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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Jabberwocky "Critiques" of Teacher Unions
Here we go again. Throw my name into some unintelligible gibberish about teacher unions that makes no sense, and accuse me of having no principles. Since no one could find a single logical point in this screed no matter how long they tried, we are left with nothing but name-calling inserted between poor imitations of "Jabberwocky." Don't you ever get tired of excreting such discourse, if I can give it that elevated name, on this list, or of going out of your way to provoke flame wars? I don't even pretend to seeing any virtue in trying to engage you on any level: why don't you just stay in your corner of the universe? Parkany writes: << I intend to see the unions (as we say in another orthodoxy, IN BOTH KINDS) managers colluding w/labor attend to the fact that all these management & oversight (aka accountability) protocols are merely MANAGEMENT (read operations/support activities having absoluteluy NOTHING to do w/instruction. Witness the plight of poor Goe. S. in ChiTowm--excoriated for using proprietary items in after-test analysis--indicating once and for all the absurdity and moral corruption evident in crediting these tests under *Instructional* lines in district budgets. The very idea, Dr. Leo--where IS your shame? where are your prinicples, where ARE your principals, for that matter... Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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