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eality and step in when needed no matter how sound the philosophy is there s no way any kid should be allowed to spew filth and threats at adults and other kids without ending up at a superintendent s hearing in city hall if i m reading this all wrong and we re actually in the early stages of a transformational new approach to discipline one where consequences are so subtly crafted and ingeniously applied to the point that they don t even appear to exist then i ll admit i m reaching and go about my business sadly though while talking to a friend in nyc the other day i hear this isn t simply a buffalo trend my friend suggests it s more likely a national trend if this is true then i guess we can stop scratching our heads in wonder when we hear of teacher shortages it s enough that we re under fire from the ed reform and public ed for profit class that we re evaluated on meaningless test scores and micro mismanaged by career climbing bug eyed crazies who ve fled the classroom for power and prestige but stir in an endless stream of obscenity abuse and threats of violence from people we re trying to educate and you ve all but guaranteed your teacher shortage if anyone thinks things discipline wise are swell in buffalo please let me know i only wrote this in response to what struck me as a pervasive and systemic refusal to address student misbehavior in any fashion that didn t involve blaming teachers for causing it posted by unknown at 10 37 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 18 2017 later carl after all the times i had to blog about this guy i guess it s only fair to have the last word on his pointless and failed tenure as a member of the buffalo board of ed i searched his name in the upper right corner of this very blog and the results were a stumble down memory alley i d just as soon forget carl trying to ram his handpicked superintendents into place and failing carl s fake black friend herman on facebook sounding suspiciously like uncle ruckus of boondocks fame carl cursing out a reporter and carl s tropically shirted goon looking like a stray cast member of a community theatre production of south pacific as he shoulders said reporter out of the way carl s friend sandy beach lisping about austin harrig implying that paladino s 18 year old opponent in the race for the park district seat had some kind of masculinity issues very classy stuff that a fat old man in his 60 s using his right wing radio mic to ridicule and belittle a teen ager who dared to run for office against his millionaire developer pal who can forget this gem from the carl email dump unleashed by wnymedia net during the ill fated carl for gubner run more class what s funnier than starving people in a developing country fleeing for their lives from a relief plane bringing them food and medicine i could go on seriously i could for pages but really folks who wants to sift through a sewer of such hateful mean spirited garbage i can t help but think of al capone ending up on the rock because elliot ness went through his taxes not for bootlegging or bomb throwing or roughing people up and or deep sixing them but for freaking tax evasion before anyone calls the lake erie italian club to report me for besmirching a fellow paisan let me say ethnicity here is merely coincidental while the obvious ways to get capone seemed to end up stifled by threats or bribes or a curious lack of evidence in every case the feds put their thinking caps on and said forget all that they went for something just as illegal yet not quite as sexy instead they pinched him for not paying the tax man while the protests that blew up board meeting after board meeting centered around the outrageously hateful and racist remarks published in artvoice everyone kind of knew the first amendment would protect paladino even as a sitting board member from removal so they got him for violating the rules of executive session and sharing confidential details with people who had no business hearing them a little like bringing in elliot ness to rifle through the books and find the smoking tax return that would bring about the check mate and the end game of carl s disastrous participation in public life in spite of the enron like decline of trump s brand and the trickle down effect it s likely to produce in trump apologists like carl paladino we ve all heard that he s ruminating about yet another run at the governor s office being removed from one elected office could actually work to paladino s advantage in running for a higher office when you consider the angry white demographic whose heartfelt sense of manifest grievance he courts with his talk of coons in the basement and his baseball bat i m not here to say he s your next governor as much as i m saying we best not snooze on this one if you ever needed an example of addition by subtraction look no further than carl paladino s removal from the buffalo board of ed i m not shedding any tears about the democratic process being sideswiped by mary ellen elia either i ve seen this sentiment expressed in a few places elsewhere the guy screwed up was evaluated by his superior and found to be unfit to complete his elected term teachers these days get terminated all the time in the current climate of so called ed reform why should he get special treatment because he s carl and for years buffalo has excused him with oh that s just carl being carl in the great big world it appears that excuse holds no water maybe for once carl being carl actually had some consequences enjoy the victory buffalo it s been a long time coming posted by unknown at 3 32 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 20 2017 anybody betting on this hell of a time to come outta retirement but i think this issue bears some scrutiny while i am glad larry got a ticket to take in the big paladino hearing i am less than optimistic about the outcome it s been said elsewhere that state ed commissioners are slow to pull the plug on board members over local disputes the dynamics of this case are going to diminish those odds from slim to somewhere around infinitesimal not because paladino has the right to spew any kind of bigoted hateful bile he wants though some will say he has exactly that right but because mary ellen elia and carl paladino play for the same team in the larger scheme of things remember before elia took her brown parachute from hillsborough school district in florida and leaped into the loving arms of meryl tisch she d been dancing with bill gates s millions and toeing the ed reform line with lots of testing and lots of talk about 5 of the teaching force being fired on gates s say so she is no friend of public education and no friend of teachers in case anyone is suffering from a case of mid june brain flatulence let me remind you she shares quite a bit of common ground with carl and lars quinn and their unflappable drink fetcher patti pierce like a lot of my fellows i honestly believe removing paladino from the board would be an addition by subtraction but if i were somehow forced to lay money on it i d have to bet on carl as local lawyer to the stars and the vexed who are able to pay paul cambria said today there are many options available to elia between doing nothing and giving paladino the hook when someone of elia s ilk is forced into a corner as she has been in this situation you can rest assured