PC Gone Wild! (Case #378,952,6……)

In Denair, California, a 13 year old who flew an American flag from his bicycle was told he could not fly that flag on his public school campus – and the day before Veteran’s Day he was told to take it off although he had flown the flag for months. It seems that the “authorities” were concerned that the American flag would initiate “racial tensions.”

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-americanflagbike11122010,0,3045879.htmlstory

“The Shellackee in Chief”

Props to Ruth Marcus for her column in the Washington Post (and reprinted today in the NC Times,”Clueless on a shellacking” — she is at least one Obama supporter who “gets it.” (O.K. Chris Matthews is another.)

Further, she turns a few good phrases on the NC Times Op-Ed page today: I particularly liked, “Rorschach test” Democrat: People saw in his candidacy what they chose to perceive,” but “the shellackee in chief” ain’t half-bad.

The problem with the Democrats appears to be within the confines of the White House.

Tone deaf.

Eureka! (“I found it!”)

Filed Under: Tone-Deaf Politicians Looking For Fraud and Waste

Obama panel probes stimulus waste — at Ritz Carlton

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
11/11/10 10:10 AM EST

“Members of a key panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, have scheduled a meeting on November 22 to consider ways to prevent “fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.” The meeting will be held at the super-luxe Ritz Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-panel-probes-stimulus-waste—-at-Ritz-Carlton-107236598.html#ixzz152RpA4j2

 

Who Would Have Guessed?

What we have here, is a failure to communicate.

It seems that the San Diego Unified School System does not have tenure for the teachers.

That’s right, and the head of the teachers union insists that is true.

Teachers in the San Diego Unified School District have “Permanent status” – not tenure!

It takes a teacher in that district – the largest in the county, just two years to acquire “permanent status.” (NOT Tenure!)

There are many smaller school districts in the County, and they deny (Permanent Status)(Tenure) after probationary periods at differing rates: Grossmont Union School District, for example, denies (Permanent Status)(Tenure) to 7% of its probationers; Sweetwater Union 5%. San Diego denies its probationers, whatever they wont call it, at a less than 1% rate.

Last year San Diego refused (whatever) to two teachers.   (A few years ago, that number was 38!)

In the past, the union firmly controlled the San Diego Unified School Board. Today it is “only” every sitting member but one, and he had union support in this last election until he left the reservation on a single subject .

Bet you could not have guessed that the union controls the district.

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/education/schooled/article_4e941ec0-ed51-11df-bcde-001cc4c002e0.html