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The Proctor Is In: Million Moron March
By Aaron Proctor | May 20, 2008
PUSD parent, Oxy College prof, and the man with the dirtiest beard in Pasadena (seriously), Peter Dreier, says there’s going to be a “big march through Pasadena on Saturday, May 31st” to protest budget cuts in excess of $10 million that PUSD will be facing.
So is this march going to be like a parade?
If so, you’re going to need something big to grab people’s attention.
I think I have just the thing:
First of all, Peter Dreier is a dumb [beast of burden]. Here’s a quote from an article published on the…*throws up in my mouth a little bit*…Huffington Post:
In many years of activism, I’ve rarely seen such an outpouring of genuine grassroots anger and mobilization.
Really? I mean, you and your hippie friends don’t protest like..the war, ever?! Hey, I’m angry, too. Angry that you want more #!@$?! money to just throw out the window.
So the state is cutting your money so we can try and spend that money on more worthwhile things? I don’t see what’s wrong with that. I don’t see why some of these PUSD people are such sheep. How is more money going to fix our failing public schools when that’s all we, the taxpayers, keep doing? Paying more and more and more money for your trainwreck of a school system.
So, chew on those apples when you’re having your little Million Moron March on May 31st. If you’re a part of PUSD, good luck finding Pasadena on the map. Oh - and one more thing - it’s one foot in front of the other. Or do you need me to give you $5,000 to remember that?
More here.
- AP
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May 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Skipping right over juvenile ad hominem, you’re literally making a political arguments based on calling someone a dirty hippie. Is this level of sophisticated discourse going to be an increasingly regular feature around here?
What the hell happened to this blog?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Obviously the Proctologist doesn’t face the problem of educating kids in a state that doesn’t give a rat’s ass about its youngest citizens.
But now that I think about it, what does our fine govt here in California care about? Outside of making lots of money for its well-heeled friends in the real estate, development, medical, and insurance fields?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
The blog just got more awesome???
May 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Also, it’s not always “just the state’s fault” because a lot of our kids have stupid parents, grow up in environment that don’t nurture education, or are just plain stupid themselves.
Why doesn’t anyone else say this, though?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
AP: “Why doesn’t anyone else say this, though?”
Because they’re not stupid?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Oh, that’s right..I forgot…people complain politicians aren’t “honest”..but when someone is honest, it’s “stupid”?
May 20th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Sure. Whatever you say.
Oh look, it’s the Waaahmbulance. Here to pick up Aaron!
May 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wasn’t cryin’ about it.
And you can’t steal my wahmbulance.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Nope. You have a monopoly on your wahmbulance.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act does not cover the wahmbulance
May 20th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Neither does the Pasadena Useless Citizens Act. But that has hardly stopped you.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Burn!!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Proctor says Drier’s a self-serving limousine liberal weenie. He just says it different than me. I call him a plantation mentality rich guy who sits on his front porch in Linda Vista and tells the poor folks how to live. It’s all good as long as they don’t live next door to him and his wealthy white family.
The guy’s hypocrite who’s gotta be on the PUSD payroll or somehow on the dole to be such a pawn in their pr machine.
I wish PUSD didn’t suck so had. I’d love to save $22K each year on tuition so I can be sure my kids get a decent education in a safe place where teachers pay attention and nobody loses $300K because they can’t count students in seats.
PUSD problems are about a lot more than money. And money won’t solve PUSD’s problems.
D.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:59 am
If I had kids, I’d get a 2nd or 3rd job just to send them to private school.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:46 am
And all that time you spend working your 2nd and 3rd job, you could be home with your kids and doing such unheard-of things like talking with them, playing with them, teaching them to be decent human beings who take responsibility for their own actions, even just watching TV with them. Then you could send them to PUSD, and guess what? They’ll probably do just fine.
Does PUSD need a march to protest budget cuts? No.
Does PUSD need to be more accountable with the public money it is entrusted with? Yes.
PUSD needs to set some clear, measureable academic goals and achieve them. And they need to put it up front what they will do if they don’t achieve said goals. But come on, spare the dramatics. Nobody NEEDS to spend money on private school to get a decent education for their kids. What people need to do is stop expecting PUSD to raise thier kids, and let them do the job of educating the kids. Then Drier wouldn’t need his extra $10-million, and Dormitas could save his $22-thousand.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
I agree with the first part, Eric. It’s like I’ve been saying all along - it’s not just the schools, it’s not just the parents, it’s a combination of all those things as well as choosing your own destiny.
I wouldn’t expect PUSD to raise my kids but - with all of the shenangians I read about - wouldn’t trust PUSD with my kids for even a few hours.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
And I also agree that we need to stop expecting PUSD to this and that…. but they *are* a school district, so they do have some kind of image to uphold, no? I mean, unless we just buy better textbooks for our kids at home and such so they actually know we’ve now reached the moon and that Eisenhower isn’t President anymore.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Yeah… and sometimes I’m a little too quick in my response to the attacks on PUSD, because more often than not, they come off sounding like “public education is a huge waste and must be eschewed at all costs.” As I’ve said before, I’m a dyed-in-the-wool public education person, but PUSD has a lot of problems. And the problems are not solved with more money, more consultants, more re-inventing education, or newer textbooks and curricula. They are primarily solved by changing the way kids are passed through the system.
As an example, someone will always bring up the “kid in my 4th graded daughter’s class that can’t read.” What in the hell is he doing in 4th grade? The school district needs to answer that question. And do the parents know or care that the kid is in 4th grade and can’t read, and what are they doing about it?
And, by the way, my grade school texts were current though about Gerald Ford during the early Reagan era, so I guess we weren’t doing too bad.