Until the students start paying dues to the teacher's union, the union will not give a shit about the students, and neither will the administrators or most teachers.
Here's the question I want asked as to the teachers' union's values (which of course means nobody is going to):
Assuming the DA is an elected position, who did the teachers' union endorse in the last election?
And my suspicion is, they supported the same person whose office half-assed the "investigations", opted to not pursue charges, and allowed the alleged offenders' continued access to the victim pool.
(If the teachers' union there is anything like the teachers' and public workers' unions in my AO, the other option would have been to endorse a Republican ... so yeah, that was never going to happen, student safety or no student safety.)
Agree. The teacher's union might send them a thank-you note for the union dues but "give a shit" about them? No, not beyond their dues-paying. I wouldn't tar all unions with the same brush but the teacher's unions are "special" IMO. If Upton Sinclair was alive today and shed his socialist leanings, I bet he'd take the teacher's union to task and re-write The Jungle.
If it's anything like the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PA's Teachers' Union), they still won't give a shit. PSEA bends over backwards to protect the lazy, incompetent, and just plain awful teachers, but will gladly throw the good ones who actually care about their students under the bus.
Ian, don't be concerned that your footnote #1 was typed by you; those words are a direct statement from the Buffalo City Schools Biard of Education. Uttered by the Superintendent of Schools. You simply quoted her.
Since Buffalo, NY is the major population center about 25 miles in a direct line due West of where I live, this uproar has boosted the local media news cycle since Monday.
Do I believe Det. Richard Hy? Yes. Past experience with the peccadillos of Public School personnel (All I'll say is that the Districts run to their insurance carriers for legal and financial help; lawyers & Money, when they get jammed up.) leads me to believe the situations he described were NOT infrequent and much more severe. That's in light of media reports of the fine citizens and students violently settling differences.
The Progressives were caught and exposed like an unfaithful spouse with their lover being posted on OnlyFans.
As the old saying goes, 'it's not the crime, but the coverup'. The best course of action when something bad happens is to get it into the open- to fix what you can, and take appropriate responsibility.
Hiding and covering up is quick and easy, but usually ends up coming back to bite one in the butt. Not only is the original problem there, but now the bigger problems that it bred while under cover have to be dealt with too. Sig & the ongoing debacle of the 320 come to mind.
Back when it was realized that Covid was very little threat to the young, I found one particular irony in their position. Up until that point, they went on and on about how school lunches were sometimes the only good meal many poor kids got. But, when Winnie the Flu hit and the panic begun, they fought long and hard to keep the schools closed.
So... what about those poor kids you were so concerned for? If they really cared, shouldn't they be the ones fighting to get the doors open? No?
Class- what does that attitude show regarding their actual attitude towards the wellbeing of the student? Besides all the other obvious things.
On the other hand, the story says she's an academic support teacher for the hard-case students. Who will lie like there's no tomorrow. It's a perfect predatory environment.
What can be done for these kids? They can't be homeschooled because home is where Mommy's Boyfriend(s) live, and mommy rents them out for drugs. The foster care system is a crap shoot at best. No trad school is safe, students or staff while they're there. Prison- and alt-ed schools are magnets for predators. What a mess.
I'm inclined to believe it's true for several reasons:
1) my Mom was an academic support aide at that high school. Unless things have changed, the administration (and the district as a whole) doesn't give a crap about the academic support students. More than a few under her watch were being actively bullied by teachers, including physical harassment, and the admins' reaction was "so what?"
2) like I said on Ian's previous post, the district actively works to bury any sort of investigation or other "problem" that could cause even the slightest whiff of bad publicity. The fact that they allowed any of this to see the light of day tells me that they realized it was too big for them to bury, or else they tried to "handle it internally" and failed.
3) her mother is a lawyer and VERY influential in local politics, so again the fact that her mother couldn't keep it quiet or make it go away is a big red flag.
4) My parents and I talked about this last night, and if we remember right she had a "reputation" in high school and then got thrown out of college (she was attending a small Christian school) after sneaking a boy into her room after visiting hours and "doing the deed." So it sounds like she hasn't changed much.
Regarding #2, I wonder if it's coming out not because the story got too big to bury, but because some concerned third party caught wind of it, dug in as much as possible -- finding out what was *reported* (by the students/parents) differed from what was *recorded* (by the teachers/admins/LEOs/unions) -- and simply refused to let it be buried.
At that point, the story is going to out, so the district's best move is to get out in front of it. The only other option is to be exposed with their pants down (distasteful pun not intended) and come off as abusive AND incompetent. (And when it comes to teaching, for some reason it's thought better to be known as abusive than incompetent.)
But my thought is that someone honest took that good hard look, else this would never have seen the light of day.
Teachers' unions, like all other labor unions, have as their first priority, themselves. It is the reason they form and the reason they continue to exist.
Appropriate. Pull this finger. Sounds like a dad joke to his young toddler, to the mortification of the mother. But not really funny in the context of this post. (Sometimes I just feel compelled to comment.)
Until the students start paying dues to the teacher's union, the union will not give a shit about the students, and neither will the administrators or most teachers.
Here's the question I want asked as to the teachers' union's values (which of course means nobody is going to):
Assuming the DA is an elected position, who did the teachers' union endorse in the last election?
