A Chicago dad exploded at a local school board meeting over the hypocrisy of keeping schools closed. Saying what many have felt in recent weeks, his words have instantly gone viral, including being featured on Blaze TV.
His comments note, “You should all be fired from your day jobs, because if your employers knew that you were more inefficient than the DMV you would be replaced in a heartbeat. I literally just finished a conference call because I’m having to multi-task to be here.”
He continued, “You’re a bunch of cowards, hiding behind our children as an excuse for keeping schools closed. You think you’re some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you’re making, when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from this virus.
“The garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash risk their lives every day more than anyone in this school system.”
He challenged the school board to figure it out or to leave and let someone else do their job. He’s right! Our children need their education. Teachers cannot hide from the challenge, but are desperately needed to do their part to help our nation during this difficult time.
The School Board and all Public Teachers work for the TAY PAYER. The teachers, school board & Public education system in this country are a Disgrace to education & an embarrassment to The USA, the world & themselves.
The average High School Senior in Public school, graduates with a 6th grade reading proficiency. (national statistic)
This is a FAILURE to the students & Society. IN the real world this would NOT be tolerated & there would be MASS firings, which should be the case. The Public School Teachers & School Boards are an insult to the word EDUCATION.
The unions are the fault. They are encouraging and pushing this situation.
You are right. The teachers’ union has way to much power in how public schools are run. The unions also protect the most incompetent teachers, allowing them to continue in their jobs whatever their abilities. The last time we tested teachers in the Detroit public school system, the teachers had a eighth grade reading level. How can they teach if the teachers can’t read????
tells something about the teachers college courses, because the teachers were public school grads themselves. Some few decades ago, colleges and universities lowered their requirements for entrance. The SAT was adjusted accordingly. We fought them, bitterly, and were insulted,demonized,boycotted. We were in contact w/parent groups nation wide. We held seminars,I met w/our State Head of Dept. of Education.I had a fruitless talk w/our State Atty. General, & even had dinner w/our then Governor. Our final solution was to pull our kids out of “public” school & get them into private school. We registered over 100 new voters,we encouraged some 40 families to get their kids out. I spent a year in University library,reading curriculum’s. This all happened in the 90`s. Get your ducks in line,educate yourself before discussing anything w/teachers.
DITTO!! The Teachers’ Unions are also at fault and are pushing this travesty!
Gunny- You are correct. High school graduation means an individual showed up most of the time for social indoctrination. They learn very little else. Had I not taught my three sons at home, after school, they would be ignorant. With their social upbringing, it is difficult to tell. Public schools dumbed them down to the current norm.
They were voted in so why can’t they be voted out? If the citizens want the schools open, I say open the schools.
They’re acting like a Supreme Court, and they didn’t answer the gentleman’s question.
BUT……they made sure a deputy lead him out. He’s got a right to raise his voice especially when nobody is listening.
Totally agree ! And just love that man who stood up for his kids and all of the kids! He’s great!!! Too bad he didn’t have a whole lot of parents there to back him up. At least his rant has gone viral.
More true words have never been spoken! It’s the democratic way of dumbing down America, and it is in now way the fault of our children! Proper education of our children should be paramount for our nation, and the dimwits in government service are far too self serving, greedy, and stupid to get it done!
They deserve no more than to be fired and replaced, not with more lawyers and millionaires, but with “one term” educated AMERICAN adults who truly love this country and wish to move it forward!
I think you get to decide whether or not your work environment is dangerous…
A lot of work environments are dangerous, but they still need to function. Where would we be if the police refused to work because their very lives are at risk every day? What if the military refused to be present in dangerous countries that threaten our freedom? So you might get a virus that is proven to be less lethal than the common flu. If you refuse to work because you might get sick this country comes to a halt. You could get sick going to the grocery store. Teachers have become lazy, worthless and entitled. This coming from someone who taught school for 34 years.
Margaret, you are absolutely correct, most teachers today aren’t teachers because they want to serve, but because of the pay, benefits and job security especially in union states. In almost 32 years of active duty service in the Army, much of it spent in Special Operations Aviation, as well as 7 years in 7th Special Forces Group as a SF engineer, the hazards were far greater than most teachers would ever see on their worst day, and this doesn’t even include combat.
Considering that the average teacher makes more than a 1st lieutenant and below in the Armed Forces, working far less hours and in definitely in a much safer environment, the biggest disparity though is in the success of the work they preform. I find it utterly disgusting that a majority of teachers and their unions continually whine about deserving more pay and better benefits, yet this nation’s education system has gone from #1 at the end of the 70’s to below #10 among industrialized nations, some measures are closer to #15. If the military, or any business preformed at this same level, we might be speaking Chinese, and you know the business would be bankrupt.
