As posted in FL BATS!
I write in stream of consciousness... TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT... NO CORRECTIONS... NO RE-READS. IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!
I write in stream of consciousness... TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT... NO CORRECTIONS... NO RE-READS. IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!
These are the words the UNIVERSE is telling me to share... WEE HAA!
It's been a long time since I've offered up a diatribe, but I think I woke up angry today.... Angry because I worked over 25 years to get to the top of the teacher pay scale, and in a swoop of folly my union took that away from me blaming a state bill. NO CREATIVE FORCE TO BATTLE IT, OR WEAVE AROUND WAS AVAILABLE TO THE "NEGOTIATORS!" Teachers nationally are falling into the hands of the tyrants who assault education and for the first time.... I am just one more! Unable to fight it... unable to find justice.... my entire career was made a big fat joke I never could count on. Why didn't you tell me that when I was getting hired? Oh! Let's not forget the state also wants to take some more of my pension fund. I am no longer 27 and ready to take on the world. My life was planned on the promises. I dedicated my life to kids and teaching. The broken promises that steal the dignity of any thinking being call for only thoughtless drones to engage in a life of education. I am not an unthinking drone. I am a loving, giving, well respected educator and you are spitting in my eye and stealing food from my children's college fund... Yeah! I'm angry today because my son can not afford the $900.00 his college texts will cost him. So much for investing in a pre paid college fund, who knew the books would cripple him? I guess college is only for the rich, and teachers are NOT that!. I have been the fool of wicked puppet masters who have come to my profession to steal the coins that glistened in the education coffers. I have NEVER been a fool for ANYONE! But without ability to fight it... I am made the fool to puppet masters who even pull my union's strings! Yeah! I'm angry this morning because my negotiated raise was never in my paycheck because my local can not get their act together, and no one cares to help us, and Christmas has come and gone, and the whole world wants to try to make me sound selfish because I dare to say this. I DARE to say.,.,, I AM WORTH THE PAY YOU PROMISED ME! And I dare to say that those who want to make you think that teachers are the problem have dollar signs in their eyes. SHAME ON US! WE HAVE ALLOWED THE WORKING CLASS TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE WOLVES! WHERE ARE THE UNIONS? Where is the voice of justice? Oh! I see.... they are just as shady as the wolves. Fangs draw blood... but not enlightenment. I have been enlightened. GET WITH IT, UNIONS! YOU MAKE THE BIG BUCKS, HAVE LITTLE CHOICE. PEOPLE ARE NOTICING THAT THE KING HAS NOOOOO CLOTHES! WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THAT INFORMATION? I will focus on the students I love, even if the system is failing them. That is the integrity I have to hold on to. That alone. And I will help the unions if they are willing... HOW DO WE MAKE THEM MORE WILLING TO SEE OUR PLIGHT AND THAT OF OUR STUDENTS? HOW DO WE ALLOW FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME TO SPEAK UP WITHOUT THE FEAR OF RETALIATION? My local has managed to run off or fire almost everyone WHO WORKED FOR US.... Who is next? WILL I BE THE NEXT TARGET OF THE EDUCATIONAL ASSAULT MAFIA? HAHAHAHA... LOL... LMAO.... (what else can make this laughable?) I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED. One must laugh... or one will cry.... even worse... there is the indifference we live with to subsist and survive the assault that so many just deny! DENIAL IS AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Wake Up America!
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