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Civilization has officially hit rock bottom.

I can't believe this insanity.
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So much for the harebrained scheme of turning Newark schools under mayoral control. It appears to be brazenly illegal.
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I am glad I miss Oprah Winfrey's program as much as I can so I can miss lies being told about public school "tenure," deliberately confused with college and university tenure, to make people think teachers can't be removed. Never mind they can and are very easily, thanks to the manipulation of administrative statutes and the legal system by school districts. Teachers have no legal rights at all.

But what do I know as a teacher who went through these sham hearings in order for the district to protect an incompetent principal? These billionaires know more, including Oprah, who has problems with schools she is running.
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Why in the world would I care to watch Eliot Spitzer after what he did?

And people complain about John Edwards, who can't get hired to pick up dog poop in his neighborhood park.
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In the days before his suicide, Rigoberto Ruelas felt intense pressure from his school administrator, thanks to being publicly trashed by the L.A. Time as an "ineffective" teacher.