December 21, 2010
$90 MILLION to the Arkansas teachers & their union, the AEA
The payoff is nothing more than money laundering given to a system that is academically bankrupt, failed in every area, and funded for with printed stolen money that will never be paid back.
When the teachers were advised that their vote-buying bribe, i.e. $700 checks for support of Barack Obama and compliments of the AEA, was in the mail, Arkansas teachers rejoiced like piranhas in a bed of red meat.
The $90 million, alleged to be “stimulus†money and destined for Arkansas teachers, was advertised as a bonus. A bonus for what? Running a Keystone Cops operation? The teachers’ greed overcame any resemblance of alleged professionalism.
A bonus you say? More than 90% of the students at U of A at Pine Bluff took a remedial course in 2008, 12% at the U of A, Fayetteville, etc. Factor in if you will the $65 million to teach more than half of Arkansas college students what they SHOULD HAVE LEARNED K-12. The aforementioned failed students should not be allowed to attend a college or university and should consider vocational training.
If the $90 million vote-buying bribe had been properly administrated it would have paid for 2 school years of remedial education and perhaps would have achieved some good.
Nearly 70% of students need remediation in more than one subject.
This screed is too depressing to continue, and only to say that no educator at any level ever mentions the 25-35 million illegal Mexicans & OTM’s that are devastating our society top down, most particularly education K-12.
So how many Arkansas school districts took the bribe…the $700 payoffs.
One Arkansas legislator had the temerity to ask questions regarding the phantom $90 million and immediately a number of teachers reacted by accusing said legislator of “stealing their Christmasâ€.
Joe McCutchen