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Scott Walker's laid-off teacher story turns out to be a phonyhttp://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/scott-walker-s-laid-off-teacher-story-turns-out-to/article_54823f49-58de-5e30-9526-6722b3be5f96.html
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Scott Walker raised Wisconsin educators' eyebrows late last month when he told an Iowa audience that the 2010 "outstanding teacher of the year in my state" was laid off to make room for a teacher protected by union rules.
This was one of the reasons he fought so hard for Act 10 his "bold way" of dismantling teachers unions and their contracts Walker told the impressed Iowa Republican audience.
Many in Wisconsin education circles suspected the governor was telling yet another of his trademark fibs.
And, indeed, he was.
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spanone
(135,924 posts)must be
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)elleng
(131,370 posts)and he MUST NOT go any farther!
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)All the racist freaks are drawn to this guy. It's too late for us. Save yourselves!
They_Live
(3,246 posts)Oh wait. Oh. Oh no! I'm so sorry.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)shouldn't vote this guy to position in DC.
It's a terrible thing but the radical libertarian leaning teajad has captured the votes of a lot of people who feel racial and gender inequality, exploiting and degrading the environment and anti-social attitudes are motivations to vote.
elleng
(131,370 posts)world wide wally
(21,760 posts)edhopper
(33,658 posts)Williams gets reamed for a sketchy anecdote.
But pols like Walker can lie all they want and the media shrugs.
There are no repercussions for their dishonesty.
Diremoon
(86 posts)It is not just that they are given a free pass on their BS, they have to be adept at it to be accepted.
If there can be anything truly evil, it is republicans.
calimary
(81,594 posts)Glad you're here! We've been banging our heads against this asshole and trying to get him removed - THREE TIMES!!! I still can't believe after all that went on a few years ago that Wisconsin voted to keep him in office. We had a recall! And that failed. I can't tell you how disappointed and discouraged we all felt. AWFUL. What did this guy do? Sell his soul to the Devil or something? I don't know how he survived - except for maybe some underhanded doings that we've unfortunately come to expect from the other tribe.
I STILL can't figure that out. Hey, Wisconsin, you really WANT this? THIS is okay with you? To screw your teachers, fire fighters and police? Seriously? This is okay with you? I do NOT understand it. And it comes down to the voters. THEY are the ones who decide this - and they are certainly the ones who were taken in all three times with this guy. It's just beyond frustrating!!!!
republi-CONS are indeed truly evil.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)NBC did way more damage on 6 months than any politician could do to his her career. ie anyone want to work for NBC where you have to be perfect now. Stress factor smh
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Tell me, do you think I'm dumb?"
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)When faced with the truth, he punts.
Whatever the fuck that means.
I suppose some weird ass sports reference mean so much more when given in a country which doesn't play American football.
murielm99
(30,782 posts)punting on the Thames, in boats called punts. They were probably very confused by what he said.
I would like to see him poling down the river in one of those boats. He would almost certainly fall into the water.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Words have no physical form, topics are thoughts not objects.
It's like saying "I'll shout that fish"
If he meant he wouldn't answer, he should have said so.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)in both rugby and American football. You punt a conservation topic to get it away from you.
MADem
(135,425 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)murielm99
(30,782 posts)It is a great letter, written by an articulate, well-educated person. She seems the opposite of Scottie.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/11/1363744/-Scott-Walker-Lies-About-Wisconsin-Teacher-of-the-Year-Real-Teacher-of-the-Year-Responds
3rd UPDATE:: Since this diary is still on the rec list, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the previous diary by Jud Lounsberry, Myth Busting Scott Walker's "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story regarding Megan Sampson, the teacher, Walker cited as having lost her job thanks to the union even though she was a Teacher of the Year. I recommend you read it, as it lays out the facts regarding Walker's lies in even greater detail with respect to Ms. Sampson being let go. A brief excerpt:
Another source, the All Politics Blog at the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel dated March 10, 2011, makes this clear:
She declined the job offer from MPS, and is teaching English at Wauwatosa East High School.
