Does he not KNOW that teachers are being laid off????

[JanMichael]

WTF? I am turning this shit off.

[Danger Mouse]

1. 'Race to the Bottom'!

:puke:

[madrchsod]

2. i doubt it.....look at who is advising him

[Canuckistanian]

3. "Race for the Top" Bullshit.

It's a race for the very few that can afford it.

[eleny]

4. It's sad

[Still a Democrat]

5. A few other occupations if you haven't noticed n/t

[OhioChick]

6. I've noticed, as well. n/t

[JanMichael]

9. Obviously I have noticed. That said, that crap about "become

teachers" made me sick at that moment. I turned it off and put on a DVD...I have no more use for this shit.

[Skittles]

7. doesn't care

[OhioChick]

8. More lip service....election year is coming n/t

[Danger Mouse]

11. it's not that. this is what his education policy wants to do.

lay off teachers.

[donheld]

20. No he doesn't

I'm sure he knows.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. You know, the more I hear about this teacher thing, the more I think

he's throwing out the teachers with the bath water, and starting all over.

I don't know what to think. How about retraining people that still need jobs?

[LisaM]

12. Pitting states against each other to get education dollars is just sick

I hate the Race to the Top.

[Hello_Kitty]

22. Thank you. Making broke states cough up money they don't have to compete is just sick.

:puke:

[Starry Messenger]

23. Same here.

Like making starving people fight over a ham sandwich for the amusement of their betters.

[erodriguez]

13. Hey become a teacher... and be just like me an unemployed teacher

What we need are more newbies in programs like Teach for America, so we can drive down wages and lock experienced and dedicated educators out of the market.

[Tutankhamun]

14. I'm a teacher, and that job is like living in a battleground.

Every year we get more students, fewer teachers, less time, higher benchmarks, increasingly impoverished students, angrier administrators.

But Obama said we should think of teachers as "nation builders." I feel sooooooo much better!

:sarcasm:

[Daphne08]

29. I did it for seventeen years. Your comments resonate with me.

Arne Duncan is an idiot.

[UrbScotty]

15. Did you not HEAR him talk about the value of the teaching profession?

[QC]

16. Kick!

[Karmadillo]

17. President Be Lulled By My Words and Ignore My Deeds knows that very well.

nt

[Kurovski]

18. This is not one of Obama's better moments.

It's almost creepy. I think it's in part due to the tension of the seating arrangement/

[QC]

19. The ruling class is not affected by such things as teacher layoffs. n/t

[krispos42]

25. Bingo.

What they spend on private education is way offset by their property-tax cuts.

[QC]

27. And it's not like their four-named, trust-funded kids

are planning on being teachers.

The lives of the bottom 99% are about as remote to these people as the lives of Jivaro headhunters are to the rest of us.

[vssmith]

26. The ruling class send their kids to Phillips Exeter Academy and the like

[QC]

28. And their kids do not waste their youth with soul-destroying NCLB RTTP FCAT crap, either.

I interviewed once at an elite prep school (James Baker's alma mater) and the kids there, in classes of ten or fewer, sitting around oak tables, discussed the great books.

None of this Scantron "learning" for them, nosiree.

[Safetykitten]

21. Apparently no. Amazing

[Tatiana]

24. That was bizarre. Teachers are being RIF'ed and laid off across the country.

There aren't any teaching jobs out there, really. Unless, of course, you're a TFA'er that can replace a more experienced, higher salaried teacher... In that case, yeah, you might have a shot.

***Sigh***