I Am A Public Employee

God Against Paying Teachers Well?

STRONG Response from a Teacher

Class Warfare

Latest assault by SB5 supporters: sue Ohio teachers’ unions

Latest assault by SB5 supporters: sue Ohio teachers’ unions: "In their latest attempt to disguise their failed efforts at convincing us that a majority of Ohioans support the union-busting legislation in Ohio, John Kasich’s agent group, Building a Better Ohio has teamed up with some unhappy Tea Party teachers and filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against the Ohio Education Association and some of its affiliates, including a local association to which they have absolutely no connection..."

Dear Cameraman Who Attacked Teachers In Front Of Matt Damon And His Mom

Owned!

Matt Damon: Stop The War On Teachers

Matt Damon: Stop The War On Teachers: "ThinkProgress filed this report from the Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C. Actor and activist Matt Damon spoke at the Save Our Schools rally today. Before he spoke, Damon granted ThinkProgress an exclusive interview. We asked him about how teachers unions are being demonized in much of the media and teachers are being blamed [...]"

Walker Speech Drowned out by Jeers

Walker Speech Drowned out by Jeers - Rebuild the Dream

Walker Shouted Down at Gateway Technical College 7/12/11 from Kevin Mulvenna on Vimeo.

Remember When

Some Schools Not Allowed to Flunk Out

Some Schools Not Allowed to Flunk Out - Ohio

Close them down if they're not performing! They shouldn't get a special exemption just because they're a private school! I'm tired of companies in the private sector getting free passes while companies in the private sector are getting torn apart!

Five Myths About America’s Schools

Five Myths About America’s Schools - Washington Post

A very interesting article that makes a lot of good points.

Bacerra: Man Drowns, No Thanks to GOP Budget Cuts

Kasich, Republicans Don’t Actually Support Teacher Merit Pay

Kasich, Republicans Don’t Actually Support Teacher Merit Pay - Plunderbund

It's weird that they put legislation through that they don't support. But then again this is Kasich and the GOP that we're talking about. Little of what they does makes any sense, if ever.

Typpgraphy

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Merit Pay Mess

Merit Pay Mess - Join the Future

I got told my one of my relatives that's a school that runs off of merit pay doesn't work. They said that there's way too many factors to count in to be able to have a good merit based system. Like the economic level of the school, class size, how they judge you (by student scores, job performance or one shot evaluation), who's filling it out and how they feel about you. And for police and firefighters, how do you do merit pay for them? They save lives and protect us every day.

I know that you get a bad worker in every bunch (I've had my share of bad professors), but I think that there's too many things to count in to be able to make something like this fair. They need a better system of weeding the bad people out.

What Teachers Make

For all of those teachers out there under fire from union busting. This one's for you.