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In reply to the discussion: NY Dem majority passes Cuomo's ed bill "with heavy hearts". One even holds his nose while voting. [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)5. Well said, Peter Greene. "people who club baby seals feel a little bit bad about it"
NY: Teachers Can Go To Hell, With a Heavy Heart
NY Democrats tried to make it look like less of a total victory-in-a-walk for public education opponent Andrew Cuomo by making sad pouty faces and issuing various meaningless mouth noises while going ahead and voting for the damn thing. "Ohh, woes and sadderations," they cried as they took turns walking to the podium to give Cuomo exactly the tools he wanted for helping to put an end to teaching as a profession in New York state.
I am not sure what Democrats hoped to accomplish by taking to the podium and twitter to say how deeply, tragically burdened they were. I mean, I guess you'd like to know that people who club baby seals feel a little bit bad about it, but it really doesn't make a lot of difference to the baby seal, who is in fact still dead.
Maybe the lesson here is that the craziest person in the room controls the conversation. The person who's willing to ram the car right into the sheer rock face gets to navigate the trip, and Cuomo has displayed repeatedly that he really doesn't care what has to be smashed up. If the world isn't going to go on his way, it doesn't need to go one for anybody.
But if teachers needed reason #2,416 to understand that Democrats simply aren't friends to public education, there it was, biting its quivering lip and sniffling, "I feel really bad about this" as it tied up education and fired it out of a canon so that it could land directly under a bus that had been dropped off the Empire State Building.
Hell, even Campbell Brown must be a little gobsmacked, as Cuomo's budgetary bludgeoning of tenure and job security rules has made her lawsuit unnecessary. The Big Standardized Tests results will continue their reign of teacher evaluation, dropping random and baseless scores onto the heads of New York educators like the feces of so many flying pigs. And all new teachers need to do to get their (soon-to-be-meaningless) tenure is get the random VAM dice to throw up snake-eyes four times in a row. Meanwhile, school districts can go out back to the magic money trees to find the financing for hiring the "outside evaluators" who will provide the cherry on top of the VAM sauce.
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NY Dem majority passes Cuomo's ed bill "with heavy hearts". One even holds his nose while voting. [View all]
madfloridian
Apr 2015
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Well said, Peter Greene. "people who club baby seals feel a little bit bad about it"
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#5
They said it was better than Cuomo's original, and they didn't want budget to be late.
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#12
"permanent licenses are no longer permanent, a backdoor way to dump senior teachers"
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#19
It reminds me of watching the Iraq War Vote. Something died inside of a lot of Democrats
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#26
The Democrats have become so spineless it is embarrassing. I remember fighting right wingers
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#22
"Cuomo would have relented if they had taken a united position against this bill."
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#24
The Democratic politicians hold their nose while voting for legislation and the Democratic voters
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2015
#32