Comments on: State of the Hopeful Union

By: sally lord

sally lord — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:34:06 +0000

Hi Lily, It is Sally Lord from Chico Service Center-CTA Retired Liaison. Just read the Nea article on Unleashing the Power of NEA Members. Thank you again for enouraging teachers to keep on keeping on. Right now in Chico Chico Unified School Dist is about to go to State Recievership or whatever it is called. I work 2 hrs per day at Parkview Elementary School in Chico as an enrichment teacher. I teach yoyo skills, beg. tennis skills, wood and crafts, and more. For the past two months I have been able to lead camp singing(rounds, two part songs, and more) during the gen. assembly after the homework and before the enrichments-the kids know about 10 songs now. I taught 39 years at CK Price Middle School in Orland, Ca a small town 20 miles west of ‘Chico. I am now having as much fun as I ever did-maybe more fun just teaching kids what they need to learn and having fun with them. My collegues that are actively teaching are feeling much like your friend in Utah about possibly quitting cause school just isnt like it used to be and should still be. I am sad and worried. I grew up in CA and had the best education ever which set the tone for the way I presented history and Pe curriculum to my students from 1968 until now but new teachers are not able to teach from their hearts any more…. that is scary. Please, please, keep trying to keep Public Education a place for All. Please, keep trying to talk to Obama and his “handlers” about not selling PUblic Education “down the river” The rich control so much of the political policy decisions in the Us, the remaining citizens are left to struggle and strive and not get what is rightfully theirs. I am saddened and I feel like our ship is sinking. Please, let me know how I can help change the seemingly doomed course for Public education if in fact that doomed course is even stoppable. Thank you for all you do to carry our education torch. I think you and some other Nea leaders are are only hope to save Public education. sally lord, Chico, Ca

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:53:13 +0000

I agree with Mike, How can you believe anything that comes out of the master deceptors mouth. He’s done nothing but promise and lie for one year and what has he delivered–a big fat nothing. I work in the school system and I cant understand how some of these teachers are allowed to teach. They dont come out of school very bright, cant think out of the box and are ilogical. Give me the teachers of the 50′s and we would have students that learn. Instead, we are passing kids on who cant even read, write or do math. Just what the govenment wants, a bunch of dumb sheep who depend on the goverment for all their needs. Sound familiar? Wake up and smell the coffee. If we dont wake up soon we will all be equal—equally poor and living off the government. They are trying so hard to control every aspect of our lives and with uneducated people who are led like sheep to slaughter, we will be there soon.

By: Diane C.

Diane C. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:29:51 +0000

Lily,
Thank you for your productive comments regarding what the President shared and what possibilities that gives all of us for holding him (and his staff) to his promises. We can all support you and NEA by writing our representatives and letting them know where we stand on these things. It’s not up to just the President. It’s up to all of us.
Diane

By: Ernestine Ussery

Ernestine Ussery — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:43:54 +0000

Hi Lily: I missed our President’s speech. Thanks for helping me capture some of the important pieces of his conversation around education.

By: Nicole S.

Nicole S. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:54:40 +0000

Lily — it’s good to see people who recognize that investing in education is the best way to improve our economy. My school district was just one of the many districts around the country that benefited from the stimulus bill, and that makes a lot of sense to me. The better educated students we produce today, the more good, long-term jobs we’ll create tomorrow. And, as you mentioned, community colleges are very important to producing an educated workforce. I was glad to hear Obama talk about that.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:53:15 +0000

lol you are a fool. This man is the master of deception and you swallow every word.