Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Flash FLASH Bang BANG

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Flash FLASH Bang BANG

We be having a bit of rain just now......

FLASHBANG!

3 comments:

TenMile said...: Teach:

Question; Has your school Administrator served any indication of a continuing plan after culling all the possible tenures?; April 21, 2012 at 8:15 PM
Carteach said...: Not sure what your question is TenMile, but I think I can answer anyway.

I think the director has... sort of... a plan. It involves the school moving heavily into post-secondary education with paying students, making our 'public' school into a profitable enterprise. It also means non-union and much lower paid instructor positions. In a tech school.... it also means competing with private sector for people... and low pay means low quality.

I think the Principal has no plan at all, except hanging onto the job he's been angling after for a years now. As such, he's fine with whatever the director does.

He's really not the man I thought he was. My error in judgement. Other instructors did not make that error, and are making their own plans for their future. That may in part explain how many people are leaving.; April 21, 2012 at 8:23 PM
TenMile said...: Thank you. That did answer the question.

Grats on the patch.; April 21, 2012 at 10:07 PM

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I have this philosophy.... All humans are faced with a choice.

They can become students of human nature, trying to recognize the good and bad within themselves... or they can choose to ignore human nature, and act simply on drives, desires, and instincts. The former is what sets mankind aside from animals, and the latter is to act as an animal.

Making the first choice is harder, more complicated, and creates a difficult path to follow... for it's the basis of knowing right from wrong. There are those who study human nature, and themselves, and actively try to better themselves and do what is right. There are others... people who study human nature, note the flaws inherent to the unthinking herd, and use them as a means to control.

There is no danger greater than the refusal to see, and to think. Doing so leaves one a pawn to anyone awake, aware, and driven to power over others.

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.