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the striking children
of edison hs
 
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We've Been Jumping Around
With Some Of These Colorful Vignettes.
That's Not Bad, But
Straighten Me Out On The Chronology Again Please.
You Say Our Graduate Student
Subbed For Three Years
And Then Went To Alaska ?
That's right.
That's the big picture.

The '87 - '88 school year
he subbed every day, plus summer school.
Then he got a CDL Class A license, as well.

The '88 - '89 school year
he hauled tomatoes and walnuts
(by the way, you see that the plurals of tomato
and of potato are tomaTOE and potaTOE
with an 's' added at the end.
ANY very very very very busy person
could accidentally misspell potato or tomato with an extra "e".
Even Our Graduate Student,
who always SMOKED his class in spelling bees
when he was in the fifth grade,
misspelled a word decades later
when he was teaching fifth grade.)

Anyway, that year, after driving a bit
he got involved in the Victory '88 Presidential Campaign.
Then he drove over-the-road up and down Interstate 5.
Then he taught for 2 months for Central Texas College
at Naval Air Station Alameda.
He also did some subbing that year during interludes.

'89 - '90 school year
he hauled tomatoes and walnuts in the summer and fall,
and then he got a long-term teaching assignment
in stockton, ca, from December through April or May.
Stockton was ranked s the most dangerous city
in the country, in those days.
In the summer of '90 he hauled tomatoes again
and then got a teaching job in Alaska.

So, that's the chronology of the three years.
To tell you the truth,
Our Graduate Student can hardly remember the chronology, himself.
It's only in the telling of the story
that everything starts to fit into place again,
as he remembers the details.

During those three years
Our Graduate Student subbed
in various districts surrounding sacramento,
mostly in the first year,
and then some in the second year.
By the third year, he was disillusioned with subbing
and he subbed very little that year, if at all.
The long-term assignment in stockton
was not subbing, technically, but was a temporary contract.

So, Everybody Was Out To Get Him
While He Was Subbing ?
No. You're not listening closely.
We can't read people's minds.
Sure, in retrospect, there was a conspiracy.
But he was a good sub
and got called to work every day
and he had a lot of good experiences.
Each school district had it's own personality
and it's own politics.

The El Dorado school district in the foothills
called him a lot in those days
when he was still in the credentialing classes.
He enjoyed teaching some of those kids.
A lot of them were somewhat affluent, from good families,
and that often correlates with well mannered, talented kids
like kids on Disney radio or kids brought up in Palm Springs.
He almost got a student teaching internship there,
but it fell through on salary negotiation.
A former navy officer was the vice principal
and he had a military mentality,
had a big "navy" coffee cup on his desk.
A lot of those former military officers forever think of
former enlisted men as "merely enlisted men,"
not understanding that, for many of us,
the military was merely a stepping stone.
A lot of us were glad to get out
and away from the simpleminded bullshit and abuse.
Our self image was not wrapped up in that enlisted status.
Our Graduate Student had to put up with
two former officers and two former enlisted coworkers
when he worked at the county assessor's office in '79 - '80.
He was about ready to throw his desk at ALL of them
by the time the year ended there.
He was the youngest and it was like he was pledging
for a hazing frat boy fraternity all year.
Excuse me, but he was already a navy "shellback,"
having participated in that time-honored Navy tradition
when he crossed the equator
somewhere in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
He didn't have the time for their bullshit.
That was probably ONE of the reasons
he didn't accept that shipboard teaching assignment
a few years later.

Dr. Ravitch is right that the militaristic business approach
to education is clearly not the best.
The obsession with "basics" leaves the
bright and motivated kids bored to exasperation
and intellectually undeveloped.
The military, even the service academies,
emphasizes conformity and groupthink and top-down hierarchy.
Today's paradigm is networking and a flat, crumpled earth (Megatrends 1982),
and freedom of though and speech
which are antithetical to the military system.
Of course, there definitely IS a place
for former military officers in education system.
They can teach the unmotivated bottom 20%
who ruin it for everyone else.
They can teach them 5th grade arithmetic
and 5th grade reading for the rest of their lives, if they want to.
Just keep them away from the rest of us, that's all
so we can get on with excellent education and fulfilling lives.
That would take care of two problem populations at once.

