What's funny is a story I heard about the teachers telling the kids that they will lose their freedom from the budget cuts????? how does that get digested in their lives???? I'm all for the kids learning about the budget talks....but really??.......GIVE THEM THE WHOLE STORY....show them the budgets/CAFR/union dues/school tax bill etc etc........
Soooooooooooo.....the mohonasen teachers ACTUALLY lured these kids into doing their bidding for them? They should be ashamed of themselves.
There is clearly more than enough to cut on top. It wouldn't and shouldn't hurt the kids at all!!
How did the middle school principal find this out? Or was it an after thought?
I remember seeing the schalmont teachers on the news a few years back picketing in front of the school and wearing their 'strike' t-shirts in the classroom. I though that was shameful even then.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
How did the middle school principal find this out? Or was it an after thought?
From an angry parent who received the following email;
"Hello Team 6-2 parents/guardians,
As we are sure you are aware, Mohonasen is facing a budget crisis. We stand to lose $3.8 million--13% of our budget--due to proposed state funding cuts. In your child's social studies class, we have been discussing what this will mean for students. While we have stressed that your child will still get the best education we have to offer, we also noted that some things will have to change if the district does lose this state funding. Increased class sizes, the elimination of freshman sports and field trips, and fewer activity period buses are all being considered as Mohonasen looks to balance our budget.
With all of this mind, we have started a "letters to your legislator" contest. We are providing students with their legislators' addresses and a template that models proper business letter format. This will allow for a real-world lesson in literacy and participation in government. The students are already very excited about this contest; on Friday alone, we collected over 70 letters! For this contest, students can enlist family, friends, and neighbors to help them write their letters. The student who brings in the most letters by this Friday (March 25) will win the contest. PTSO will then deliver all letters to the appropriate legislator. If you prefer that your child not participate in the contest, an alternate assignment will be provided.
The following page on the Mohonasen website provides more information about this year's budget. It also has a sample letter and a link to a list of legislator's names and addresses. We invite you to write your own letters to send in with your child by this Friday. It may help your child win the contest, but more importantly, it will help us win state funding for your child's education.
With all of this mind, we have started a "letters to your legislator" contest. We are providing students with their legislators' addresses and a template that models proper business letter format. This will allow for a real-world lesson in literacy and participation in government. The students are already very excited about this contest; on Friday alone, we collected over 70 letters! For this contest, students can enlist family, friends, and neighbors to help them write their letters. The student who brings in the most letters by this Friday (March 25) will win the contest. PTSO will then deliver all letters to the appropriate legislator. If you prefer that your child not participate in the contest, an alternate assignment will be provided.
That is what is called coercion. Teachers are shameless. This is coercion of the worst kind because they are using their authority on impressionable young children. Disgusting. Don't teachers pay union due to lobby legislators? Now they feel they can use our children through coercion to write favorable letters to protect their jobs? Has anybody filed a lawsuit? Send the letter to Bill O'Riley, see if it gets national attention.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ~ H.L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~ H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ~H. L. Mencken
heheheh they really do think they are so smart They really thought they would get a big gold star for this, heheheh senders got it right soon we wont need teachers and administrators. maybe even free market schooling.
We didnt come this far to get this far. random 12 year old
A slave is someone that waits for someone else to free him. Ezra Pound
Not going to be done on the taxpayers dime, if the teachers spent the same amount of time teaching maybe the kids could learn something. Sending a copy to Bill O'Riley is a great idea and let the rest of the world know what the teachers do instead of teach.
Perhaps sending it to channel 6 news, the only media outlet that at least puts an effort forth and 'listens' and follows through!! Perhaps then to the TU, Spotlight, Vandenburg and Rooney. And cc it to gov. cuomo AND mohonasen's super!!!!
It is absolutely disgraceful and the teacher's union and mohonasen should be sued for the exploitation of children!!! Because that's what it is. Shame on Mohonasen!!!
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
The students are already very excited about this contest;
ALL the students are very excited? They don't know what they are writing in support of. Teachers have children writing to legislators so they can raise taxes on their parents. It's crazy...I can't believe this never hit the news.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ~ H.L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~ H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ~H. L. Mencken
The students are already very excited about this contest;
yeah Ill bet they are, just like when they had the hindu lady come in for a big candle lit prayer meeting and even charged five bucks a head for the treat its all for the childrens indoctrination.
We didnt come this far to get this far. random 12 year old
A slave is someone that waits for someone else to free him. Ezra Pound
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