Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.

Friday, January 09, 2009

Is This President Bush's Fault, Too?

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Europe's economy contracts at rates not seen since 1930s
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Interviewing

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I haven't posted much about my own situation, but for about a year now I haven't been happy where I teach. In the last couple month...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Is This Really Necessary?

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It's bad enough that our state Superduperintendent of Public Instruction has said that blacks and Hispanics don't do well in school ...
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Mathematician

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I'm not too happy in my current work environment. Perhaps I should consider trying my hand at something else. Mathematician looks good...
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Still Liking Michelle Rhee

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What's not to like ? At the heart of Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's vision for transforming D.C. schools is a dramatic overhaul of it...
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Big Brother? Oh, Brother.

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Those of you who gladly give up your liberty to the government should pay attention to what's happening to those who have already done s...
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Illegal Fees--Not Just For California Anymore

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Click on my illegal fees label to see the posts I've written about the illegal fees we charge in our schools. I don't make such cla...

Candid Camera

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Word out on TeacherNet is that students at our school are endeavoring to surreptitiously record teachers saying or doing something that, whe...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Union Rules

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This came to me in an email today, and I can't help but post it. A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Ve...
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Eagle Scouts

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Last night I attended the Eagle Court for a former student of mine. He's the 5th student who's invited me to the ceremony at which ...
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Carnival of Education

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This week's is posted over at RightWingNation (a daily read for me) and includes my post about California's upcoming budget cuts.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Government Can Legally Hack Into Home Computers Without A Warrant!

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Yes, it's true. But this new power isn't one of George Bush's attacks on the Constitution, on American civil liberties, on human...
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Where's The Sea Ice Going?

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Nowhere . Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew ...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

How Many Recounts Does It Take?

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How many recounts were we going to suffer through in Florida in 2000 before the US and Florida Supreme Courts put an end to them, halting De...
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Updated Post

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If you liked the post about Oregon's consideration of "mileage taxes" instead of "gas taxes", in part because peopl...

Why Was This Math Teacher Really Fired?

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It's stories like this that make me wonder about the wisdom of having local school boards. Of course, the same thing could happen on a...
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Is Anything That Happens In California The Fault of the Legislature?

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Or is everything the fault of President Bush ? And was that about the worse article ever , devoid of even a shred of cause/effect, logic, or...
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More On The So-called "Stimulus Package"

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I wonder if anyone in positions of authority will listen to her. I wonder if she'll listen to herself : Second, as multiple studies hav...

Anthropogenic Climate Change A "Myth"?

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Don't you love how arrogant the Europeans are, how hypocritical the press ? The European Union's new figurehead believes that climat...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Employer-Provided Health Insurance

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I ask this simple question: why, in a logical world, would employers be responsible for employee health insurance? Employers are not respo...
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