I have a close friend that has a niece who’s a high school math teacher in Fulton County, Georgia, she asked me if I could help her lay sod in the back yard of her new house, of course, I said yes. Her niece called me on a Tuesday morning around 9AM to let me know that her sod had arrived, I had a few errands to run and didn’t get there until about 10:30AM. The niece showed me her back yard and her plans, and then asked me if I wanted a glass of wine, I passed while she poured her a 2nd glass. She said she needed to go get her boots to work, went back inside, and came back about 15 minutes later smelling of pot, it was obvious she was stoned!
I personally don’t care if adults smoke pot, that’s their choice, and it didn’t bother me all that much that she decided to drink wine during the middle of the day, especially if she was off for the day. However, she wasn’t off, like all the rest of the teachers in Fulton County school system, she was supposed to be working teaching her students from home, not getting plastered and stoned! By the way, I told my friend that something came up and that I wasn’t going to be able to help her niece any further.
Don’t get me wrong, I know there are some excellent, hardworking teachers out there who still care about teaching our youth, unfortunately, they’ve become the exception and not the rule. I’m glad my kids are grown and finished college, it erks me to no end how bad our education system has become. If I still had children in school, especially primary schools, I would be raising hell with my board of education if teachers refused to go back to teaching them in the classroom.
If teachers want to stay at home and pretend to be doing the jobs we’re all paying them for, fine, then let’s pay them for the actual time they spend doing their jobs, not for laying sod while getting hammered and stoned. Taxpayers should demand that either they return to the classroom or have their pay cut no less than 50%, actually, 25% seems grossly generous, but I’d be willing to bet a 50% pay-cut would get their sorry asses back to work.
So well said-I applaud your post-Carole Mann
Then I guess you don’t become a teacher. Because you are exposed to many things. As a teacher myself before retirement I had built up a strong immunity to commom things that were carried into schools. I contracted ocular cellulitis which I went to the doctor for. But you learn to wash sanatize things each day come home take a shower and change clothes. It is a public job and your exposure is far greater than the person in the cubical. But you choose to do it or not. I so agree with this parent. This is how the union works. Also understand that the union is driving this nit the teachers.
This action is actually a notice to all parents…either send your kids to private schools through the voucher system, or home school them yourselves. Public schools have been inadequate for years.
Be proud to know him.
I am a teacher and a member of the NEA and I agree totally with this parent. Those teachers are Cowards and need their teaching certification taken away. An as for the NEA what a bunch of as holes. They have to much power and don’t do a damn thing for students.
As a spouse of a teacher with the things I hear her talk about is alarming. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, NOT TEACHING CURSIVE, CONNOT TEACH AMERICAN HISTORY (the good and bad) MUCH LESS AS IN A RURAL AREA THAT I LIVE IN MOST CHILDREN DONT HAVE THE TOOKS TO EVEN ONLINE. They are and have been setting up our American way of life up for failure. Just look at today’s youth and there you owe me attitudes.
Totally agree with this justifiably angry father. I pulled my kids out of public school because of things like this. And 3 of my 4 children home schooled their kids because of these kinds of problems. I sent mine to private school. But today I would home school. It can be done. There is a huge support system in place for parents who choose this route. And most kids prosper.
My daughters were home-schooled beginning in 1989/1990….most adults told us we were abusing our daughters’ chances.The local group if 10 young folks,beginning age 6,ALL received college degrees from recognized universities.My daughters jumpstarted from 10th grade final exam to admission in jr.college thru a short quiz.now 1 holds masters’ degree in history and 1 is equine veterinarion….GO FIGURE…just attempt to do what is best for your personal situation..fo NOT trust it to the public school disaster.
100% Correct. Kids need a social environment mostly pre K, we are raising kids without any social skills, as for the teachers and the Unions how does it feel to collect a pay check while doing very little? In the mean time healthcare people give their lives every day to keep us safe?
He is 1000% correct!!! The democommienazis obviously are in charge in the schools…people know who you vote on to these boards!
Not all teachers feel this way. We have a lady at our church, who is a teacher. She is very adament about wanting all students back in school. She told me that a lot of the student/teacher interaction is missed on line. She does teach at a private school. And she is excellent.
These teachers are as lazy AF. They’re GETTING PAID NOT TO WORK. Some of them are not even doing remote learning; pretending they DON’T KNOW HOW. How the devil can they teach our kids who live in a world immersed in technology, when THEY CAN’T EVEN USE THE TECHNOLOGY THEMSELVES.
