BoP,

Look over the piece carefully. There is at least on error (a missing of) that needs to go in...

(Ohio's Oberlin College etc.)

As to the body of the piece, I agree with you 100%. It is very disheartening to see similar corruption here regarded as a matter of course.

Unfortunately, most people have come to believe that cheaters do indeed prosper, at least until they get caught. After that, they become celebrities.

I suppose there are dishonest people in any profession or line of work, but it's interesting how people in certain occupations (like teachers, ministers and doctors for instance) really upset the public when they fall short of moral perfection.

Beyond the grammatical error mentioned above, there's another doozy - it's Ohio's OTTERBEIN College, not OBERLIN.

Biiiig difference.

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Teacher fired? Is is possible? In New York they don't even fire them for fondling students. Unions must be in sad shape in Florida.

Dave

Florida officials are thought to have cheated in a presidential election for some character or another who actually won thereby. That being so, what is a teacher cheating? Or even a bunch. And how could we expect a school board to be unanimous about cheating? It may not be important to them.

I went to school in Florida and teaching wasn't considered very important, so why should honesty matter much? Winning the weekly football game is, however, a whole different story. A coach who loses would face unanimous dismissal.

No question that Florida is one of our more corrupt states in almost every way.

lorida officials are thought to have cheated in a presidential election for some character or another who actually won thereby.

You must not have been following the news. That effort failed and Bush won anyway.

Dave

"Unions must be in sad shape in Florida."

Florida barely has unions...

Yeah, but Texas is pretty hard on unions in general too, but our teachers unions are still insanely powerful, locking the educational system into a cycle of endless incompetence and inefficiency.

Dave

Given the NEA's track record One would have thought that they'd come flying in on their brooms from other states to save these teachers from the termination of thier position they so greatly deserved.

Liberals like to throw the word facism around without a second thought but if there's any group in the United States that springs to mind when the word facism is mentioned it is the NEA and the teacher's unions.

You hit the nail on the head in your coment about incompetencey and inefficiency Nalle. The NEA and the teacher's unions are doing more of a diservice to our young children than anyone else in this nation. When I have children you can bet your ass they'll be attending Catholic schools.

My brother was one of the teachers fired. He did not knownly do anything wrong. The school district referred him to the school and even gave him the number so he can get certified. You haven't heard the rest of it.

The offenses of these teachers are relatively minor. They deserved a slap on the wrist. But it's typical of what's wrong with the system that when they fondle children they don't get fired, but if they transgress a trivial bureaucratic rule they get the boot.

Dave