And my suspicion is, they supported the same person whose office half-assed the "investigations", opted to not pursue charges, and allowed the alleged offenders' continued access to the victim pool.
(If the teachers' union there is anything like the teachers' and public workers' unions in my AO, the other option would have been to endorse a Republican ... so yeah, that was never going to happen, student safety or no student safety.)
Agree. The teacher's union might send them a thank-you note for the union dues but "give a shit" about them? No, not beyond their dues-paying. I wouldn't tar all unions with the same brush but the teacher's unions are "special" IMO. If Upton Sinclair was alive today and shed his socialist leanings, I bet he'd take the teacher's union to task and re-write The Jungle.
If it's anything like the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PA's Teachers' Union), they still won't give a shit. PSEA bends over backwards to protect the lazy, incompetent, and just plain awful teachers, but will gladly throw the good ones who actually care about their students under the bus.
Equally damning is that BPD and their DA's office did not pursue the issue with effort....
Ian, don't be concerned that your footnote #1 was typed by you; those words are a direct statement from the Buffalo City Schools Biard of Education. Uttered by the Superintendent of Schools. You simply quoted her.
Since Buffalo, NY is the major population center about 25 miles in a direct line due West of where I live, this uproar has boosted the local media news cycle since Monday.
Do I believe Det. Richard Hy? Yes. Past experience with the peccadillos of Public School personnel (All I'll say is that the Districts run to their insurance carriers for legal and financial help; lawyers & Money, when they get jammed up.) leads me to believe the situations he described were NOT infrequent and much more severe. That's in light of media reports of the fine citizens and students violently settling differences.
The Progressives were caught and exposed like an unfaithful spouse with their lover being posted on OnlyFans.
As the old saying goes, 'it's not the crime, but the coverup'. The best course of action when something bad happens is to get it into the open- to fix what you can, and take appropriate responsibility.
Hiding and covering up is quick and easy, but usually ends up coming back to bite one in the butt. Not only is the original problem there, but now the bigger problems that it bred while under cover have to be dealt with too. Sig & the ongoing debacle of the 320 come to mind.
Back when it was realized that Covid was very little threat to the young, I found one particular irony in their position. Up until that point, they went on and on about how school lunches were sometimes the only good meal many poor kids got. But, when Winnie the Flu hit and the panic begun, they fought long and hard to keep the schools closed.
So... what about those poor kids you were so concerned for? If they really cared, shouldn't they be the ones fighting to get the doors open? No?
Class- what does that attitude show regarding their actual attitude towards the wellbeing of the student? Besides all the other obvious things.
Around here everyone that applied for assistance got a free lunch delivered to them. And breakfast too if they asked
Meanwhile, your legislature is going to put you in jail for memes. It doesn't rain but it pours.
Remember what I said about my high school? Well...this just happened at said high school
https://6abc.com/post/Conestoga-high-school-teacher-Michelle-Mercogliano-charged-sex-with-student/16287990/
Freaky part is, I know her. We both attended the same school; she graduated a year after me. Her brother was in my class.
On the other hand, the story says she's an academic support teacher for the hard-case students. Who will lie like there's no tomorrow. It's a perfect predatory environment.
What can be done for these kids? They can't be homeschooled because home is where Mommy's Boyfriend(s) live, and mommy rents them out for drugs. The foster care system is a crap shoot at best. No trad school is safe, students or staff while they're there. Prison- and alt-ed schools are magnets for predators. What a mess.
I'm inclined to believe it's true for several reasons:
1) my Mom was an academic support aide at that high school. Unless things have changed, the administration (and the district as a whole) doesn't give a crap about the academic support students. More than a few under her watch were being actively bullied by teachers, including physical harassment, and the admins' reaction was "so what?"
2) like I said on Ian's previous post, the district actively works to bury any sort of investigation or other "problem" that could cause even the slightest whiff of bad publicity. The fact that they allowed any of this to see the light of day tells me that they realized it was too big for them to bury, or else they tried to "handle it internally" and failed.
3) her mother is a lawyer and VERY influential in local politics, so again the fact that her mother couldn't keep it quiet or make it go away is a big red flag.
4) My parents and I talked about this last night, and if we remember right she had a "reputation" in high school and then got thrown out of college (she was attending a small Christian school) after sneaking a boy into her room after visiting hours and "doing the deed." So it sounds like she hasn't changed much.
Regarding #2, I wonder if it's coming out not because the story got too big to bury, but because some concerned third party caught wind of it, dug in as much as possible -- finding out what was *reported* (by the students/parents) differed from what was *recorded* (by the teachers/admins/LEOs/unions) -- and simply refused to let it be buried.
At that point, the story is going to out, so the district's best move is to get out in front of it. The only other option is to be exposed with their pants down (distasteful pun not intended) and come off as abusive AND incompetent. (And when it comes to teaching, for some reason it's thought better to be known as abusive than incompetent.)
But my thought is that someone honest took that good hard look, else this would never have seen the light of day.
Teachers' unions, like all other labor unions, have as their first priority, themselves. It is the reason they form and the reason they continue to exist.
"Pull the other one."
Appropriate. Pull this finger. Sounds like a dad joke to his young toddler, to the mortification of the mother. But not really funny in the context of this post. (Sometimes I just feel compelled to comment.)