Of course, former military officers
are far, far, far, far, far, far, far better
than the former sixties campus activists.
Suddenly, in their forties, they'd put on a jacket
and even a tie,
and they'd strut around actin' all important
like they were The Establishment or somethin'.
Problem is, they were.
They became The Establishment
and started teaching nonsense in the schools.
Says Dr. Ravitch about public schools
in "The Language Police" (2003),
"Something is terribly wrong here." (p. 163)
"The flight from knowledge and content" (p. 164)
"This is as wacky a combination as anyone might dream up. (p. 162)
"George Orwell and Franz Kafka would have understood this system perfectly." (p. 158)
"Only a George Orwell could fully appreciate
how honorable words like fairness and diversity
have been deployed to impose censorship and uniformity on everyday language." (p. 80)
(and on thought, as well).
"The goal of the language police
is not just to stop us from using objectionable words
but to stop us from having objectionable thoughts." (p. 158)
Our Graduate Student fully appreciated it, though.
David Scully fully appreciated it, way back in 1982.
He blew the whistle back then.
He sounded the horn.
He rode the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
banging on people's minds all along the way,
"The Liberal Fascists are coming !"
"The Liberal Fascists are coming !"

Our Graduate Student Loves To Quote Dr. Ravitch.
How can one illuminate a sunburst ?
It is impossible to illuminate illumination itself.
One can only present it for glorious viewing, bit by bit.

Another great sunburst
is Dinesh D'Souza's "Illiberal Education."
So bright luminous is he
that we must catch our breaths from the brilliant Ravitch experience
and rest our eyes and minds

before taking in the splendors of D'Souza's marvelous sunburst.
We'll get to him in due time
even if we have to just stop our story in mid-track
just to talk about his book.

What About Some Of The Other School Districts ?
The loveable kids werent' just
the affluent, well-behaved talented ones.
Our Graduate Student remembers subbing in one poor district
just before Christmas.
It was the Rio Linda School District, I think.
The little ones, first and second graders, maybe third too
were assembled to sing Christmas carols.

Isn't That Politically Incorrect and Offensive
And Horrible In Every Way ?
Didn't It Fill The Children's Minds
With Horrible Cultural Bias
And Racial And Sexual Stereotypes !?
Isn't Santa Clause A WHITE MAN !!!??
Why ! You...You...You
Fucking RACIST !
You would think.
But, somehow, it must have slipped by there.
Like I said, each district had its own personality.
In the sacramento city school district
they humiliated Our Graduate Student
and had the feminist mayor
come to the room and
taunt and tease Our Graduate Student with hints
of the liberal fascist conspiracy he would endure
for more than two decades.
But, in the Rio Linda School District,
they let children be children.
They sang their hearts out.
It brings tears to Our Graduate Student's eyes
just to recall them.
"Ho Ho Ho
Who Wouldn't Go ?
Ho Ho Ho
Who Wouldn't Go oh ?
Up On The Housetop Click Click Click
Down Through The Chim ney
With Old Saint Nick !"
Nobody had to cajole any of them to participate.
This was important !
This was BIG !
Santa Claus was listenin' !
And he heard 'em !
They sang so hard and earnest and clear and loud,
I know he heard 'em
way up there in North Pole, Alaska.
Our Graduate Student had never heard that song
or any Christmas song, sung so earnestly.
They weren't rich in that school district.
But they could wonder, and hope, and dream
and they did.

And, then again, there was
the elkhorn school district,
or something like that.
They were assholes,
they were gunnin' for Our Graduate Student.
They harassed him there.
After just a few sub assignments there
he told their dispatcher
he wouldn't accept assignments at one of their schools.
Later on, he was interviewing there for a teaching position
and was in the waiting area with a female applicant.
Eventually, the guy comes out
and yells at him angrily,
"It's 
her
turn now !"

