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My “How Long Must a Pregnant Teacher Stand” Post Provoked the School’s Admin

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Timing a pregnant teacher to see if she sits? Outrageous! This is blatant discrimination meant to portray her as less effective at her job due to her biology. Be sure to click on the link for the pregnant teacher in the first paragraph — it tells the story. It’s just smoke and mirrors, anyway, the administration is making busy work to appear that they are accomplishing something…or perhaps it is to keep teachers so busy and distracted that they actually become ineffective??

deutsch29's avatardeutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

On January 2, 2015, I published a post entitled, How Long Must a Pregnant Teacher Stand in Order to Be Rated Effective? The post focuses on a Lake Charles, Louisiana, teacher’s experiences with micro-managed expectations foisted upon faculty at his/her school. Whereas the teacher identified to me both him-/herself and the school at which he/she teaches, I chose to publish the post with both teacher and school as anonymous.

The post itself has had over 4,800 views, with 4,000 of those views occurring on January 2 and 3, 2015. After about a week, the post primarily went quiet.

So, on January 23, 2015, I was surprised to receive a couple of strong, anonymous comments declaring the “utter incorrectness” about “our” school. Mind you, I had not identified the school, only the city. As it stands, there are 22 elementary schools, 6 middle schools, and 5 high schools with Lake…

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Indiana: Key Legislator Forms Education Lobbying Firm

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Really, folks, these people do not represent Hoosiers. Haha, yeah, I guess technically, they DO represent Hoosiers, but not our ideals. Who elected these ethically questionable yahoos?

dianeravitch's avatarDiane Ravitch's blog

The chair of the Indiana House Education Committee has started an education lobbying business. Presumably, he will be paid to lobby himself and his colleagues. This is remarkable, to say the least.

A veteran lawmaker who oversees education in the Indiana House of Representatives has formed a lobbying company to represent education clients, raising potential ethical questions at a time when state lawmakers are considering sweeping new ethics rules.

House Education Chairman Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, formed Berkshire Education Strategies last June, and has continued leading the House education committee since then. Behning said Wednesday that he is looking to represent student testing company Questar in Oklahoma and would like to sign up more clients. But he added that he was doing everything possible to ensure he only represents clients out of state, and not in Indiana.

“We’re trying to put together a contract that’s very clear nothing would be done…

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Another side of destructive oil industry: killing wolves

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Warrior Publications has this up on the Canadian government’s killing of wolves.  They have been demonized throughout the years after the European invasion of both the United States and Canada.  They don’t deserve the reputations that opposing forces have created.  The recent article on deer populations exploding here is partly due to the killing of wolves, their natural predator.  As the wolf packs were demolished, the deer population exploded.  Nature has a balance system, and that balance has been put out of whack.  I mean, it makes no sense to me that we kill wolves because they cause problems, and then start killing the deer because they cause problems by eating farm produce or destroy forest vegetation by their overpopulation…we like to think of ourselves as humane, but in the end, we are even more heartless, as the strychnine, noose, and shooting from a helicopter bear witness.

In addition to this piece, I went to look up Neil Young’s piece on Canada and the video that showed the destruction of the deer habitats — the rich forest land being turned into barren patches of dirt.  The visual is just incredible.  But I also found the following video where Neil Young talks about the passion behind his protests against the destruction by the oil companies:

Here is the video Neil Young that shows the destruction of the earth:

If we’re so smart, why can’t we figure out how to work with nature instead of trying to destroy it?  Nature supports all of life on Earth, and in the end, nature will take care of us pests (humans) once and for all.  Nature can survive without us, but we cannot survive without nature.   We have got to be the stupidest beings on the planet to destroy our own source of life.

Saponification!

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Here’s a really good blog on making your own soap. I’ve always wanted to try it, but I won’t even try it with lye (Murphy’s Law is my mantra). I haven’t been able to find a recipe that doesn’t use lye, but still makes good, solid soap. I haven’t given up the quest, however, and the search goes on…