This morning several women in my office were discussing what the term “walk of shame” meant
For me it had a completely different meaning. it was the walk through the hotel lobby in Bangkok the next morning as you walk your boy/girl to the front entrance, everyone watching and hopefully jealous!!!!!
MM,
obviously, we are seeing that a disproportionate number of minorities are currently in forclosure or bankruptcy following the recent housing meltdown.
My point was that there is a similar and ongoing “sell” to the minority community in terms of having to go to college and having to pay through the nose in borrowing for college and having to get all sorts of degrees with no guarantee at making a living once you get out and are faced with 200k in student loans and no job market.
How about marketing the pros and cons of the situation to the high school students? Not just everyone has to go to college and pay 30 k a year to do so, whether or not you really want to.
This morning several women in my office were discussing what the term “walk of shame” meant and how sexist it was that only women are said to do that; men skate by.
I put “visit by benson” as a euphemism for “Not tonight, honey- I’ve got a migraine.”
denton- I went to public school as did the rest of my family and I watched my sister put her kids though public school too. None of us are fans of the unions but some folk use union bashing to bash teachers.
I am a public school parent and I have very few complaints. The teachers and principals at the schools my daughter has attended have learned to work together within the confines of the contract. That means no tenure for shitty teachers, recognition of good teachers, and a recognition that the school is there to teach the kids inside. The contract has never been as big an obstacle as the bullshit that comes down from the Department of Education.
Of course not every teacher was great, but you could say the same about every other worker.
If the DOE concentrated on working within the contract, they could get a lot further than bashing the union. The union is not going away. The DOE uses it as an excuse for its failures.
All that bullshit about the rubber rooms–as soon as the city funded enough positions for admin law judges to hold hearings and decide the cases of the rubber room teachers, voila! end of problem. I think the city didn’t fund the mediators sooner because it gave them a red herring to criticize the union.
“Aunt Floe staying in the Garden level”
ROFL! That was pretty good, but I’m going with “Sailing the Gowanus”.
By infinitejester on October 26, 2010 4:58 PM
This morning several women in my office were discussing what the term “walk of shame” meant
For me it had a completely different meaning. it was the walk through the hotel lobby in Bangkok the next morning as you walk your boy/girl to the front entrance, everyone watching and hopefully jealous!!!!!
MM,
obviously, we are seeing that a disproportionate number of minorities are currently in forclosure or bankruptcy following the recent housing meltdown.
My point was that there is a similar and ongoing “sell” to the minority community in terms of having to go to college and having to pay through the nose in borrowing for college and having to get all sorts of degrees with no guarantee at making a living once you get out and are faced with 200k in student loans and no job market.
How about marketing the pros and cons of the situation to the high school students? Not just everyone has to go to college and pay 30 k a year to do so, whether or not you really want to.
denton — I saw at least two men saying they know what sailing the gowanus is like because men have to deal with women while they are sailing.
Visiting benson??????
This morning several women in my office were discussing what the term “walk of shame” meant and how sexist it was that only women are said to do that; men skate by.
I put “visit by benson” as a euphemism for “Not tonight, honey- I’ve got a migraine.”
denton- I went to public school as did the rest of my family and I watched my sister put her kids though public school too. None of us are fans of the unions but some folk use union bashing to bash teachers.
No, bxgrl, mainly the NYC DOE.
I am a public school parent and I have very few complaints. The teachers and principals at the schools my daughter has attended have learned to work together within the confines of the contract. That means no tenure for shitty teachers, recognition of good teachers, and a recognition that the school is there to teach the kids inside. The contract has never been as big an obstacle as the bullshit that comes down from the Department of Education.
Of course not every teacher was great, but you could say the same about every other worker.
If the DOE concentrated on working within the contract, they could get a lot further than bashing the union. The union is not going away. The DOE uses it as an excuse for its failures.
All that bullshit about the rubber rooms–as soon as the city funded enough positions for admin law judges to hold hearings and decide the cases of the rubber room teachers, voila! end of problem. I think the city didn’t fund the mediators sooner because it gave them a red herring to criticize the union.
And, Benson, the principals have their own union.
“By daveinbedstuy on October 26, 2010 8:58 AM
Did any of you see the recent poll published this morning in am that New Yorkers are more stupid than Phildelphians?”
This is so unintentionally funny. Kind of undercuts the point, no? Was this the fault of the unions, dave?