It's an idiotic solution. One school ends up overcrowded, another ends up underfunded. The reason the current system was put into place is to attempt to educate all equally. It doesn't happen, generally, but the solution is better standards and more investment, not allowing people to take their ball and go home.
Corporations realize how dangerous unions are and have put a lot of money into subtly brainwashing the public through a variety of means. Same scapegoat shit that worked in Germany in the 1940's can still work on anyone in rough times. "You want someone to blame? Don't blame us, blame thing X!"
It's the same reason American's love SUV's: car companies put a fuck ton of money into propaganda and it worked. Americans are such "rugged individualist" types that if you tell them they've been brainwashed, they will argue with till the sun comes up that it was their own idea. Not so.
If people would unionize and say to each other "we're not going to take this shit anymore," people at corporations that are making a killing, not paying taxes, and not paying benefits would be history. Instead, you have these same workers fighting against their own interests, maybe clinging to the dream that one day they'll be at the helm of a corporation and wouldn't want to have to give anything back in that position.
I'm American, but I've been disgusted by this shit since I was old enough to understand it.
Another thing: hatred for unions = hatred of the working people. Incomprehensible.
Public employee unions work not only against a corporation bent on exploiting them (sometimes for political or personal gain, sometimes because of appropriations cuts, sometimes due to incompetence), but also a general public who thinks that services should exist but that employees should not be paid fairly or have rights because the public would rather spend their money on TV's and shit than taxes. Not only do you have a boss, but you have the general public yelling "I pay your salary" whenever they feel the squeeze, rather than fighting back against their employer for squeezing them in the first place as we do.
Unions are only a mixed bag because people are a mixed bag and unions are comprised of people. It's like anything else, but for some reason the standard for a union has to be much higher (of course, there's a lot of money behind that POV).
Unions are the REASON there was a middle class. As you put it, "home and land ownership, self sufficiency, ability to financially sustain oneself from adulthood to death were far more common" -- and were also the product of unions demanding fair treatment. Jesus, read some history -- it's all there in black and white.
Plenty of layoffs to save money have nothing to do with the amount of work needed -- they just get those that are still there to do the work (often working longer hours) and intimidate them into not bitching about it. Many of them also lay people off when they're not losing money.
Are you high? What evidence is there that in the decade or more that government has been answerable to a union for real? If the only power they have is voting, that's nothing more than exercising their rights as a citizen (PS: unions don't vote as a bloc -- try to get your members to vote their own interests and you'll see that).
Walker's job would have been easier, but nowhere near as lucrative. That whole endeavor was spawned by the billionaire Koch brothers who stand a lot to gain when there is no counter to corporate power.
Paying more for health insurance on a teaching salary is bad for teachers, bad for teachers unions, and bad for the people who receive payments for goods and services from those receiving a teaching salary. It's bad for the economy in general, as are all things that lower the purchasing power of the middle class.
Is that what's really happening, or is there a LOT of money being poured into making it look like that is what is happening? I can tell you that there IS a lot of money being put into quietly swaying public opinion against unions in general.
Not all unions are like this, and I even question whether you'd know enough about your own to really say anything. You do other unions a disservice by spreading this mantra, however.
Hand-crafted education is controlled by people who know what they're doing and received an education for how to do it, as well as who have years of experience doing it. It's amazing to me that the average idiot thinks they know how EVERYTHING could be done better, just off the top of their head. Why do we need experts in anything if the average person has it all figured out.
I went to a school that was similar to that (albeit not 900 in a lecture hall) and most professors hung around to answer questions either at the end or during class. I am a student and I am glad that I was there sitting in class. How many pay attention when they're at home and can "multitask."
BTW, the TA's at my school answered questions as well.
I agree with you, but even making more people aware of this and perhaps take a little bit of interest in whom they're voting for... I dunno. It's better than doing nothing, I think.
It's with that attitude that lead people to ignore safety rules on the aircraft (wear your seatbelt while seated, put your seatbacks forward, etc.). "It may just save someone's life, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be told to raise my seat for landing!"
What bugs me most is that I'll have to go back to not having LiveUpgrade. But oh well, they're moving everything virtual anyway for no reason, so I guess there's the ability to revert that way.
No, it didn't. The machine I did that to most recently was Windows XP. Maybe the 6 months is an exaggeration, but not the needing to reinstall. The last machine I had started to take 5 mins to log into in the morning. Bear in mind that I almost never install software unless I'm certain I'm going to want to keep it because I know how much cruft can be left around by uninstalling. Now, this machine I'm talking about was toward the lower end of the system requirements, but it ran fine when it was first installed. Only changes were newer versions of Acrobat and shit like that. It got slow, on its own, without anything running.
I use Ubuntu full time. The only thing I need Windows for at all is the stupid IE only websites that work makes us use for things. I also don't have to wipe my drive every 6 months because the registry has gone retarded again.
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Some are doing it any worse.
Poverty is the single largest variable. Teachers have no control over it at all.
They get performance reviews. You're ignorant.
It's an idiotic solution. One school ends up overcrowded, another ends up underfunded. The reason the current system was put into place is to attempt to educate all equally. It doesn't happen, generally, but the solution is better standards and more investment, not allowing people to take their ball and go home.