That Was Odd.
It certainly was.
Very unprofessional.
Rude. Hostile. 
Our Graduate Student talked about it
to the credentialing and traffic school in stockton
and they said it was very unprofessional
and started talking about how wrong it was
for some people to try to prevent someone
from having a teaching career.
These were all hints of the conspiracy
that he would endure for over two decades,
but at the time he was too naive and trusting
to think that it was that much of problem.
"Bitter, jealous malcontents" he thought,
"They can't all be like that.
They can't ALL be that bad.
Ill fit in somewhere."
But they could all be that bad.
This is probably a good segway to edison hs in stockton.
So, let's get there.

So, you can see that Our Graduate Student
subbed all around,
rich, poor, inner city, suburban and rural,
Kindergartners, high school seniors,
gifted and talented, special ed

Since There Was This Conspiracy
Against Him By Some,
Did They Ever Try To Set Him Up
With Violent Students
or Promiscuous Girls
Or Difficult Special Education Students ?
That's hard to say
because that's part of the job.

Our Graduate Student didn't feel that
everyone was out to get him.
Sometimes he felt that they really liked him
and that they gave him really good classes.
When he got a really nice class
for a week or more
he sometimes had the impression
that he was being observed for a possible regular position.
Dealing with difficult boys was a recurring problem.
And sometimes when he encountered
very attractive and forward girls,
he wondered if it was a setup.
But, he was told that that kind of thing was common,
and he was young and good looking himself
so he didn't dwell on it.
Besides, with the girls it didn't matter.
You behaved the same anyway
whether you were being tested and observed, or not.
Usually, he'd just brush off difficult situations,
realizing that there was no way of knowing for sure
whether they were setup situations
or just part of the randomness of subbing.
But sometimes it made him mad.

One time he was called to sub a special education class.
They were severely handicapped children in wheelchairs,
but it didn't appear that any teachers were absent.
It was about a one-to-one adult-to-child ratio,
and he felt superfluous.
So, he just did what the other adults asked him to,
even though he was the teacher
and some of them were aides.
They worked with these handicapped children every day
and they understood their needs.

So they asked him to go with one boy
and "help him go to the bathroom."
So, OUr Graduate Student sought more specific instructions
and asked exactly what they wanted him to do.
They would only say, "help him go to the bathroom."
The boy was in a wheelchair and Our Graduate Student
didn't know how much help he needed,
so he kept asking for specifics
and they wouldn't give him any.
Obviously you can see the problem here.
If the boy has to shit
and needs somebody to take him out of the wheelchair
and take his pants down and put him on the potty
those requirements need to be very clearly delineated.
But they wouldn't make it clear.
So, finally Our Graduate Student
just went with the boy to the bathroom.
Turns out he didn't need any help at all.
He was even able to open all the doors,
went into the stall by himself
and took care of business by himself.
Our Graduate Student just stood outside the stall and waited.
But he was pissed.
He didn't know the extent of the boy's handicap.
Maybe in some cases you do have to
take their pants down and put them on the potty and wipe their butt.
Nurses and nurse's aides do it.
He didn't know. He didn't work with special ed students,
and he didn't know these students.
So, in that case, because they were so vague
and left it up to Our Graduate Student to decide what to do,
even though he repeatedly asked for more specific direction,
and because there didn't appear to be any absent teacher,
he was a little angry about that.
"Here I am trained to be a Physics and Math high school teacher,
and they're testin' me to see if I'm gonna grope
some handicapped little boy in a wheelchair !"
If that was what they were doing,
and it seemed that is was,
that was really pretty fucking offensive !

Our Graduate Student had a very different experience one day.
He was teaching a regular 5th or 6th grade in a nicer neighborhood
and he had a very gifted boy in the class.
Our Graduate Student thought he was a genius.
He knew more about the space station than Our Graduate Student did,
so Our Graduate Student let him teach the class that afternoon.
Later on, when he talked to the boy's mother, she was just thrilled.
The other kids sometimes made fun of him
and called him "Dexter" because he was so smart.
The boy had come home that day like he was walkin' on cloud nine.
It was such a positive experience for him.
The mother was so happy about it
and Our Graduate Student was glad that he did it.
You never really know for sure whether it's a good idea
to try something different,
but in that case it seemed like a no brainer to
let this kid with the great brain
teach the class
and be put forth as a role model.

