Thread: Two Weeks With NO Walk Out!

Guess my little rural area is just the stereotypical professional midwest ethics. Sure, there is the occasional bad seed story, but we are not exposed (pun always intended) to these things to the amount you see.

We are just boring, everyday folks who do what we can each day. :wink:

Two straight weeks in this region with NO teacher or administrator walked out!

A watched pot never boils- keep looking!

I can't light weight figure it out, you now, why!?!? Must be in the water...................

.What you are seeing in that neighboring town is nothing less than political correctness run amuck, with a little nepotism thrown in for good measure.

My former school system was rife with it.

the school board had an official policy that the ethnicity of school personnel should reflect the population of the school district. that's fine, in theory and would not be a bad idea if there were enough qualified and suitable candidates to fill those positions.

In far too many cases, school principals were appointed merely due to their being female or a minority. Little consideration was given to whether they were fit for the job. The same thing happened as far as school staffing went, particularly in my former school where the "principal," (herself a minority and a total dimwit) would hold positions open, filling them temporarily with substitutes, until she could find minorities to fill the positions permanently. Again, the idea was not the problem, but the execution was flawed. Students went without qualified teachers for weeks or months and sometimes, too often, the minority candidate that was finally found and hired was unfit....NOT because they were minority, but because they couldn't teach, didn't know their subject or both. I understand that last year she did this trick, holding open an exceptional teacher position all year, filling it with a non certified substitute and putting the names of two other qualified teachers on the proper forms as "teachers of record." This time she got busted, when parents of the children in that self-contained special needs class went to the state over it and were threatening to go to the feds. Interesting how this "principal," despite breaking the law and being far out of compliance with regulations, kept her job. Let's see, she also committed fraud. This will sound rude, but if she had been caucasian or male, they would have put her UNDER the jail and likely stripped her of her license.

Please don't read me wrong. I am all in favor of equal opportunity. I was raised and taught to see people as human beings first and to consider their character, NOT their color or gender. What sticks in my innards is that political correctness is just out of control and if any dare do anything about it or complain about it, they're branded as bigots.

What was it John Boy said about political correctness and the truth?

That would be something to the effect that truth is the first casualty of political correctness. Nepotism is an old problem that will never completely leave us. Political correctness, one of Marx's children, will probably be with us for some time to come, although I think at some point, inclusiveness and striving for equal outcomes will be recognized as worthless goals whose consequences are threatening our survival as a nation. Unfortunately, those who create and implement educational policy will pursue them unto utter ruin......

Inclusiveness...something else born of good intent, but carried to extremes, to the detriment of all concerned.

The same can be said of "equal outcome." Not going to happen. Not now. Not ever.

All ARE created equal before the law and I heartily support that, but the notion that one size fits all and everyone can achieve the same level of expertise is folly. that would be akin to me aspiring to become another Rembrandt. Nuts, I can't even draw a straight line without a ruler!

And our nation, our way of living is DEFINETLY imperiled by all this tom foolery. We aren't training up our future leaders, don't encourage creative thinking or initiative anymore; it's all about "the test" now and everyone has to know and do the same thing.

Sounds Orwellian to me and THAT scares me!

Good points all! I really can't add nothing except that I agree.