School Districts Fail Children Not Teachers

When will the public start asking questions? Teachers have no control over the curriculum, the schedule of the curriculum or the evaluation of students.  School district administrations call the shots.
School districts are failing because no one is looking in the right direction.
When Americans scrutinize, evaluate and hold school district administrators accountable for the poor management of the thousands of competent, qualified teachers, education will change.
This nation is shooting at the wrong targets.
In the business world management heads would roll if the product was inferior.
Only in education do school administrations continue to get paid the 100,00 plus salaries with little accountability.
The inferior product is not a result of the teachers. It is a result of  poor management, high turnover, and cronyism.
What is with this country?
Start asking the right questions.
Who sets the curriculum for the district?
Who tells teachers what to teach and how?
How much actual time is set for instruction as opposed to testing and other required district and school functions? Who sets policy for homework ?
How are instructional materials acquired in a school district?
What redress do teachers have when an unethical administrator runs the school?
How does the district handle poor administration of schools?
Who oversees poor administration on a district level?
Where does the money go beyond teachers salaries?
Districts will give all kinds of pat answers to those questions. The real truth is teachers are not a part of the decision making process for what and how your children learn. It is school administrators who call the shots.
Hold them accountable.

Americans are shooting the wrong horse.

The Republicans are being taken seriously and the Democrats aren't talking.
We have a small problem here, don't you think??

A List of Gripes

1. Get those botoxed, ignorant fake tanned, dyed haired white men off the ballot. Show me a man with some real character who doesn't give two hoots about screen time and talking points.

2. I am sick to death of Americans bashing teachers. Go ahead, break the unions, hire the lower paid teachers. You think education is bad now??
When we go after the administrations of school districts for screwing up curriculums, having way too much power , yapping at the heels of teachers to change this, and the next year, do it the old way.., we will make some progress. Teachers used to teach. Now they jump like monkeys to the school district administrative organ grinders. Americans are just plain stupid. Let teachers teach.

3. Outsourcing. The real definition of outsourcing? Take the steady job away from Americans and give it to someone so hurting they will forgo any semblance of a decent paying job with health care benefits.
Make Americans starve! The motto of business is "who gives a rats patootie" about the humans working for us! Make em bleed! That is the American way!

4. If I hear one more profit making huge corporation whine about the cost of doing business, I will scream!
Where are you Americans?? Who put your heads in the toilets??
You don't mind bleeding while those fake tanned politicians whine for more tax breaks?
When are you going to get some ca hones??

5. One more American "love it or leave it" and I will campaign to send all those stupid ignoramuses to a third world country. We didn't get great by keeping our mouths shut.
Remember folks? FYI-We are a free country?? Or are we anymore?

6. Our great country is a shadow of its former self. What a shame we had to use our repreoductive systems to create a generation of idiots. I have become a strong advocate of birth control.

Of all the movie scenario endings to our civilization it never occurred to me our downfall would be stupidity and ignornance.

Voters-No vote unless campaign is about issues

Are you as tired as I am of smear campaigns?
All trash talk and no substance?


Let;s hold those candidates accountable.


No votes for trash talkers.
Vote on the issues-what the candidate WILL do -
not what he claims his opponent will or will not do.

My Country? Where are you??

In 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower ,became the 34th President. A Republican, along with running mate, Vice President Richard Nixon,  came to office after World War Two, the Korean War, and in a relatively peaceful time.
McCarthy was outed as TV came to play a major role in the Us, He sent troops to uphold the Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954 and desegregation took place in the public schools.
I was born in 1953, desegregated schools were only four years old when I started kindergarten.


My country has reflected citizen's values over the years with significant actions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964- who would have thought a white southern President by the name of Lyndon Johnson had the cojones to ensure the laws would be respected?
In 1962 President Kennedy granted federal workers the right to bargain.
In 1963 Equal Pay Act banned wage discrimination based on gender.
 1964 Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination


These are just a few of the great decisions, we as a country made during my lifetime. I grew up in a country focused on the quality of life for its citizens.


