With the advent of tremendous amounts of wealth in the hands of one or two, we have become immune to all movements over the probability that they most likely are astro-turfed by one or two people in order to orchestrate something only they can take proper advantage.
The best movements arise out of nothing…
When you as an individual decide, “you know, I think I’ll head down to the demonstration and check it out, sort of to see what’s going on”, then a movement is about to happen.
Demonstrations who get their fire from over-organization, as in “Make sure you show up for this demonstration to show support” tend to be shallow…
Examples of the two?
March on Selma for the first: protesting Keystone XL at Carper’s Wilmington office for the 2nd.
One very effective; the other not so much.
One shows popular support? the other, meh.
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The opt-out movement needs only 7000 opt-opters to meet its objective… However, if the movement is to make a dent similar as did the firing of shells into Fort Sumter 155 years ago, it needs to turn heads.
The test begins in March… There are roughly 4 weeks to make a dent….. Start talking it up.
Every parent who loves their child, needs to keep their child home on days their school is tested.
The school is required to tell parents when the tests are given.. Any hedging by school officials needs to be reported …
Your representatives… those people whose jobs are beholden to YOU are the most trustworthy in which to confide your complaints over any specific school official.
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Start calling on Monday.
kavips 
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January 26, 2015 at 12:52 pm
anonymous
Using kids as pawns in any battle, is wrong
Hey kavips, leave them kids alone.
“What have we here,” Common Core? “Rubbish lad.”
Why isn’t kavips telling ‘just the teachers’ to stay home on testing days?
No, he specifically says, keep the children home.
Why use the kids as pawns in battle?
The kids, like pawns… are of smaller size and thought to be of lesser value, often are used as pawns sacrificed in the game.
Pawns in the ‘union money’ game.
Kavips, says, “Every parent who loves their child, needs to keep their child home on days their school is tested.” End quote
If one sends their child to school on a test day, one doesn’t loves their child, kavips? What would kavips suggest, leave the kid home alone, to suit his agenda? Or should the parents of kids stay home as well. You know kavips, those $8 per hr parents, the public school has ‘educated.’
Is kavips ‘advising’ teachers to stay home, (along with the kids) on days their school is tested? Or is he just trying to use ‘the kids’ for his purpose?
Any altering combination of however ‘the kids’ are used, would blow the test results. Imagine, a chemical spill, a CO2 smoke stack, a contaminated drinking water sample, a medical specimen, a nuclear plant leak, etc., in which samples were eliminated and if an adequate amount of sampling material was no longer available, some hoped that would mean the product was not in need of testing, it was good, safe, of no public concern. Isn’t that what kavips hopes to do, in suggesting altered testing and/or non testing?
Is ‘keep your child home on test days’ the official union act?
Obviously not Everyone knows, union action could shut down the schools, the city, the state, in a day. So kavips, yours is just some angry, individual, disruptive, bricks in the wall effort from the status quo?
An unidentified stranger, telling parents to keep the kids home from school. In what world, does that sound right to you.
With kids being advised, that taking a test is deemed ‘wrong’ by kavips, in order to throw test scores, one wonders how many ‘pawn kids’ are also not being taught the subject test material? That would be a serious problem – but as a former public school student, one knows it happens far to often for some.
Perhaps the teachers should be required to be tested with the same material, at the same test time as the kids in this case. If the teacher is MIA no show, or performs miserably, fails to improve, one would better know wherein lies the problem. That’s what testing does.
I’d bet the following happens less in the elite classrooms.
A large, mean, puck faced math teacher, would greet the kids (all of them good students,) showing his fist of large rings that he threatened to imprint into their skull if he heard a word out of anyone. No he wasn’t kidding. Every kid feared being in his classroom.
Another of my Delaware public school teachers began EVERY class dutifully appearing before the room, then pretending she was going to close the door after the kids filed in…..but would let the door fall shut as she disappeared up the hall and into the smoke filled teachers’ lounge for the duration. The bell would ring at the end of the class and we’d let ourselves out of social studies.
I had another teacher who had no clue what was in an advanced math book. He would show up for every class and drunken babbled about anything under the sun, except the subject matter. Actually, tired of putting up with him, I finally told him (except I left out the word drunken) and he continued on as if I said nothing. Got the bad eye from some of the kids though.
Another teacher was the ‘if you can’t do, then teach’ poster woman. She would spend every two hour class crying about her work experiences in the ‘real world’ and end up every time, still sobbing uncontrollably when the bell rang and we uncomfortably edged toward the door and let ourselves out. We knew she was checked out. We felt sorry for her. Such a class, became ….normal.
These are a few real examples of my public school days, of teachers making it to the classroom for their pay checks and not much else, so I know it happens.
Yes I had some good teachers, but I’m taking about those who would use kids as pawns for a pay check.
Pawns Def: Persons used by others for their own purposes.
Just tell the kids when things are tough, when kids need to show that their teachers are/aren’t capable of helping them learn to think, solve problems, they should check out, stay home. Wow kavips.
Kavips, who’s responsible for the educational failures to date?
Not a test that hasn’t happened yet.
I would not advise parents to let their kids be used as pawns in your union battle, because using children as pawns in any battle is always wrong. It should be about retaining the best teachers, whomever they might be, because what has been missing for many in the public school system are better teachers, a better educational plan for young adults to build upon.
January 26, 2015 at 5:26 pm
kavips
^Dude, where have you been? You are stuck back in 2007. ITTS.