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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:07 AM Original message |
In bold move, Colorado alters teacher tenure rules |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Bold move (and good move) indeed. |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. You know nothing about tenure. |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:26 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Ooooooooh... yes I do. |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Then its pretty foolish to contend that tenure is the |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:52 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I'm all for due process. The issue is incompetent and ineffective teachers who SHOULD be fired. |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:05 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Always loverly to see CONSERVATIVE talking points on a liberal site |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:14 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. You disagree with my statement? |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
49. Their Talking points and way of life have been so successful |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:39 AM Response to Reply #21 |
29. You can't be all for due process, then dismiss it. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
55. Why is that? Because teachers must experience the worst aspects of private industry w/o the big $$? |
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adigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
59. So let's say I teach in a poor district, and you teach in a rich one |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. "bold" - is that what they're calling attacks on labor these days? |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. I am trying to think of another |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. How about cops? What does it take to be fired |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I've known cops who have been fired for |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. which public servant is it that's untouchable? hell of a lot more teachers getting fired |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. i'm trying to think of why some feel it necessary to pretend that tenure = "untouchable" |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I am trying to think of the last time I |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:21 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I'm trying to think of the last time I heard of a |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Well.. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. You forgot about publicly funded war criminals. |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:01 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. I think we probably agree, mostly, on this issue |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:25 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Allow me to translate your ravings into another job |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:34 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Excellent post ~ |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. These conversations always |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:13 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. My experience? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:36 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Perhaps that is true |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
24. awesome. +10000. Schools are in the middle of a culture war |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:13 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. Increasingly we are two Democratic Parties. |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #35 |
51. It shows how effective and scientific Republican information distortion is |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #24 |
48. Their Talking points and way of life have been so successful |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
36. Love it........................ |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
40. Good points. I'll have to remember them for future discussions IRL n/t |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. +1 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. maybe you don't get out much. |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. And a hearing with impossible criteria |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
46. no clue what that's all about. you said no firings but for sex, i gave you some. |
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Tutankhamun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
37. It happens all the time in California. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
41. In my building (70 teacher FTE) we've had six in a decade. |
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Salviati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
45. It's bescause some people hate unions, and will bash them any way they can. |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Nice generalization. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
39. You have no clue about education, just believe the garbage that is spewed by the anti-labor folks |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. Thanks for the information |
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adigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
60. Wall Street - can't fire those clowns!! And they make the big bucks!!! |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:31 AM Response to Original message |
14. Fornication. Wizardry. Having pictures of beer mugs in your facebook |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Wizardry |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:31 AM Response to Original message |
15. Deleted Dupe |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
30. Not "bold " in the least. Corporate money > union influence. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
33. children are not widgets..... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
34. I wouldn't want my kids around teachers with actual job security. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #34 |
56. They'll join DU. ;-) |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
42. If you teach so well that every student gets an A how do you improve? |
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alcuno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
44. And how does it get implemented fairly? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. Breaking union contracts....very "bold" indeed. It is called union busting. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
50. It used to be that the grades a student earned was a reflection of how |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Those grades and everyday work don't matter now. Arne says one test... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
54. And yet, ONLY Core Subject teachers will be subjected to this. Or is Home Ec tested? Phys Ed? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. They haven't planned it that far along yet. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:09 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Music? Art? Special Ed? Library Science?Teacher/Coordinators? |
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