Our Graduate Student started subbing during strikes.
He didn't see why not.
Quite often he wasn't treated very well by teachers.
He subbed a few days up near Lake Tahoe
and a week or two down in L.A.

Wow, That's A Lot Of Traveling.
Yeah. Well, he slept in his pickup.
Tahoe was only about 2 hours away.
L.A. was an 8 hour trip, but he stayed all week.
More interesting, though, was when he subbed locally
at the neighborhood high school where he lived
when the sac city school district went on strike.

On about the second day,
there was a fight in a hallway
and Our Graduate Student saw
a couple of really big teachers break it up.
One was African American.
They looked like football players,
like they were 250 pounds of muscle or more.
So, after they left with some of the culprits,
a fight breaks out again.
There's no regular teachers present this time,
so Our Graduate Student follows their example
and steps in and breaks up the fight.
These weren't little kids.
This was a high school, not a jr. high or elementary.
Our Graduate Student's not a big guy,
so he had to be forceful to show he meant business.
He took action fast, quick, forceful,
aggressive, loud, and sudden.
Break It Up !
Get The Fuck Off !
NOW !!!!
He yelled that loud
while he grabbed the kid on top,
surprising the hell out of him,
and escorted him off to the office.

This student had an attitude though.
Obviously he did, because he was fighting.
Adreneline was high.
But he wasn't walking to the office cooperatively
like those other students did
when escorted off by those huge football linemen.
Finally, this kid just makes a really sudden move
and Our Graduate Student
just grabs the back of his hair
and drags him down to the floor and holds him there
waiting for someone so show up.
Otherwise that would have been another brawl.

Later on, some Asian kid shakes Our Graduate Student's hand
real hard and earnest and looks him in the eye
and says, "Thank You, sir" several times.

The newspaper, reporting on the strike, says,
"a substitute teacher broke up a gang fight."
So Our Graduate Student figures he did the right thing.
When he was holding the kid on the floor,
after some adults showed up
he escorted them all to the office to make a report.
Of course the kid is complaining
that this "big dude" (Our Graduate Student)
had grabbed him.
Next day at the morning assembly
this asian female, maybe a vice principal or something,
says, "We don't want to be doing things
that will attract media attention,"
and they didn't call him to sub any more
even though the strike lasted several more days.

So, It's Damned If You Do,
Damned If You Don't.
That's right.
Our Graduate Student was criticized
for not breaking up that attack
by the two African American girls at highlands high school.
There at mcclatchy high school in sacramento
he breaks up what was apparently a gang fight.
And it was a white kid he grabbed,
but they're never satisfied.
It's ALWAYS Our Graduate Student's fault.
It fits their shallow FAKE MYTH.
I told you asians just don't get it.
Apparently, it was a "white on asian" gang fight he broke up.
That asian vp should have been
honoring and thanking Our Graduate Student
but she acted like what he did
was "unseemly" and inappropriate.
He did exactly what the regular teachers had done,
but it was much harder for him
because he was about 80 pounds lighter.
What most of these high schools need is excellent security,
and they need to get that poor "bottom 20%"
that Dr. Ravitch's heart bleeds for
and get them the hell out of the schools
and put them into some kind of boot camp "scared straight" program.
There. There's your jobs for your military officers.

That brings us to edison hs in stockton.

It's Been A Long Time Comin'
Yeah.
So, anyway, in the third year,
after two years of subbing,
Our Graduate Student's gettin' pissed,
'cause he knows he shoulda been hired by now
as a regular Math or Physics teacher.
There'd been a "critical shortage" of Math and Science teachers
for decades.
There still is.
He was HIGHLY qualified to teach those subjects.
He still is.

So, he calls up that ridiculous traffic school
and credential stamping school
and asks 'em what the hell's going on.
Why hasn't he been hired by anybody ?
They get back to him after a few days
or a week or so
and tell him there's an opening for a Math teacher
right there in stockton where they are.
He goes and interviews and gets hired
a few days before Christmas break.
It was a contract position for the rest of the year.
Some old white female teacher
took the rest of the year off for some reason.
Teachers have great union contracts
and can do stuff like that.