The UNIONS ALWAYS PROTECT UNPRODUCTIVE WORKERS – & believe me, as a retired teacher & nurse both, you had best not cross a teacher’s union. They protected a pedophile teacher at the children’s expense in one school. I had to help the parents to demand their child be transferred to the other teacher in her grade – a highly dedicated, brilliant educator who cared deeply for every child in her class – & was ALWAYS IN TROUBLE WITH THE UNION FOR WORKING TOO HARD & MAKING THE OTHER TEACHERS LOOK BAD.
I was on the receiving end of the same attitude the one time I worked in a union hospital, closed shop.
My step brothers were attacked, as were their drivers (independent drivers who didn’t want a union & felt they were getting a good deal at my stepbrothers’ hands). They lost nearly everything. During that time, they claimed my younger step brother committed suicide. I DON’T BELIEVE THEM. I think it was union violence, which is still rampant. Another hospital where I worked, nursing assistants, techs, unit secretaries, etc., were unionized but nurses were not. I was too ill to work at the bedside. I taught technology & nursing & general topics like JCAHO, HIPAA, etc. The union called a 48 hour strike, promising to stay out of the parking garages & patient care areas, staying ony in areas accessible by the public. Well, I couldn’t go to my car to get something I’d forgotten without being illegally followed by one of them. I was walking with 2 canes, but I was not going to run or beg. When we got within a dozen cars of where I was parked, I pulled out my mobile phone & told him if he didn’t leave this area, which was off limits to the union, I would call the city police and security both…and told him that canes could be weapons, too, & I wasn’t going to go down without leaving my mark on him if he attempted to attack me. He backed down, slowly, so I dialed hospital security, told them about him, described him, told them what had happened, & they sent up a patrol car to watch over me while I got what I came for, & even drove me the short distance back & saw me through the locked door to our building. Then they evicted him from the premises & told the union since they couldn’t keep up their end of the bargain even one day, they would forfeit any right to the bargaining table & contract changes if one more thing like that occurred.
I will guarantee you that the unions are behind the lazy teachers using the plandemic as an excuse to get paid yet do no work.
For decades now, the group behind the National Teachers’ Exams have been pushing for their test to be at least a part of getting a teaching certificate & they have tried to make the certificates expire periodically & force CEUs & passing of a competency test a part of ensuring teacher competence. I was always proud of my score: 1468 our of 1600 possible. I didn’t have to take it but I did because I agreed with the idea that like nurses, teachers should also have to have CEUs, there should be no tenure any more or no unions – pick one or the other. Tenure is already a huge safety net that is necessary to protect teachers from being fired if their politics differ from those of the superintendant, principal, or board under which they work. They don’t need a union if they have that. No RN has tenure in their job, or in their interviews either. I was passed over for one job because I am moderate, centrist, & thus was not left wing enough for the person interviewing me. I viewed that as a gift – the environment would have been hellish. Teachers used to be fired if the party in charge changed unless they were tenured. Well, now most of them are leftists, some of them haven’t read a professional journal since they got their permanent teaching certificate, or maybe after they got a master’s degree. Innovation to them is anathema, & tech is innovative.
I left teaching for a lot of reasons. The way too many teachers bully kids from less than perfect homes, as if the child was responsible when the child has no control over what the adults in their lives do at home. The gossip. The lack of innovation. The sneering at anyone caught reading a professional journal as a “suck up.” Those things are OK for a RN but not for a teacher.
No wonder they fight homeschools, REAL online schools, & charter schools, all of which do a far superior job of educating children than the current Marxist brainwashing by teachers who don’t even want to be there all too often. I homeschooled.
30 yrs ago, I went to the local school and asked for a list or scattergram of the salaries they were paying the teachers. At least at that time, they had to give it to you. One thing it showed me was they have a lot of side benefits, paid for, that they can pretend it is not part of their wages, also covering them from being taxed. But, when you add them all in, they were getting paid a great deal more then the average taxpayer, in our community. Most were making over 80 grand a year. Many, over 100 grand. And, I figured out about how many hours they work per year. It is about 1000, vs the average worker that puts in 2040. So, if they were making $80,000. per yr., they were making $80 per hr. The average, in this community, then, was maybe about $25. per hr. I hope people can still go to their local school and ask for that info. It doesn’t give names, just the number facts. Then, you have a great platform to run for the school board. Or a great reason why those teachers don’t need yet another raise.
i thought this guy was from Loudon county
VA?
I know so many kids that went to college with my kids and started out going to be a doctor, lawyer, dentist etc and then ended up settling for being a school teacher. Says a lot about the quality of people we have teaching our children. Also the people on these boards should all be thrown off. As this loser woman was calling for a deputy to remove this man it just screamed how unqualified she is, get her replaced asap.