she s going to choose the path of least resistance i am thinking she s going to do the commissioner s version of the principal putting a letter in his file whatever form the censure takes you can be sure it will be toothless and pointless but somehow will allow her and paladino s detractors to save face she can say his behavior didn t meet the threshold for removal but it did warrant a strongly worded letter paladino can say see i toldjas and everyone else will say there now he doesn t look so smug three or four more of those letter and he ll be out on his ass in the wacky world the ed reform class has made of public education it s fair to assume expectations on teachers will be unreasonably high while those on reform friendly administrators and foot soldiers like elia will be virtually non existent as christopher hitchens an avowed atheist said of his impending death from esophageal cancer i still don t believe but i do like surprises surprise us all mary ellen posted by unknown at 10 50 pm 41 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 7 2017 it s the stupid stupid a facebook friend posted a pic of jeff sessions on or about the day we learned sessions used some alternative truths in his confirmation questioning remember the part where he forgot to tell everyone he was just kidding when he insisted he hadn t met with any russians during the campaign in the comments below i think i called sessions a redneck pile of shit said fb friend saw me my remark and raised me with his own equally blunt assessment of the guy who was too racist to be a judge in the 80 s but just racist enough to be attorney general in the current clowncar known as the presidential cabinet truth be told i ve never even met the friend in question we share a fondness for left leaning policies and their practitioners food key west and mountain bikes among other things i also have reason to believe he is a retired or possibly still working teacher and buffalonian but you know how these things go on social media friends of friends are close enough so you kind of roll together out of the clear blue or maybe i should say the red sky comes eugenia t greatagain who must be a friend of my friend as i know nothing of her she names us both and points out that not all of us are rednecks you know we just want what s best for our country and you both need to be careful you re coming pretty close to being racist my usual response to an unknown collective us is you got a mouse in your pocket but in this case i suggested she might want to recede to her safe space before she melts in the face of all this meanness she then shoots back that i must have anti social behaviors a word she s doubtless gleaned from countless hours of staring slackjawed at dr phil and oprah usually i opt for the block option at this point as i don t know this person nor do i care to and i guess it s considered bad form to flay unknown friends of friends on their walls instead i offered this summary of the situation i posted a comment about a politician which you internalized and took to be about you then you proceeded to tell me i was flirting with racism i saw later that she d responded again but instead of reading it i went to wally cox for the block if you re old you get that i guess the point is friends there s a lot of stupid out there the fact that i am calling a southern politician with a questionable at best history of race relations a redneck strikes me as an in house remark i am white he is white i cracked him for being the kind of white guy that makes being a white guy a shitty thing a white lady jumps into the fray after deciding i was talking about her when i called jeff sessions a redneck telling me i m flirting with racism a white guy cracking another white guy being told by a white woman that he s as good as racist makes about as much sense as kelly ann conway on her best day which isn t saying much of course and just off the top of my head i have to ask what exactly does a fellow middle class white person see in legislation that encourages mining companies to unload all manner of toxins into waterways near mines that would approximate what s best for our country likewise if we stick to the water theme how does this fine middle class white lady consider removing funding that goes toward protecting the great lakes as anything close to what s best for our country i m sure she s ok with spending billions we don t have on a wall we don t need while kids in flint are guzzling lead in their tap water too but i have to ask at what point is this what s best for our country those of us who waited in the rain for hours to hear bernie sanders speak saw how he was marginalized by the machinations of dnc insiders we were told to give hillary our vote and giver her a chance and when that didn t work we watched as a crude ignorant bully and bigot was sworn in a 45 give him a chance we were told again since he s been president 45 has played golf in florida what every weekend he s continued to shoot his mouth off on twitter and elsewhere and shows no signs of any saul like conversion on the roads to damascus or mara lago the only conclusion i can reach as a resident of this planet for 55 years now and a public school teacher for 29 of them is that we re being asked to keep giving stupid a chance stupid friends is not working it hasn t worked it isn t working and it won t work we need to say no to stupid a dozen times a day if that s what it takes just say no to stupid posted by unknown at 11 00 am 955 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 23 2017 secretary of education a fine tradition of dunces portrait of addition by subtraction in arne duncan the obama administration had a useful idiot who d drive the corporate reform agenda and keep the potus sharp on the basketball court apparently arne had played semi pro off broadway basketball in the tenerife intramural leagues at some point but settled for handing out test packets to america with the help of his bachelor s degree in sociology arne for the record had never spent a minute teaching in a classroom anywhere in november of 2013 arne put his semi pro sized chuck taylor in his mouth and pissed off the white suburban mom population suggesting that her kid wasn t as smart as she thinks he is what s more is he was touting common core in the process here s arne saying pushback against ccss is coming from white suburban moms who all of a sudden their child isn t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn t quite as good as they thought they were his actual quote is dizzying in its arrogance and nastiness i wonder if he thought because he was addressing state school superintendents that nobody would know he said it or was he really so clueless and bereft of judgment that he didn t think it was an objectionable remark the world will never know but my guess is yes to both queries up until then arne had made the usual amount of gaffes on smaller levels but the wsm bombshell as it became known on facebook was a waterloo moment in arne s career as the face of american corporate ed reform meanwhile a month before arne s white suburban mom massacre we here in the empire state had our own little arne aka lil john king who was melting down bigly on stage in spackenkill ny king and his handlers dowager empress tisch and regentus flatulentus bob bennett went there to 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