This is an outrage. I am willing to strike for these jobs.

Go to hell, Woody.

In regards to the “wisdom” of you and other socialists, this statement is appropriate: “What seems reasonable while talking to other true believers turns out to be bat-s**t crazy when normal people hear it.”

I notice that you answered my comments, so you were interested in reading them, but I also noticed that you couldn’t counter them, so they must be right.

reg, have you considered that your uncontrolled use of foul language might be a unique written extension of Tourettes syndrome? Surely, you have qualified yourself for some government medical handout.

You are so pathetic.

reg, if Celeste doesn’t like it, all she has to do is to tell me, and I’ll be gone. However, to keep your socialist double-speak illogic in check, someone like me has to be around.

You peruse liberal magazines and post quotes from them rather than being able to reason on your own and try to pass that off as some kind of wisdom. Phony wisdom, if anything. Oh, let me add elitist. And, many times, you don’t even get it right, as you admitted in #7. Excuse me if I and others don’t appreciate your eloquent nonsense.

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Have you ever wondered why teachers evaluate students on their test scores but then say that those test scores are not a good way to evaluate themselves? Oh, maybe because it’s objective and measurable rather than subjective with a lot of wiggle room so as to make many teachers look good when they’re not.

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reg: instruction in fields of their expertixe exist – I’m involved in one

Those poor kids…learning that they can play with words to deceive, that capitalizm is evil, that cussing out opponents makes for better arguments, and that being irrational will get you through life. No wonder that you’re a volunteer. Who would want to pay for anything that you have to share with the kids? And, oh yes, you have to have a college degree for a paid teaching job. I guess that puts you out of a large market.

It’s amazing how wingnuts call everyone else “elitist” and then dispense half-baked wisdom as though they think they have the answer to everything. The Georgia accountant is particularly bufoonish in this regard. Incoherence (see his Comment #8 and try to make some sense of it) and bigoted, shitty attitude dispensed as “wisdom.” It’s a damned shame this good blog is polluted constantly by this utterly predictable, nonsensical crap.

And the NYT once again bangs the “merit pay” drum on the website frontpage: “President Obama issued a challenge to states and renewed his support for a merit-based system of pay.”

Apparently, Obama even has the NYT confused with his similar and ill-defined words. I guess it depends upon what the meaning of “is” is.

Isn’t it funny that “performance” is meant to apply to the teachers in some funny, unspecified way while ignoring “performance” of students, which is measurable.

Do you know why the NEA opposes “merit pay?” Because it holds teachers accountable for results. However, using the term “performance pay” misleads people into thinking that it’s the same and something good and shuts them up.

Naturally, if it’s misleading, backed by the union, and spoken by Obama, then reg is for it. What a crock!