Hot Time Summer in the City

As I sit here looking across at my neighbor who teaches in the local district and watch him roll out at noon again after a night of having his friends over to party I think back not too many years to when I was just starting out in the world of work.
 I never had a job where I only was required to work 180 days out of the year and as my early summers wore on I began to meet many who taught who didn't either. Much like the rest of us who work for a living they found that a teachers salary was just not enough to carry them through the whole year without finding summer work to fill the gap. If you are in your 60's you might also remember a time in America when teachers were not overpaid for their work.
 School budgets were in line and districts were able to keep up with maintenance and building without saddling the taxpayer with huge debts in the form of bond issues. I got to know many teachers who worked in the summer, they did lot work at dealerships, seasonal sales, they filled employment gaps all through this country and no one thought the worse of them because they had menial jobs.
Not the guy across the street in 2012, while his school district flounders under a mountain of debt he leads a playboy lifestyle of the rich and famous, getting up at noon staying up late puttering about in the afternoons.

My, My, poor baby, he should take a cruise, at least then I wouldn't have to look at him.

Teachers take note:
Recently cash strapped cities like Scranton have begun to take drastic measures, just think if you were knocked down to Federal Minimum Wage. It's time for concessions, no one is fooled by your Ad Spots about "investing in our teachers", we've been there done that, we are not impressed with the result.

RIP NCLB?

So President Obama is using Executive privilege to make another end run around Congressional Law, this time the target is NCLB. The unfortunate thing is while the schools are freed from performance standards most of the costly bullshit programs that are sucking the districts dry will stay in place. They are entitlements and if we have learned nothing from history we should have at least had our noses rubbed in shit when we tried to remove entitlements at any level in any shape or form. This is what makes Mitt such an idiot for even thinking he will be able to cut a single program without providing an opening for every greedy lawyer.
And completely off topic in case you didn't know the president has also violated his own campaign promise to leave Medical Marijuana dispensary regulation to the states. People who have no where else to turn for relief in the end stages of their cancer now will have no recourse to make the end of their lives more bearable. We as Americans have exactly the government we deserve.