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Thursday, August 11, 2011

My growing viewpoint? I no longer see a point to talking about it.

I'm in the same boat as President Obama. In other words... I haven't the least iota of experience at macro-economics. That said, I see no way at all our current situation can end in anything less than extremely harsh times indeed.

No amount of pissing, moaning, complaining, discussing, pontificating, or talking about the situation will effect any cure.

I'm moving to preservation mode.

2 comments:

TenMile said...: GL with the school year.

Question: Of the 38 teach gone, how many were supervisory types? (given you'd lump all certificates)

Question: Of the 38 gone, where any of them in the rating group that lowered your awards? (from year before last to last year); August 11, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Carteach said...: How many were admin of some type? A handful. They included a few leeches without noticeable purpose, but also included one of the best principals we had.

No worries on that score... we've had more new people flooding into admin than ever, and now carry a ratio of about 1:5, admin to actual instruction.

I understand our 'broke' school has bought another building down the road, and plans to renovate it into swanky new administration offices... far removed from actual icky students. Could just be rumor. There is no downward communication about plans or goals, so who knows.

Meanwhile, our current principle who only last year swore to have his salary frozen... just took a big$$ salary increase (like... buy a new car type of increase). At the same time, all the support staff got a raise as well.... of one penny.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'rating group' or 'lower our awards'. As for the instructors who left, every one of them was either snapped up by a competing tech school or went back into private business. Most of them within hours.. not days... of leaving. They are good people.; August 11, 2011 at 8:42 AM

Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.