Over the years The United States was seen as a beacon  of hope-although we fought the ugliness of our character-slavery, child labor, sexism, racism, elitism-
we  always moved forward to eradicate the injustices human nature constantly oozed-In fact, those injustices were recognized in many ways as our baser side of nature. We had the courage to fight about them in the political arenas. Discourse was mainstay of our political system. The American citizens openly disagreed and debated. It is a part of our United States democracy-until now.


I can hardly write about this country of mine anymore.
I do not recognize it. 
The selfishness, the cruelty, the elitism, the punitive nature of our laws and regulations.
I am afraid .
The hatefulness and polarization of our very own nation leads us to a brink of unknown destination.
Banana Republic is the phrase oft repeated.
Many levels of government are yelling poverty, demanding belt tightening, turning government dollars away from those unable to care for themselves-the disabled, the elderly, children who have been placed in a nightmare system of pared down services.
Governments have become punitive and judgmental. Deciding who "deserves" health care, immunizations, what rights a "less entitled" person has for health care.


Religion in the United States has become a fanatical exercise in judgmental terrorism. Nothing related to the ten commandments.
I am not sure where the religious fervor in the US finds its biblical translations which form the basis of hate filled, punitive rhetoric which allows people to make murder threats in the name of christian justice.


I am in the minority and I am very aware of this.
It is frightening. !
Ironically it appears to be the last desperate vestiges of the white minority to control a country fast becoming a melting pot reality.
Unfortunately those who have been discriminated against and now devalued take on the mantle of the powers-buying into the mantra of elitism, as if they identify with it -that reality will become theirs.
It is a scary time in our country's development. 


Do we have no leaders with a sense of unity for our United States? Do we have no leader not bought and paid for by a mega corporation, one who speaks for the heart of our nations peoples?


Or, is this really the voice of our people coming out of Washington DC?
Are the elitist politicians owned and manipulated by a few powerful elite also speaking for the mindset of the American public?


When we, American citizens no longer believe our vote has an impact, when we turn over and look the other way, filled with a sense of futility, we have lost our country.

Dear President Obama, I'd love to give but....

Dear President Obama,
During your election year I was thrilled to meet you when you came to Las Vegas. I campaigned for you and even donated money.
I am sorry I can't do that this time. I believed you when you said "Change"
I realize you have repeatedly said we must be pragmatic and compromise when it comes to politics.
I am a teacher looking at a state government who is intent on busting our union. I am asked to pay more for insurance and retirement although I accepted meager raises during the boom times. My pay is to be cut but I do not know how much yet.
I left a profession as a social worker with a Masters degree to borrow 40,000 to get a Masters degree in Education, at a time when the country was screaming for teachers.
After ten years of teaching elementary school, spending much of my own money for supplies, spending enormous amounts of personal time in my profession, volunteered countless hours for extracurricular activities, and always worked two jobs while teaching to support my family  my profession, and myself, personally are  now reviled by the entire country. How did this happen?
Tonight I sit here trying to figure out how I am going to pay my bills with the additional costs and a pay cut. Since I have been teaching ten years and am in my fifties, I am at risk for  layoff, but one would never, never say it was because of my age or the amount I make compared to a first year teacher. would they?
Where have you been,, President Obama as the country ramped up the hate rhetoric about teachers?

I am lost. Who do I vote for in the next Presidential election? A President who ignores the tremendous unemployment rate of our country especially related to those over the age of fifty? The loss of full time employment for thousands in our county as corporations break our unions and decimate our employment laws? The loss of hope my eighteen year old daughter feels in the wake of high unemployment and low wages? Who do I vote for now? The suicide team intent on now taking away my social security and medicare when I am only seven years from eligibility? Or do I vote for you, a man I believed when he said, "Change Everyone Can Believe In? While I never supported Bush, his lies and manipulation were blatant and outrageous. We knew he was stealing from the middle class.
I don't know how you can ignore what is happening in states where government is king, people have no say, and big money doesn't even have to hide its role in dismantling one of the greatest nations in the world-all for greed. So who do I vote for?

Honestly, President Obama,
I have no one to vote for in the next election.

Three Wars-No armies

The United States is fighting three wars with three countries having NO ORGANIZED ARMIES and we can't wrap it up???
We have no reason fighting any of these wars. None.
Why are we paying all this money to fight meaningless wars?
Bring our troops home and have a little respect for other country's business.