So, anyway, Our Graduate Student learns that
the teachers are gonna go on strike
when they get back after Christmas break.
Our Graduate Student didn't know what to do.
He just gets his first job
and after 2 or 3 days of class
he's supposed to go on strike ?
He didn't know any of the teachers.
To be fair, though,
he was invited to the house of one of them
and they told him about the impending strike.
They didn't tell him they expected him to strike, though.
Almost all those teachers probably had tenure, he figured.
He'd been working less than a week.
He decided not to strike.

Was This Where They Showed "Beetlejuice ?"
Yes.
Isn't that something ?
I'll admit that I never saw "Beetlejuice,"
but I did see the trailers
and, based on the trailers, the movie was just garbage.
Talk about dumbing down students !
I mean, there's hundreds of thousands
of good films of all kinds to show
and they show the kids "Beetlefuckingjuice !"

So, anyway, Our Graduate Student doesn't strike.
He avoids the strikers.
He drives onto campus at 5am,
and leaves campus at 9pm.
He has "tendencies to avoidance"
a psychologist once told him.
Maybe it's because he had a psychotic, murdering mother
and because he lives in a crazy world
full of crazy, bratty, childish liberal fascists
who are running the asylum.
So, the strikers are all full of themselves.
They think it's another Vietnam war they're protesting.
These striking children called themselves
"the striking vikings"
'cause the viking was the school mascot.
Even the school janitors thought the teachers were childish.
They had their own union
and Our Graduate Student saw a letter
that the janitor's union wrote
to the teachers' union
and put in all the teachers' mailboxes.
That letter said that the teachers' union
was "an immature union."
The teachers didn't support the janitors when they struck,
so the janitors didn't support the teachers.
But,
if the teachers couldn't get any adults on their side,
they rallied the children to their cause.
I don't know how many times
Our Graduate Student heard the children
cry about the teachers
"but they
believe
in what they're doing !"
I thought I was the only one
who could see that that was NOT a good reason
to support them,
until I read D'Souza make the same point
in "Illiberal Education."
OF COURSE the teachers believed
in getting more money for doing less work.
Besides, it's unprofessional to get children involved.
The teachers had the poor kids convinced
that they were striking for them,
for the students,
to make education better for them, the students.
They had some of the kids all worked up
and emotional about it.

Anyway, Our Graduate Student
figured the best thing to do
was just to avoid the emotional picket line
and let the whole thing blow over
when the teachers got their way,
which it seems they always do.
Admittedly, he avoided them.
But, if they thought it was so important,
they could have contacted him some way.
They knew where he was all day.
They could have passed a note to him
via some student or parent or teacher or administrator.
They do that a lot in schools, you know.
Pass notes, that is.

Yeah. Yeah.
That's Absolutely Right.
Did It Myself.
Passes Notes In School.
If they had spoken to Our Graduate Student nicely
and told him that it was important
for him to join them on the picket line,
he would have done so.
He just didn't think it mattered.
Everybody was just going through the motions,
he figured.
Nobody really cared.
But, after the strike
he found out how childish the striking children were.

You know it's funny.
Everywhere you go, you find the same characters.
You can read a book that's a hundred fifty years old
and you'll see the came cast of characters described
that you see today, here there and everywhere.
It's a lot like the Mandelbroth set in mathematics (VERIFY THIS)
where the graphs repeat endlessly forever and ever.
Similarly, in education
you have your waddling matrons who only hint
and never say anything directly,
and you have your stocky, fat little red-faced
angry screaming guy.
There was both of that at edison,
and after the strike
the angry guy would yell at Our Graduate Student
across the campus.
Still, Our Graduate Student didn't care.
There were other teachers who didn't strike.
Why should they care about him,
a new teacher who'd been there 3 days ?
One of the angry guys would scream about
how he "wouldn't share a foxhole" with Our Graduate Student,
who began to conclude that many of them
were very childish and unprofessional.