Corporations realize how dangerous unions are and have put a lot of money into subtly brainwashing the public through a variety of means. Same scapegoat shit that worked in Germany in the 1940's can still work on anyone in rough times. "You want someone to blame? Don't blame us, blame thing X!"
It's the same reason American's love SUV's: car companies put a fuck ton of money into propaganda and it worked. Americans are such "rugged individualist" types that if you tell them they've been brainwashed, they will argue with till the sun comes up that it was their own idea. Not so.
If people would unionize and say to each other "we're not going to take this shit anymore," people at corporations that are making a killing, not paying taxes, and not paying benefits would be history. Instead, you have these same workers fighting against their own interests, maybe clinging to the dream that one day they'll be at the helm of a corporation and wouldn't want to have to give anything back in that position.
I'm American, but I've been disgusted by this shit since I was old enough to understand it.
Another thing: hatred for unions = hatred of the working people. Incomprehensible.
Why would you want to pump your own gas? I can't believe this argument when I hear it.
Unions protect rights every day. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Examples? Facts?
Apparently you've never been a public employee?
Public employee unions work not only against a corporation bent on exploiting them (sometimes for political or personal gain, sometimes because of appropriations cuts, sometimes due to incompetence), but also a general public who thinks that services should exist but that employees should not be paid fairly or have rights because the public would rather spend their money on TV's and shit than taxes. Not only do you have a boss, but you have the general public yelling "I pay your salary" whenever they feel the squeeze, rather than fighting back against their employer for squeezing them in the first place as we do.
Unions are only a mixed bag because people are a mixed bag and unions are comprised of people. It's like anything else, but for some reason the standard for a union has to be much higher (of course, there's a lot of money behind that POV).
Unions are the REASON there was a middle class. As you put it, "home and land ownership, self sufficiency, ability to financially sustain oneself from adulthood to death were far more common" -- and were also the product of unions demanding fair treatment. Jesus, read some history -- it's all there in black and white.
Plenty of layoffs to save money have nothing to do with the amount of work needed -- they just get those that are still there to do the work (often working longer hours) and intimidate them into not bitching about it. Many of them also lay people off when they're not losing money.
Oh, you mean like someone who actually knows what they're talking about instead of making shitty snarky comments? Then yes.
When did calling someone an Academic become an insult? What a fucked up world we live in.
Are you high? What evidence is there that in the decade or more that government has been answerable to a union for real? If the only power they have is voting, that's nothing more than exercising their rights as a citizen (PS: unions don't vote as a bloc -- try to get your members to vote their own interests and you'll see that).
Walker's job would have been easier, but nowhere near as lucrative. That whole endeavor was spawned by the billionaire Koch brothers who stand a lot to gain when there is no counter to corporate power.
Paying more for health insurance on a teaching salary is bad for teachers, bad for teachers unions, and bad for the people who receive payments for goods and services from those receiving a teaching salary. It's bad for the economy in general, as are all things that lower the purchasing power of the middle class.
Is that what's really happening, or is there a LOT of money being poured into making it look like that is what is happening? I can tell you that there IS a lot of money being put into quietly swaying public opinion against unions in general.
Not all unions are like this, and I even question whether you'd know enough about your own to really say anything. You do other unions a disservice by spreading this mantra, however.
The lectures at a real college are better than those at Subway University -- you do know that, right?
Hand-crafted education is controlled by people who know what they're doing and received an education for how to do it, as well as who have years of experience doing it. It's amazing to me that the average idiot thinks they know how EVERYTHING could be done better, just off the top of their head. Why do we need experts in anything if the average person has it all figured out.
I went to a school that was similar to that (albeit not 900 in a lecture hall) and most professors hung around to answer questions either at the end or during class. I am a student and I am glad that I was there sitting in class. How many pay attention when they're at home and can "multitask."
BTW, the TA's at my school answered questions as well.
Ummm, the one called "Darmok?"
I agree with you, but even making more people aware of this and perhaps take a little bit of interest in whom they're voting for... I dunno. It's better than doing nothing, I think.
It's with that attitude that lead people to ignore safety rules on the aircraft (wear your seatbelt while seated, put your seatbacks forward, etc.). "It may just save someone's life, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be told to raise my seat for landing!"
What bugs me most is that I'll have to go back to not having LiveUpgrade. But oh well, they're moving everything virtual anyway for no reason, so I guess there's the ability to revert that way.
No, it didn't. The machine I did that to most recently was Windows XP. Maybe the 6 months is an exaggeration, but not the needing to reinstall. The last machine I had started to take 5 mins to log into in the morning. Bear in mind that I almost never install software unless I'm certain I'm going to want to keep it because I know how much cruft can be left around by uninstalling. Now, this machine I'm talking about was toward the lower end of the system requirements, but it ran fine when it was first installed. Only changes were newer versions of Acrobat and shit like that. It got slow, on its own, without anything running.
I use Ubuntu full time. The only thing I need Windows for at all is the stupid IE only websites that work makes us use for things. I also don't have to wipe my drive every 6 months because the registry has gone retarded again.