Chris Christie Tells Teachers Union to Cut the Crap

One of Chris Christie's education reform proposals is to pay teachers of different subjects different salaries because subjects such as gym are not as important as math or science.

When asked by the teacher's union why he hated gym teachers, he told them to
"cut the crap".

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[ScovellsRock]

he is 100% right. I never learned anything of value from a gym teacher that can compare to a teacher of a different subject like science, history or English. The point is, the teacher unions of this country have far too much control and power in the education system. Being a teacher should be competitive like all jobs. If you're awful or lack of talent with it then you move on and let someone that CAN come in.

[bigbob6556]

I wish Chris Christie would just call Obama and rip him a new ass-hole.

[marcellothefellow]

Its not about which class is more important, but the credentials that it takes to teach a certain class. It does not take that much experience or training to become a gym teacher as it does to be a math teacher.

[Connie Ely]

there are parents who will say that a gym teacher and gym activities are more important than biology or any other "learning" classes. just look at the importance that most schools put on sports.. it is as if sports is the only way to earn a "living" anymore. our graduates can't read, write, or do math--try hiring some of them in your businesses!! our teachers need to get back to teaching the basics so our businesses can have a valid work force to choose from...

[Earthwalker40]

Computers, the internet, gaming consoles, smart phones, processed foods and sugar are making kids fat, not lack of phys.ed class.

Some parents are doing a poor job, not all, but it is not the responsibility of a government employee to search lunch boxes and force mandatory exercise on kids.

Dodge ball is great for fat kids. Simply instruct the other kids to "aim for fatties head", and that little rollie-pollie will be down to a healthy weight in no time.

(exorcise, musta been a demon in my head)

[RunDCM]

They actually are killing many "gym classes" in America and it coincides with obesity. If people were more educated about exercise (not exorcise as you state) and nutrition than maybe our country wouldn't be so obese. Parents do a poor job of telling kids what to eat. Kids lunches are packed with sugar. A proper educational class on nutrition and muscle movement (not dodge ball) would give these kids a head start.

[Earthwalker40]

I tend to agree with you, but it will never happen, and this is why: Public school is "government school", and they don't give a rats ass about teaching your child properly, their goal is simply to produce unthinking zombies, and that is much easier to do with 7-8 hours a day, 9 months out of the year. Why do you think they want to eliminate summer break and they are so hard on home schooling? I will let you answer that one for yourself.

[Earthwalker40]

Or we could terminate the phys.ed positions totally(because they are useless), dole out the phys.ed equipment among these poor kids and use the newly freed funds to feed them and get them some decent clothes, and increase the pay of teachers who teach something of value like math or WRITING.

[Earthwalker40]

Oh cool, kinesiology, gym class and nutrition. That must be why we DON'T have so many obese kids in America. And since when has it truly been the school systems responsibility to raise healthy kids? I will answer for you: It never has been and never will be. It is a parents job to assure proper nutrition and exorcise for their kids. If they are not caring or responsible enough to do so, they should not have had kids.

[Earthwalker40]

I'm against "government education" period. Of course our children need education, but this is not what is happening in "government schools", and to our governing body the time is not wasted at all. It is time well spent "indoctrinating" our youth and instilling their own socio-political agenda in them, and at the same time creating a non-thinking, non-questioning "worker" who is happy to be led by the hand as long as they get a crumb now and again. Very scary stuff when you think about it.

[Earthwalker40]

You are right, but the communist scum,err, I mean union people will never agree, it rubs against their true agenda: The advancement of communism and the destruction of free market in America.

If this false "equality" that the unions preach so righteously were to ever be instituted in America then this place would be just another tired shithole, devoid of opportunity or hope for the future, like the former U.S.S.R and anyplace else that has instituted these "PROVEN FAILURE" ideas.

[jcb3393]

I don't know if I agree with "no gym or any kind of arts", because different kids will have different interests.

However, I agree that the school day is too long - it's a remnant (like "summer break") of the farming days when the growing season was not in session, you needed some way to keep the kids occupied.

So, that's all this is - wasted time.