So, anyway, he just focuses on teaching
through January February and March
and sometime in March, I think,
the principal observes his teaching
and gives him a good evaluation.

But then there was big incident.
Our Graduate Student was focusing on teaching.
One of the vp's told him what the policies were
regarding student tardies.
After three tardies, a student got an hour's detention
with the vice principal.
Our Graduate Student had a student who was often late,
and he told the vp that
he didn't intend to enforce that rule too strictly,
but the vp insisted.
It sounded like a direct order,
so Our Graduate Student marked the kid tardy each time,
and gave him detention the third time.
The vp's name was murchison, a big African American.
He sold real estate on the side.
One time, Our Graduate Student
brought up the behavior transgressions committed by
a tall, statuesque African American girl,
but murchison wanted to "negotiate" that.
Meanwhile, the little mexican american kid
kept gettin' marked tardy.

Now, Our Graduate Student was typical
of any young person new to a career.
He was high on enthusiasm and effort,
but often made choices that weren't the best ones.
For example, an experienced teacher
would have ignored most, or even all, of the tardies,
even after discussing them with the vp.
In fact, an experienced teacher
wouldn't have bother to bring it up.
And, Our Graduate Student
was enthusiastic about teaching, too.
He tried to get the most out of all the class time,
the way you're supposed to.
Well, to cut to the chase,
one day he got the class through the lesson plan
with plenty of time to spare (maybe 20 minutes),
so he gave them supplementary problems
and they all whined and complained about it.
He scolded them and extolled the virtues of hard work.
Not the best choice, but not a bad thing to do.
He could have eased up and congratulated them,
but he was a new teacher, like I said.
So, anyway, that kid had been late that day
for the third time again,
and had earned another detention.
He went ballistic.
He started screaming and yelling
and threatening everything.
Our Graduate Student knew an emergency when he saw one,
so he went and pushed the button on the side wall
and told the office he needed security.
IMMEDIATELY.
It was an overcrowded school
and Our Graduate Student was in his own separate "portable"
across the campus from the office.
But, that didn't really matter.
They never sent security, anyway.
So, the angry cursing kid goes over to
the side of the classroom where
Our Graduate Student was at the button
and he blocked Our Graduate Student in
and kept screaming and yelling and making threats.
Our Graduate Student wondered later
why none of the other students did anything about it.
He concluded that it was because of racism
(the school was 98% minority).
Also, he believes that the striking teachers
had created a hostile working environment for him.
I have already told you how childish and hostile
the teachers were,
and how they had worked up the children to their "cause."
Who knows ? Maybe some teachers had sent this boy
out on a "mission" to attack Our Graduate Student.
I'm not joking one bit about this.
I think it's very much in character with their behavior
and with the way things played out.
So, anyway, Our Graduate Student
tried to defuse the situation
by assuming a nonthreatening position.
He sat up on the counter
that ran along the side of the classroom, and waited.
Meanwhile, the student had moved to within several feet,
and he was keeping himself worked up.
Finally, Our Graduate Student felt that it would be best
to get out of that boxed in position
and get to the front of the class
where he could open the door
so security would know which building to go to.
So, he walked past the student
brushing the boy as he passed by.
The boy jumped on his back, kicking him
in the backs of the knees and knocking him down.
Then he swung with all his might
landing a right hook on Our Graduate Student's nose.
Eventually, Our Graduate Student staggered to his feet
with the boy clinging onto his back.
Like this, they stumbled around, knocking over file cabinets.
Eventually, Our Graduate Student
stumbled to the door with the boy on his back,
went outside, and the whole class filed out
to see the show.
The show finally ended
as security finally dallied on over.

Holy Shit !
Yeah. That's "traditional public schools" for you.
As bad as charter schools may be
we must
NEVER FORGET
the evils of public schools, "traditional" or not,
as run by the liberal fascists.
D'Souza know.
I implore you all to STUDY "Illiberal Education."
Ravitch knows.
She's told us of the horrors of the liberal fascists
all through "Left Back" and "The Troubled Crusade"
and "The Language Police."
May she never forget !

