Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Well, I nodded off after I heard “I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.” I am now catching highlights.
Obama just doesn’t get it, but I will happily accept the raise he stated he will give me. It just goes to show he will not honor the Constitution. One of the themes I have outlined here at eCache is that the federal government has no role in education. That is precisely because our forefathers provided no role for them. As a matter of fact, they stated in the Tenth Amendment that anything they did not specifically delineate to the federal government, is a right of the states and the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So, why did The One stand up at Invesco Field and declare that as POTUS he will gaurantee higher salaries for teachers? POTUS is the head of the executive branch of the federal government. He doesn’t understand the job description of the office.
To be fair, many who have held the job and who aspire for it have not. Dear reader, demand more of your elected leaders. Do not accept the lesser of two evils. Demand that your president understands the Constitution. Shun platitudes in favor of sound policy.
Obama fails on that standard.
Should he be elected, hold him to his campaign promise. I expect more money in my paycheck. Are you prepared to pay for that? 
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
How come my daughter’s pre-school can have an automated call system that begins speaking when I pick up the telephone but the telemarketers have a delay? . . . Speaking of telemarketers, the silly group that has been bombarding us this week seemed to stop when I asked to speak with a supervisor after I heard the conversation about them getting high while they waited to click in. Stupid people . . . My classroom is in pretty good order. I still have paperwork to do, but the set-up is done. I finally am so organized it took very little effort to get ready this year . . . The pollen is coming as I have had headaches each day this week . . . Smoked a beer can chicken yesterday. Flavor was excellent, but I could not control the temps and it cooked much faster than I wanted it too . . . The speakers at the Democratic Convention have not been good the first two nights save Hillary, and she only took care of herself. The folks b4 her were awful . . . Speaking of work, I am going to have begin shaving on a regular basis now. Sigh . . . Optometrist appointment tomorrow. I suspect I will have a stronger bifocal script . . . Fatherhood is awesome! Particularly when the little girl is having a Daddy day . . . Michelle Malkin highlights some of the reasons why I am no longer a Republican . . . I just cleaned up my RSS feeds. There were a lot of dead feeds, blogs I rarely read, and interests that no longer errrr interest me . . . Billy Jeff had a good line tonight: “People have always been more impressed with the power of our example than the example of our power.” Good line, but still bad policy . . . In 1988 I voted for Dukakis. I lived in Boston. I guess I was young, idealistic, and feeling my oats. This ass just said the last seven and a half years are the worst he has had in his life. Sounds like he and Michelle Obama are cut from the same cloth . . .
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Very quietly New Jersey lawmakers and Gov. Corzine took another $3.9 billion from taxpayers last week. It is not unprecedented; $8.6 billion was taken and squandered on school construction. Of course that money didn’t get the job done because it was so poorly mismanaged. Now that Corzine has installed his crony at the headed of the former Schools Construction Corp. does anyone feel it will be any less so? Neither do I.
So these folks decided $3.9 billion wasn’t worth asking our opinion of. Today they began shelling out the money.
Just what does a $127,000,000 school look like? I cannot fathom why any one school needs to cost that much.
Dunston McNichol’s article states:
Officials said the original program has been completely re-tooled, and includes tight controls to limit overhead costs and ensure that officials have enough money in hand to complete the projects they launch.
What’s the over/under before we hear about corruption with this money?
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
of vacation! Woo hoo!
Of course, I am already working on lesson plans for next year, reading books to cover in class, re-designing a database, working on a report for the school, and re-tooling my data collection. And if I walked in 76 days from now without having gone in for a couple weeks, I would be totally unprepared to begin the school year. At least I get to sleep in late do most of this in my pajamas.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
LCYQ
39° 28.698N
75° 00.122W
I need to become more organized for these hunts.
This evening was the annual All City String Concert at Memorial School in Vineland, NJ. This is the showcase of all the students who play string instruments from grade 4 through 12. It is a nice show each year. My students are always so eager to play an instrument. It’s interesting to see who keeps with it as the years roll along. 
Anyhow, after dinner as I was preparing to go (Fritz smeared tomato sauce all over me so I had to change) I recall some hunt about a live concert. I didn’t remember the particulars, but thought I needed a shot of people clapping at a concert. All night I concentrated getting a shot of the folks in front of me clapping. The lighting was rough, I was in the back, and I only had my little camera. I had the GPS too, but it didn’t feel right to raise it for the shot. Thankfully, that wasn’t required.
Anyhow, the clapping I see was not needed. Ah, so the folks around can speak of what a weird guy I am. It wouldn’t be the first time.
The music seems to be getting better each year.
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