Florida goes full Trump in targeting social media companies

SGT (Join to see) Hey Dave... long time no speak. There is good & bad in both Unions & Corporate Management. Bottom line... you have to chose the lesser of both evils. Having been union... turned company... & seeing how they screwed over long time dedicated workers in order to save some of their hunting & fishing buddies... I ended up going back Union. No... I didn't just join the Union again. We organized our Company Lab by getting 15 out of the 17 to sign Union Cards. We took our "JOBS" into the Union effective July 5th 1976. First & only time any one Dept. to do this. If it weren't for Unions do you think the "Worker"... labor or professional... would be making what they make along with the benefits. The "trickle down" theory is nothing but BULLSHIT rolling down the hill!

CSM Charles Hayden - Thanks Chuck!

CSM Charles Hayden - I feel the stress my friend. I really love teaching, but the bureaucracy is ridiculous. The government wants to put the onus for student learning almost solely on the teacher. Home life, parenting, and culture never enter the picture. I could improve student learning by getting rid of cell phones in school.

Cell phones were banned in school by state law about twenty years ago. So a few students and parents did a presentation in front of the Florida legislature espousing all the benefits of cellphone technology in the classroom. What was the result? I have students who are more focused on gaming, YouTube videos, and listening to music. The disrespect shown when they are asked to turn it off is depressing. I need my phone is the pushback I get. Since when is a phone a necessity? I blame the parents. I have seen toddlers sitting in grocery carts playing on a thousand dollar iPhone. Students always tell me they need their cellphone on in case their parents need to get in touch with them. I tell them have your parents call the school. The trophy generation has to have immediate contact with their children. I have students who have expensive iPhones without ever having to work for them. Again, the trophy generation rewards their children without their children earning anything.

I have seen the changes in the last 15-20 years. No Child Left Behind was the beginning of the problem. We started focusing on the lowest quartile almost to the exclusion of the others. School grades almost entirely rewarded gains in the lowest group. I had a good friend who passed away a while ago who played football at FSU and coached Wes Chandler in high school. He made a great statement about this. He said it was like focusing on playing the third and fourth stringers in practice all week, and then starting the the first team on Friday nights. Nobody was benefiting by that kind of philosophy.

Sorry for the rant.

SGT (Join to see) Hearing your rant makes me glad to be 32 years retired from supervising mechanical maintenance with the City of Los Angeles. I did not have a pager and my weekend hideaway in Palm Springs did not have a telephone!

SFC Randy Hellenbrand That's All It is Fascist Entertainment.