Wow, That Was Horrible !
What Happened Then ?
Oh, I'm getting tired just talking about it again.
They dramatized the incident
by calling for an ambulance.
They could have driven Our Graduate Student
to the hospital in a car to have his nose evaluated.
It was broken, or it might be more accurate to say
that the septum was greatly deviated.
For a decade and a half, it caused chronic ear infections.
Eventually, the VA operated on the septum,
improving it a little,
but Our Graduate Student has to take a SUDAFED
every day now to prevent congestion and infections.

Why Didn't They Operate On It Back Then ?
Oh, it seemed like all the factions
were allied against him.
The union leader contacted him
and told him the union members "really cared."
I guess that shows that they could have called him
any time during the strike, too.
The asian doctor in stockton was rude
and seemed to be trying to scare him
by showing him a gross and scary video of the operation.

Even though the principal said
that the boy would not be allowed back in the school,
teachers supported him
and he had a LOT of support at court.
He had, after all, committed a CRIME.
But, the African American judge was RACIST.
Let's hear you yell "racist."

RACIST !
Good job.
I'm very proud of you.
Yeah. He started yelling at Our Graduate Student
from the very beginning. The judge was racist.

Then What ?
Well, they expected
Our Graduate Student
to return to that classroom.
Considering the entire hostile environment
in the classroom and on the campus,
Our Graduate Student knew better.
Even just psychologically it was unhealthy.
He knew that much.
Since he had done nothing wrong,
he felt he should not lose his employment either.
They owed him a transfer, at the very least.
He should have sued them,
but he had no support system
of friends, family, or advisors.
So he found some psychologist in Davis
who specialized in racism at the workplace.
They were African American
and they supported his position.
So, the African American female superintendent
of that stockton school district
had to comply.
"Oh, We're gonna have to get someone
REALLY strong to handle you,"
she told him.
So they transferred him to this
white feminist principal
at probably the worst elementary school in stockton.
Once again he had a room far from the office
so he had to use the student bathroom next door.
He had a 5th or 6th grade class
and the boys shut the door and blocked him in.
He felt kind of panicked
(understandable, considering what he'd just been through).
He ordered them to get away from the door
and he put his shoulder into it to open it.
The doorknob hit the ringleader in the face
because he was peeping through the keyhole
giving reports to the admiring crowd behind him.
The "strong" and hostile feminist principal
had the issue that she needed
to villify Our Graduate Student.
Facing even more resistance and accusations
and lacking a support system,
Our Graduate Student resigned.
That summer, he got a teaching job in Alaska
and left california and sacramento,
with the understanding that he would
have split physical custody of his daughter up there.
He was fed up with the craziness and hostility
of sacramento.
Some chicano even pulled a gun on him
at a traffic light near his home.
Like Our Graduate Student and that Olympic Athlete
would both comment, 6 years later,
about the craziness down here,
"THis
S U C K S  !"

So, THAT Explains
Why Our Graduate Student
Left Sacramento And Went To Alaska !
That's right.
And the reason he returned 6 years later
is NOT because he was fleeing
the murder of a girl.
Alaska was much more peaceful and beautiful than california,
but the education establishment up there
is just an extension of california education.
Most of the teachers and administrators in Alaska
come from the lower 48,
and many of them come from california,
and many of them come from northern california.

Whew ! What A Day !
Are You Tired ?
Yes, I am.
Just thinking and talking about all that is wearying,
and we left a lot of details out.
But, anyway, we're done with california
for the next six years.
I don't know what we'll talk about tomorrow.
Maybe Alaska, but there's plenty of time for that.
Maybe now would be a good time
to enjoy the Wonderfulness of Dinesh D'Souza
and his absolutely wonderful "Illiberal Education."
It will set the stage quite well
for the other side of Alaska,
the dark side of Alaska we haven't discussed yet,
the liberal feminist education fascists in Alaska.

All Right. Get Some Rest. Play With Your Dog.
Til Tomorrow Then
Til tomorrow then.

OK
Very Easily.

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OK
Very Easily.