Cha
(298,018 posts)FSogol
(45,582 posts)by the Koch outlets.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Reflexively, I want to label Scott Walker as a bag of shit. Of course, the SNAG is that I have way more respect for a bag of shit. A bag of shit doesn't pretend to be something it's not. Scott walker, on the other hand, tries to present himself as a member of the human race.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Dear Governor Walker:
I was both surprised and bewildered last week when I saw a news clip of you stumping in Iowa about Megan Sampson, whom you called The [2010] Outstanding Teacher of the Year in my State. This was baffling to me since in 2010, I was named Wisconsin High School Teacher of the Year (Maureen Look-Ainsworth, Middle School Teacher of the Year; Peggy Wuenstel, Special Services Teacher of the Year; and Michael Brinnen, Elementary Teacher of the Year). In a most humbling ceremony, we were each surprised at our respective schools by State Superintendent Tony Evers and later honored at the State Capital as the Wisconsin Teachers of the Year.
And so, as one of the bonafide 2010-2011 Wisconsin Teachers of the Year, I feel the need to engage in one of the most valuable skills we teach our students, critical analysis.
Verified by multiple news sources, it turns out that Megan Sampson did win an award in 2010, but it was the Nancy Hoefs Memorial Award given by a relatively small organization of Wisconsin English teachers (WCTE) for an outstanding first year teacher of language arts. She was one of less than a dozen teachers across the state who self-nominated for this award.
You failed to mention these details as you used Sampsons lay-off from her first year teaching position as an opportunity to bash Wisconsin schools on the national stage. You blamed the seniority system for Sampsons lay-off when, in good conscience, you should have done some serious soul searching and placed the blame squarely on your systematic defunding of public education to the tune of $2.6 billion that you cut from school districts, state aid to localities, the UW-System and technical colleges.
This Wisconsin Teacher of the Year would like to clarify precisely what youve done for education.
2010-2011 was a surreal school year to be named Teacher of the Year as that was the year your passage of Act 10 marked the exodus of thousands of outstanding veteran teachers from the profession they love and marked the beginning of an extreme strain on our ability to continue providing the excellent public education Wisconsin has always been known for.
And what have you done lately? In just the past month, it seems you have once again actively declared war on education in your own state:
Youve directed the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to devise content exams that would certify anyone with a degree to become a certified teacher. The ramifications of this move are nothing short of catastrophic and would grossly diminish what data has repeatedly shown to be the single most important factor in student learning: the quality of the classroom teacher. Allowing someone to teach without any training in HOW to teach, in effective pedagogy, in student behavior, brain research, motivation, and classroom management is akin to allowing someone who says Im not a doctor, but I play one on t.v. to give you a heart transplant.
Continuing your bellicose streak (war is war, right?) you cut to the jugular by proposing a 13% across-the-board budget cut from the Wisconsin University System, our cornerstone of higher education, the source of much of our skilled and educated workforce, the center for research and development for our state. Aside from clearly being anti-education, this move is clearly anti-growth.
Psychological warfare has been your most recent tactic when you attempted to (and later tried to blame it on a clerical error) revise The Wisconsin Idea, the sacred credo of the UW system articulated over a century ago. You sought to omit mention of public service and improving the human condition (you do realize that as Governor, you are considered a public servant?) You also tried to delete the phrase: Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth. Truth. Hmm
I guess I shouldnt be surprised about that one.
Your tenure as Governor has demonstrated nothing less than a systematic attempt to dismantle public education, the cornerstone of democracy and the ladder of social mobility for any society.
