Education Revolt in Watts, by Drew Carey and Reason.tv

[Berelore]

looking forward to the follow up and results.

[Jebusrulez]

The second I see a teacher union care about the kids first is the day pigs fly.

[kaneose]

Unions are broken.

[Beanz920]

Get rid of these unionized teachers, its just disgraceful.

[kumasan81]

there is nothing more fucked up and crooked than a teacher's union!

[cloudberry121]

What a shame. Frank Wells seems like he would have done a great job!

The teacher's unions have become a group of sloppy and lazy clowns. They don't even realize how they became an embarrassment.

[DoubleJMG]

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

If you can't read this, thank a teacher's union.

[Visfen]

Unions suck, they produce nothing of value.

[curly129]

man fuck wat every person says bad things bout locke high skoo!! fuck u guys!

i went there 4 all 4 yrs and i didnt see 1 problem. sure it had gangs but wat fucking skoo didnt?! locke was a good skoo. it helped me pretty well. if dat skoo didnt help u out was maybe cuz u didnt want 2! just to let u kno i got accepted in2 all the unversities n colleges i applied to. n i got a homie who got accepted in2 MIT!! one of the hardest skoos 2 get in! now wat fuckers! say all ur bullshit dat it didnt help

[pipenerf]

How can you get accepted into MIT when you can't even spell?

[Monty1994]

I think he meant Mississippi Intsitute of Tech-9s.

Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty I'm Free at Last.

I find it funny the people supposedly responsible for teaching our children are the very ones keeping them stupid. Teachers unions need to be broken, Vouchers, Vouchers, Vouchers.

Let parents take their kids to other schools if they feel the current one is bad. And don't shed a tear for the school everyone leaves, no one cries when a poorly run company goes under.

[curly129]

lol and no its that one ur saying. im talking bout the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[curly129]

i didnt say i got accepted there! i said my homie got accepted at MIT! learn to read b4 u say something

[pipenerf]

Well, I take it for granted that your "homie" can't be any more comprehensive than you seem to be.

[curly129]

man dat nigga is smart ass hell.

every skoo is da same to me. i got accepted in2 every UC i applied.

[Monty1994]

did this friend have a genius friend get cremated and then roll him into a joint and smoke him. Thereby allowing his dead genius friends ghost to help him pass the SATs and get into MIT.

If so i think you are confusing your friend for the movie How High with Redman and Methodman.

[jmorenz]

You do realize that those schools have a quota to make that isn't necessarily based off a parsons grades.

Oh, and you would make a better case for yourself and you school if you didn't talk like flavor flav!

[curly129]

yea i kno dat,,,

n wat difference does it make if i talk the way i talk. if i talk like this it gives no fucking difference if my skoo its gonna look better or worse. i chose to talk like this out of my own good

[jmorenz]

Thats fine and i respect you desire to do so. I am just saying that most people will see you talking like that and they will judge you based on that alone.

[curly129]

yea dats true. i kno wat u trying to say

[desktopvfr]

This is an example of public school education.....Its about money not kids. Public school in U.S sucks.

[grraadd]

These are excepts from:

ABC 20-20 - John Stossel - Stupid In America - How We Cheat Our Children

Great TV program by the way.

[putittogether]

Th union fat ass - "We lose a lot of rights as teachers" as if you have some special rights that the kids or parents don't have.

God I hate public education.

[NSResponder]

That union rep is a fucking parasite.

-jcr

[sclops]

The US school model is so different from the UKs. Thoroughly good video.

[cjacez]

The all time Principal that ever graced Locke's campus was Dr. Garrett. She is what a principal should be. Who actually knew the school song before she came?....NOBODY. The teachers taught when she was there. Every sport team Locke had went to the playoffs. Locke had students to go into pro drafts when she was there. I was excepted into 5 out of the 6 universities I applied to. When Dr. G got to Locke I approached her with my problem of no english teacher. 1 week later I had a damn good 1.

[EdWatts]

"...excepted..." and "...english[sic]..." give me some reason to stop and think; even "1" is not appropriate in this context. School song? Nice sentiment, but, really, now... It is high time for America to wake up and fix the troubles which are dragging her down.

I was ACCEPTED at all of the universities to which I applied; indeed, several gave me a "full-ride" academic scholarship. I am old now, but I fear for the America which my generation leaves for my children. God save us.

[Whoo69]

That damn teachers union is so selfish! They didn't give a shit about the kids at all. They just wanted to hamper progress because they didn't get their way.

[Flygirljade]

Also I made it to a University comming from Locke...

When Dr. Wells came many students went to Universities...

[ricemilk2]

.....evidently, you didn't learn to spell....

[Flygirljade]

How about your stupid... What college do you go to... Gosh Im not turning it in to my College English Class

[willywonka091]

you're*

[Flygirljade]

YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!! Thats my mommy and my sister...The Reyes Family Rocks

I ♥ Dr. Wells he was the principal my last 2 years in high. He turned Locke around and made it a much better school...

[LittleGuelzy]

Many of the teachers voted FOR green dot. Don't over generalize. Get rid of the bad ones and support the good ones. There are great teachers in hiding waiting for a Dr. Wells to come along.

[InfamousPuma]

The bottom line is that no matter what education system you use the only important factor is the students. Sure the better the teachers are taken care of the better their performance will be, but when something is not working its not Fn workn. The U.S. is starting to really fall behind when it comes to education. And bottom line we need to stop pointing fingers at people and start pointing fingers at systems.

[MetaMorphy]

The union leader had nothing substantive to say against Green Dot. They were all childish insults.

[dmr0binson]

People have been trying, without success, to reform public education since "Why Johnny Can't Read" was published in the 1950's. Its not going to happen without breaking the power of the teacher's unions.

[MetaMorphy]

Amen, you are absolutely right. The way Wells was treated is absurd. Using the police officers was degrading.

[outragedpalmer]

Vote Ron Paul....teachers need freedom, accountability, and a good place teach. Students need love, understanding, and a good place to teach.

Peace to the freedom lovers.