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Tuesday April 06, 2010 · 9:01 AM PDT

2010/04/06 · 09:01

Warning: This started as a comment for teacherken's diary but got too long.

A new, young and inexperienced teacher is becoming what many educational polices favor. New/young teachers can be paid less for many reasons. They don’t have years of experience behind them, are less likely to have graduate degrees and don’t complain about having to support a family on a small salary. Health care for younger teachers cost less because many health problems crop up with age. Like many young workers they are willing to take abuse and mistreatment that would not be tolerated by seasoned workers. Also like many young workers they are often not as effective as older, more experienced workers. Also like many young workers, they are willing to work crazy hours for the first few years of their career in exchange for gaining the tools they need to be effective doing the job with less hours.

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 · 5:20 PM PST

2009/02/11 · 17:20

There is currently a diary on the rec list that has this comment:

* [new] I don't know whether to thank you or not (1+ / 0-)

because you stuck up for Texas and the South against the bashers, but you're encouraging bashing law enforcement nationwide.

There are bad cops. That's not even an open question.
What happened in this case just reinforces that fact.

But there are also good cops -- and we never hear about them.
No allowance is ever made for their existence.

Cops are like teachers. They're underpaid, overextended, stressed to the max in service to crushingly complex rules. (Emphasis mine)

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Sunday July 13, 2008 · 9:34 PM PDT

2008/07/13 · 21:34

I wrote this poem after reading a diary here where the diarist tries to defend the New Yorker cartoon by saying it is satire. Let me be clear. I'm a black woman who wears an afro every single day. A HUGE afro. I wear my hair like that because it grows like that and I'm fond of it. I wrote this poem in response to that diary:

Insular living
It must be nice
Hanging out with the good and the white
All good Americans respect your vice
When you’re lucky enough to be male
And white

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Friday July 11, 2008 · 12:41 PM PDT

2008/07/11 · 12:41

At least I really hope that with my third donation to Barack Obama, this one for $25, I can win a seat at the convention...which is just slightly better than winning dinner with Barack Obama (which I tried but failed at a few months ago). I've been watching closely and reading all the FISA diaries and I'm amazed and a little jealous. My priorities in life are so much closer to the bottom of Maslow's scale that I can't afford to be distracted about FISA when what I'm truly worried about is if my credit card company is going to simultaneously raise the APR on my "fixed rate" credit card while lowering the limit.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/04/04 · 15:38

I was always the militant anti-racist in my family. I was the one who reprimanded my father for using the words "cracker" and "spic". I was the one who had a rainbow of friends, ate everybody's food and believed in sunshine, butterflies and Kum Ba Yah. But the combination of this election season and my decreasing contact with whites is stripping me of my ability to interact with whites in a positive way.
And I'm worried about it. Cause I don't want to turn into my grandmother who assumed that all white people were out to get her. I don't want to feel paranoid and uncomfortable around whites. I don't want to rob myself of possible friendships and social acquaintances because of my anger and paranoia and fear.
I don't know if this is something that happens as we age, as we meld into day to day lives with jobs and routines, but it is not acceptable to me. I refuse to let myself get so mentally lazy that I judge people by the color of their skin.

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What does the public want?

Cops are not like teachers

Insular living must be nice.

I'm joining Barack at the Open Convention!!

help me, i'm becoming a racist.