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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=pri_dk]But one thing won’t work: Making teaching even less attractive as a profession.[/quote]

Agree with this, pri_dk.

There’s at least a dozen teachers at every high school around here that have =>30 years on the job. Middle and elem schools avg 6-8 with =>30 years on the job.

How can all these teachers be replaced (most w/bilingual skills). Of the handful of unemployed (in the education field) teachers I know, they don’t have proper credentials to teach here. And most of them are not bilingual.

These 30+ yr teachers don’t make any more by getting up and going to work every day. Many just love kids and teaching. What if they all retired tomorrow??[/quote]

Obviously you never worked in education. The best thing to happen would be for the 30+ year teachers to retire. We hire younger, more up to date teachers at a cheaper rate. I guarantee most 60 year old teachers are not bi-lingual either. There wasn’t as much of a need back in the day when they graduate and became licensed. Again, a lot of the older teachers are coasting towards retirement. The fire is gone.

For example, when I started teaching in 2000 the teacher I replaced was still teaching MS Works. She had no desire to learn and re-tool to teach Office.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=pri_dk]But one thing won’t work: Making teaching even less attractive as a profession.[/quote]

Agree with this, pri_dk.

There’s at least a dozen teachers at every high school around here that have =>30 years on the job. Middle and elem schools avg 6-8 with =>30 years on the job.

How can all these teachers be replaced (most w/bilingual skills). Of the handful of unemployed (in the education field) teachers I know, they don’t have proper credentials to teach here. And most of them are not bilingual.

These 30+ yr teachers don’t make any more by getting up and going to work every day. Many just love kids and teaching. What if they all retired tomorrow??[/quote]

Obviously you never worked in education. The best thing to happen would be for the 30+ year teachers to retire. We hire younger, more up to date teachers at a cheaper rate. I guarantee most 60 year old teachers are not bi-lingual either. There wasn’t as much of a need back in the day when they graduate and became licensed. Again, a lot of the older teachers are coasting towards retirement. The fire is gone.

For example, when I started teaching in 2000 the teacher I replaced was still teaching MS Works. She had no desire to learn and re-tool to teach Office.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Djshakes]But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS![/quote]

Did you post this with a “straight face,” Djshakes??[/quote]

Okay, so I pretended to be Briansd for a minute. Can’t I indulge?

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Djshakes]But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS![/quote]

Did you post this with a “straight face,” Djshakes??[/quote]

Okay, so I pretended to be Briansd for a minute. Can’t I indulge?

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Djshakes]But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS![/quote]

Did you post this with a “straight face,” Djshakes??[/quote]

Okay, so I pretended to be Briansd for a minute. Can’t I indulge?

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Djshakes]But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS![/quote]

Did you post this with a “straight face,” Djshakes??[/quote]

Okay, so I pretended to be Briansd for a minute. Can’t I indulge?

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Djshakes]But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS![/quote]

Did you post this with a “straight face,” Djshakes??[/quote]

Okay, so I pretended to be Briansd for a minute. Can’t I indulge?

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But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS!

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But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS!

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But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS!

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But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS!

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But this would be mean. They just come here to work and make life better for themselves. We are a nation of immigrants. Why do you like hurting these people? CA was theirs to begin with. It doesn’t matter if they took it from the Spanish and occupied it for barely 20 years. THIS LAND WAS THEIRS!

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About how hard it is to comprehend how people are driven by people like Chris Matthews and Nancy Pelosi.[/quote]

I’m not motivated by either one of them.

I do however admire Pelosi from being one of most effective legislators in US history and the first female Speaker of the House.

You may not agree with Pelosi, but she’s good at what she does (although she’s not that well spoken).

About Palin and Bachman, it’s fun to watch their masses of Tea Party followers in action.[/quote]

You seem to forget that they clung to the tea party…not the other way around.

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[quote=briansd1][quote=Djshakes]
About how hard it is to comprehend how people are driven by people like Chris Matthews and Nancy Pelosi.[/quote]

I’m not motivated by either one of them.

I do however admire Pelosi from being one of most effective legislators in US history and the first female Speaker of the House.

You may not agree with Pelosi, but she’s good at what she does (although she’s not that well spoken).

About Palin and Bachman, it’s fun to watch their masses of Tea Party followers in action.[/quote]

You seem to forget that they clung to the tea party…not the other way around.

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[quote=briansd1][quote=Djshakes]
About how hard it is to comprehend how people are driven by people like Chris Matthews and Nancy Pelosi.[/quote]

I’m not motivated by either one of them.

I do however admire Pelosi from being one of most effective legislators in US history and the first female Speaker of the House.

You may not agree with Pelosi, but she’s good at what she does (although she’s not that well spoken).

About Palin and Bachman, it’s fun to watch their masses of Tea Party followers in action.[/quote]

You seem to forget that they clung to the tea party…not the other way around.

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