Exactly, mismanagement and corruption at it's finest. Useless dolts put in charge because "they have Phds" and so must get 150K a year to be morons. You can get politicians to be morons a lot cheaper. Then they do the Bond thing. I have voted NO on every bond issue for 20 years, as they have never proved they spend what they have usefully. Just like the rest of government.

My sentiments for the last 30 years, I tried to help out our local school and gave up in disgust between criminal background checks to make sure you were safe to be around the little "criminals" and the fact the superintendent was a retired state senator getting 130K a years to do nothing "But he had a Phd"....BS.

Please explain the logic, this only made the school board look stupid and authoritarian, no positive value, and they are a creature that NEEDS positive value. They could have allowed the teacher her say, say "Thank you" and "Next" and have ridden it out. How would a show benefit anyone? Not that I disagree, as as soon as you mix a political creature into anything, all bets for logic are off, but I do not see a payoff here....

Yep, cut my taxes what school costs and then you have removed the burden from all the people who have no kids. While it may seem "mean" banks could do loans to parents for kids schooling if they wanted, and allow parents still early on in their careers, bet on future earnings to front load the costs.

There you go, thats why Charter Schools came into being, but they still try to keep their hooks in them with blackmail...

I'm an engineer with decades of experience using math to make the world a better place for my fellow humans. My attitude on this is, "Yeah? Wanna take me on over this? Bring it..." Most teachers are very cooperative on this. I even know one who's pro-Common Core and she'd probably let me do it, too. When somebody tells a kid that 7 + 6 = 10 AND 13 they better know they're in my sights...

That was a show. Produced and directed. Even the dumbest cop would know that there was no need for handcuffs and the teacher's reaction to them way over the top.Lots of repeat showings on all of the various media. I must admit they did a masterful job.

Glad to see you putting together capitalist plans! And I'm glad you have teachers who are willing to go along with you. For many teachers, its not so much about the kids as it is the ideology.

Most of these meetings are a sham. If you bring up a good point, they start a timer, and your time is up. They have a process... Yeah, it's called Rubber Stamping... We are SUPPOSED to disrupt that process...

Down in MIAMI we are paying the superintendent like a Basketball star!

In California, the School BOARD building is called the Taj Majal (sp) because it is ALL MARBLE.

In our schools, we have so many office staff and assistant principals. I think a full 30% of the workforce don't teach!

Bring back the little red school houses!

Maybe the audience could have been more supportive of her.
Is the school board an elected body?
If so, start a recall effort or run better candidates in future.
Better yet privatize education.

the govt school teacher calling the kettle (superindent) black...govt schooling is a waste of taxpayer dollars (all taxation is theft)...privatize all schools...let teachers and their supervisors compete in the free market of education for a paycheck...get govt out of education

The schools are a governmental institution and have been for so long that not a few of the districts are rife with corruption and incompetence.
My own district begged for a bond issue to build five new schools because they had too many students crammed into classrooms. They closed five other schools after they had the first four built because they didn't have enough teachers to staff all the schools and couldn't afford the upkeep on the "old" buildings.
They still retain ownership of the old buildings and use them for administrative purposes.

The government school system is corrupt. If I had young children in today's environment I would home school them.

When I started my career with the Alabama Department of Corrections during the early 80s, the DOC had it in their heads that officers were on straight salary and they could work us any hours overtime without OT pay as much as they wanted.
"Where is your dedication?" was said to those who complained.
A lot of the officers were Birmingham area ex-steel workers (jobs went overseas) and got the AFL-CIO involved.
Then we got OT of comp time anytime we worked late.
Receiving am AFL-CIO magazine with Slick Willie's smiling face on it was quite the groaner. It was promptly trashed.