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Substitute teacher pay increases in Sioux Falls

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Theresa Stehly told me today she is fighting for higher (competitive) substitute teacher pay. She is only asking it equals what surrounding communities are paying. Subs get paid $90 a day in the SF school district, she is asking it gets raised to $115. She has been contacting school board members and basically saying she would like to see them raise it on their own without getting the teacher’s union involved. There is approximately 600 subs in the SF School District.

Currently the Harrisburg School District pays $110 a day and Tea, SD pays $115 a day.

The Wacko Teabaggers are at it again, now they are trying to censor presidential PSA’s

When are these fartknockers gonna knock off their BS? It’s not funny and stupid anymore, it is starting to become annoying;

The National Tea Party Coalition called on parents to take their children out of participating classrooms in favor of alternative activities. Member Katrina Pierson said on hallpassonthat.com that Obama’s lesson plans were “uncomfortably partisan.”

What freaking color is the kettle Katrina? You idiots created modern partisanship. It’s not like he is asking students who are in school band to put on a free concert at the expense of taxpayers in a public park for a freak show political demonstration, if that was the case, then I would understand your objections.

Tea Area schools will not show the webcast.

“We are not showing the feed, but encourage parents that want their children to see the message to record it and show it to their children at home. We have had numerous phone calls from parents objecting to their children seeing the speech,” Superintendent Jerry Schutz said by e-mail.

Don’t you mean you have had numerous TEABAGGER parents object to the speech. C’mon, we know this is just a handful of kookbags objecting. What is wrong with the president telling kids to study hard and stay in school? Seriously? Heck even GW and his mom did a PSA about eating supper with your parents. Where was the objection to that?

The Sioux Falls central office received its first handful of phone calls Wednesday afternoon from parents who wondered how the schools would handle Obama’s invitation. The district responded with a recorded phone call and e-mail to parents Thursday and a news conference with Superintendent Pam Homan.

A News Conference! Give me a break. I wonder how much that cost taxpayers? Homan, don’t you have better things to do, like proofread pamphlets that are handed out in your school?

Homan said the district’s protocol is to let individual teachers decide “when and how that might fit into the curriculum.”

Duh. Why censor the PSA from all students when only a select few parents don’t want their kids to see it? It should be handled like sex ed, if you don’t want your kid to have comprehensive sex ed, pull them out of class, but don’t ruin an important educational opportunity for other students because you have a white hood and bible shoved up your ass so far you see and hear cross-eyed.

Harrisburg parent Terri Feilzer said she worries about what Obama might say during the address. She said that if her son’s teacher plans to show the address, she will remove him from class for the rest of the day.

Feilzer said Obama’s message is not worth interrupting class time. “I don’t think that he needs to take the time to talk to kids about staying in school. That’s my job as a parent,” she said.

BAHAHAHAHA! “If the president is going to be telling my son to stay in school, golly, I’ll pull him out of school. That’ll show them sushi eating lefties!”

Barbara Christen, a Sioux Falls parent, said it would be good for kids to hear a pro-education message directly from a president who most kids think is “cool.”

She is disturbed by those who fear Obama will use the opportunity to somehow indoctrinate students to his way of thinking on other issues.

“When I was a kid I remember watching Jimmy Carter talk about the importance of education,” Christen said. “To me, it’s displaced racism. … All we’re doing is promoting hate.”

So the teabaggers get their way once again? F’ing Tards.

When is the SF school district gonna grow a brain?

First, the communications director allows a distasteful ad to print, because she was not doing her job and proofreading the material. Then instead of Homan firing her or scolding her for the action, she defends her. Then the school board listens to a bunch of lawyers instead of parents and bans outside materials. Now they take advantage of the stupid ban and are selling parents names.

SIOUX FALLS — The Sioux Falls School District is likely to review its practice of selling student information to outside groups, after it has come under fire from some parents who worry about privacy issues.

Kevin Kunkel, who leads a group called the Parents Action Committee, says he plans to make a formal complaint. That would put the policy on the Sept. 1 agenda of the school district’s policy review committee.

School Board president Kent Alberty says the practice complies with federal law, but if there is a written complaint the practice will be re-examined.

The names of students and parents, their addresses and phone numbers are available for $100 for every two grade levels of information. Twenty-three lists were sold last year.

A parent can request that information not be sold to outside groups, but such a decision also will prevent the student’s information from appearing with such things as sports rosters and theater programs.

I know Kevin personally, trust me, when he takes something on, he gets it done.

Super Precints do not work. C’mon already.

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How many times does this stupid f’ing experiment have to fail before the city and the school district wakeup and go, “Guess it doesn’t work.”

Only one of every 42 registered voters cast a ballot for the incumbent in Tuesday’s Sioux Falls School Board election, but he cruised to a second term.

 

Darin Daby will be joined on the board by newcomer Kate Parker, who earned votes from every 43rd registered voter. The ratio for the losing candidate, Mike Deitschman, was one in 63.

I will admit, I did not vote. Which is rare for me. But like I have said before, my property taxes are low and I don’t have any kids. I also believe public education is one of the wisest uses of tax money. I didn’t really like any of the candidates either. One was a rubberstamper, one co-owns a family business that is anti-union and anti-worker rights and one is a teabagger defender. So no votes from me. I also don’t know where my super precint is, I usually just absentee vote at the courthouse.

The school district used 23 super precincts, so most voters had a different voting place compared to the 2008 general election. Deitschman said he had supporters calling him to say they couldn’t find their polling place.

Surprise! Surprise!

Daby called the turnout “disappointing” and said he’s willing to listen to ideas on how to raise public interest.

Well Daby, you are the president of the school board, why not suggest getting rid of super precints? That would be a start.

We have super precints to aproximately save $16,000 per election, but the city has no problem with paying a consultant $50,000 to tell us what a historical window looks like. Go figure.* There should never be a pricetag on one of greatest rights in a democracy. It’s foolish, petty and UnAmerican to limit voters. But of course we live in a city that violates many constitutional rights, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone.

*(BTW- I know that the city didn’t pay for this election, but have used super precints in the past with similiar results).