Comments on: What in the world does this have to do with teachers?

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:25:28 +0000

My Dad taught me the thought about ebonics (although back in the mid-70s, it didn’t have that “official” name). He grew up in a ghetto in Berlin and understood better than all those middle and working class whites at the union meeting how important quality speech is to entering the mainstream. The only person who backed him up was a little old black lady teacher, who shouted down all the people trying to call my dad a racist.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:33:39 +0000

which, unsurprisingly the unions supported despite, or maybe because of, the fact that ebonics education ensures that blacks never leave the ghetto).

I am curious, Book. When did you arrive at this thought, or even suspicion of it?

I didn’t realize such things until well after 9/11.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:54:01 +0000

Good question – and are they going to be covered under the plan they have presently, or will they be covered under the Government plan? Do they know? Do they have guarantees? I suppose that if their plans are better, there won’t be a problem…

By: 11B40

11B40 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:37:47 +0000

Greetings:

In a similar vein but different:

I live in the San Francisco Bay area. During the last couple of weeks, AFSCME, a multilevel government employee union, has been airing TV spots encouraging voters to encourage our US Senator Feinstein to support President Obama’s healthcare initiative. What strikes me as unusual is that, as government employees, these guys must already have pretty decent medical insurance and yet their union finds it a good use of their dues money to advertise for the socialization of the healthcare industry.

So, I wonder if this is some kind of a kickback to the Obama-ists or an expectation of the expansion of the union’s workforce when Obama succeeds or…Is there a Door Number 3?

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:28:14 +0000

suek:
My parents were long time friends with a couple whom they met in grad school. The couple had taught in public high schools in the Midwest in the 1930s and 1940s. They had to keep their marriage secret because the wife would have been fired from her teaching job for being married. IIRC, policies changed while they were teaching school, and they were able to go public with their marriage while still remaining school teachers- until they went to grad school and later became professors.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:21:35 +0000

the only reason she was being let go was due to the fact that she was soon to be married, and therefore no longer suitable to be teaching young ladies.”

Actually, come to think of it, in today’s sexed-up schools they would probably fire a teacher about to get married because she might give girls the wrong idea about the wonderfulness of promiscuous sex and the need for wymyn to be free of patriarchal constraints like wedlock.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:29:25 +0000

Heh. I still have my mother’s letter of termination from the job she held as a teacher in an all girls school. It included a very nice recommendation, and noted that the only reason she was being let go was due to the fact that she was soon to be married, and therefore no longer suitable to be teaching young ladies.

Honest.