Do YOU have confidence in Sam Johnson and Ethel Konopka?

[Marko]

We will soon see if the Union members do...

Sad days for a district that was once second to none...

[Roscoe_Beedle]

Its your own Union that damaged the administration via pay increases in light of declining revenues. I also read that more administrative personnel may be laid off. That's a good and necessary step. This entire education administartion is too top heavy and loaded with lard. Time to make cuts that are meaningful.

And get over yourself already. 12 teachers are laid off and you guys have been bellowing like stuck pigs. Take a look at all the layoffs in the private sector since 2001, thousands of jobs. What is it about teachers that they can never be laid off even for incompetence?

[Marko]

Its your own Union that damaged the administration via pay increases in light of declining revenues. I also read that more administrative personnel may be laid off. That's a good and necessary step. This entire education administartion is too top heavy and loaded with lard. Time to make cuts that are meaningful.

And get over yourself already. 12 teachers are laid off and you guys have been bellowing like stuck pigs. Take a look at all the layoffs in the private sector since 2001, thousands of jobs. What is it about teachers that they can never be laid off even for incompetence?

"You guys" ?

I am not a teacher in the SMUHSD. A graduate of the district and very interested observer, however.

It's as if you are arguing at me (or your misunderstanding of who/what I am) rather than the point...very nice.

You are clearly prejudiced, however...thanks ever so much for your helpful views, imagine reading them as you reveal your biases and make people disregard what you are espousing before they even get to the "point"

At any rate RB, have any more trenchant observations?

[Roscoe_Beedle]

I took you for a member of the teacher union. If you are not I apologize for the wrong characterization.

But my comments otherwise stand. It is not "prejudice" to take a counter position on school funding. People may disagree with you, this does not make them prejudiced. Maybe these same people can look at you as "prejudiced"? How stupid.

[Marko]

You prejudged me (RB, that's prejudice. Dictionary.com may be an idea when you try and debate words in the future, as your current grasp of language seems somewhat imprecise) as part of the union, and thus "you guys" and all that jazz came into your answer...that's what I was referring to.

[Roscoe_Beedle]

Well, gee whiz Marco, you have such sensitive sensibilities. You have been prejudiced! My, my, my. Now you will have to somehow go through life with this stain on your character. Another victim. Crying towels anyone?

Read on, dear offended one, I said I was mistaken to take you as a member of the teacher's union. I apologized for that slight. My statements remain intact as far as the rest of my written words.

[Marko]

Are you really this ineducable or is this an act, Roscoe?

I'll not start lobbing insults (victim? crying towel?) as you choose to do, and instead just hope that your obvious anger and need for drama/enemy, fragile emotions when chided, and lower-level cognitive abilities don't ever have more impact on my life than just leading to me typing this note in wonderment.

Rock on, Roscoe