How our paths have diverged from that August afternoon in 1986. True story: it was freshman orientation just outside Memorial Union. We were two of a couple thousand new Marquette University freshman wistful about what our futures held. Four years later, I graduated from Marquette and later became Wisconsin High School Teacher of the Year. You never graduated, and you became the Governor of the State of Wisconsin bent on dismantling public education. Ironic, isnt it? Situational irony at its best. Id laugh if its ramifications werent so utterly destructive for the state of Wisconsin.
Sincerely,
Claudia Klein Felske
2010-2011 Wisconsin High School Teacher of the Year
Marquette University Class of 1990
Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)red dog 1
(27,913 posts)calimary
(81,594 posts)MAN does that nail it!
Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)like who, what, and why. The "outstanding teacher of the year" was not laid off. Another teacher who won an award for her first year teaching was. She wasn't laid off due to union action as much as Walker's own cuts to school funding. With insufficient funds to keep all their teachers, schools had to let some teachers go. Many went through early retirement, but when more force reductions had to be made, new hires went next.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)barf
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)why any teachers had to be laid off?
Oh, he cut funding for education. Looks like this little story of his indicts him as the reason any teacher lost her job. But I would not expect his fan club to ask him about it.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)louis-t
(23,310 posts)Lying liars.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)C Moon
(12,226 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)by filing for welfare, Social Security and other programs under different names. The story was later debunked.
To Republicans, this kind of story telling is standard procedure. Even if it's later debunked, your message has already reached your target audience and they've heard what they want to hear and nothing's going to change their thinking. I know. I live in an area loaded with such people.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)SoonerShankle
(322 posts)Thanks for sharing this powerful letter composed by the real Wisconsin Teacher of the Year.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)and you still have an accurate thread title!
red dog 1
(27,913 posts)Scott Walker has to go!
Another recall campaign, perhaps?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,052 posts)All the time. It's all they have and besides, they get away with it all the time.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)supercats
(429 posts)Which according to the republican party, thats called a virtue. If he killed somebody at point blank range, and the body was lying next to him he could be interviewed on national TV within seconds of killing him and without blinking an eye explain it away. He has absolutely no moral compass. And thats why he's the perfect Koched backed candidate. And thats also why he needs to be removed from politics forever. He's that scary. He's basically Dick Cheney's son.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)n/t
Grantuspeace
(873 posts)The national media would rip him apart. Everything from his secret campaign computer network, to his leaving Marquette under mysterious circumstances. All his skeletons would be exposed.
MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)Do you actually think they would rip him apart?
You mean like they did John McLame, 1/2 Governor Sarah, or MittShit?
I must say - I have my doubts........................
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)He is a creep of the highest order.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)of completely repugnant (pun intended) candidates. They even include another Bush, as if we haven't had enough. I'm not a big Hillary fan, feel Warren is of much better use in the Senate for now, and have no hopes for Sanders. Democratic Socialism is what we badly need right now, but much of the country has a knee jerk reaction to systems of government that they don't take the time to truly understand. Different eras call for adjustments in governance, IF the governed are truly aware of their own best interests. Right now we are sinking fast. There are a few Democrats out there who are lesser known right now, who could hopefully surge forward.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,125 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)means " . Also , " always preach true democracy but seize power as fast and ruthless as
possible " .
MisterP
(23,730 posts)ditto Governor Voldemort and HSR, or Reagan and the "Nicaraguan genocide" he used to fund the Contras, who were as bad as ISIS but unable to hold any land or build any legitimacy
paleotn
(18,012 posts)....4 to 1 he's lying.
Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)If it's a good story and it could have happened, then that's good enough. Why grasp after facts when all you really need is faith?
mnhtnbb
(31,415 posts)They seize power and right away start to destroy public education. It's their priority.
And they lie. Oh, do they lie.
Good for the teacher for calling him out. That letter should be mailed to every voter
in the State of Wisconsin.
samsingh
(17,604 posts)liam_laddie
(1,321 posts)No, it's more a giganitc effing LIE, isn't it? Typical Walker statement!
athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)mwb970
(11,374 posts)What is WRONG with these people?