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Teachers Union Opposes Virtual K-8 Charter School
theodp writes "'You can't sit a child in front of a computer and expect him to learn things he needs to succeed in society,' said unimpressed Chicago Teachers Union president Marilyn Stewart of the Chicago Virtual Charter School, which will open to Chicago elementary school students this fall if approved by the state board of education."
So make sure you keep him snuggled up in bed and don't let him outside in case those bad kids get to him!
I think that you're too worried about the mere possibility of them becoming a bad criminal or getting beat up by them, when if they don't interact with kids of their own age then they're *definitely* going to become pretty fucked up.
I think a much better solution to your problem is to instead try and clean up the schools and get rid of the little arseholes in there.
"On that note, some of the big things children learn K-8 are scocial skills and respect for other opinions."
Yes, this is what schools are for:
Social skills: pretend that it's ok that Timmy has 2 daddies.
Respect for others: If Ahmal's father chooses to blow up a building full of innocent children, we have to respect that as his own personal life choice.
I am not left-handed, either!
You are a coward and an idiot. I am not against the teachers picking up extra work during the summer as long as they do other non-educational things in the summer as well, such as STRIKES for one (and noone will care, because during the summer they are not actually teaching, but so what, they are still employees during the summer.) They should be doing their Professional Development days DURING THE SUMMER OR on the weekends (when the rest of the people do it.)
You can't handle the truth.
Because no white person every molested, murdered, or ate the remains of children.
But WHITE people who do that are Evil.
Non-white people who do that are misunderstood/fighting back the only way they can/making a personal life choice.
It's called a double standard because it's twice as good!
You really should be posting anonymously. Someday you will have to explain your posts to a potential employer; or maybe you won't even get the interview. - I don't want to work for people, who believe in sensorship of ideas on topics that are unrelated to the employment in question. I know that I live in socialist Canada, where anti-union sentiment is accepted less than child molestation (and the current federal conservative government is fixing that problem,) but I will speak my mind. Being allowed to speak your mind out is the basic principle of democracy, isn't it?
You can't handle the truth.
Apparently public school also failed to teach you that anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything.
Maybe he just has a naturally gregarious personality?
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