User profile: vsestini

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Walt Rulffes and his cronies are the biggest 'flim flam' artists in history; this reading program is another wanton waste of time, teacher energy and our money.

What the hell is wrong with these 6 figure salaried clowns who call themsevles education adminsirators and laughingly 'educators' to begin with? How about teaching phonics, basic reading skills and allowing teachers the opportunity to do their job and be creative, innovative and inventive in is area?

They can't do that because the disrict philosophy today is to micromanage every aspect of what goes on in a classroom. Make every teacher a robot teaching exactly the same and following a mundane curriculum created by some idiot behind a desk who thinks he is a former master teacher and has the answers ... yeah, right!

Walt Rulffes is the head honcho for the district and has been leading it into this cesspool of disorganized, diseducation since he first signed his contract. He will soon retire with a hefty retirement including vacation pay, bonuses, a fat retirement. Best of all the ladies of the trustee board will award him with his name engraved for posterity on some new school... Now, that is cushy for the head Bozo of the largest financial business in Nevada.

Charlie Manson is mentally ill, he is physically deteriorating and is languishing in jail under a life,no parole sentence. Poor man has no real family and no one to care or love him. Maybe we should release him on his own recognizance to Judge Nancy Osterele..she has sooo much compassion...!!!

Maybe Charlie could then show Judge Nancy the same compassion he showed those that he is responsible for slaughtering years ago. Now, that would be justice and compassion carried out by Charlie M! How about having your throat slit and being disembowled after multiple stabbings by someone like Charlie M. I think that would work, don't you judge?

This situation resolved by the judge is not a case of compassion but another case of liberal justice from mush melon brains and confused mental state of our judges. Tell me why he could not be under house arrest and placed in the custody of his family, medical bills and all... Let them pay for his terminal illness...we had nothing to do with that...

Feeling sympathy for someone is one thing, but to circumevent the law under the guise of 'compassion' is a travesty. Maybe this man should not be confied to jail but to completely dismiss the case and laws under the guise of judicial compassion is plain old American Bull S***!!!!!

When my father was 93 and confined at home no one offered to buy him a sandwich let alone the wheel chair he needed to get around. I paid for it and I supported and cared for my father WITHOUT OUTSIDE HELP. This man's family should do the same thing whether he is physically and mentally decrepit or not. It is not our responsibility....let them pay for his care UNDER HOUSE ARREST!

All that I have written here is my opinion and I speak for no one else lest someone out there think I am overplaying my role as a retired, tired old fart of a school teacher who should sit quietly in his recliner watch Archie Bunker.

TO r4AKESE: I agree with your premise on nonproductive, lazy, incompetent teachers. However,I agree withyour statement "We teachers ought to strike these selfish individuals from our midst...". But the remaining statement "...rather than walkout on our students in a union authorized strike" ... bothers me a lot.

Advocating no strike under any circumstances is ridiculous and is exactly what the Nevada law already does. That philosophy has stymed education in this district; never striking for fear of harming students is what is keeping teachers under the thumb of CCSD administrators; "we can't strike we are professional, remember the kids."

In other political entities doctors,nurses teachers, police and firefighters and other public employees have all conducted labor strikes for causes such as better wages, benefits and improved working conditions. Why are teachers held to such higher standards of expectation while receiving such low respect, regard and salary earnings? Even ball players and umpires making millions every year have had their own strikes, but CCSD teachers cannot, ever? That is self-defeating professional nonsense.

That is NEA propoganda B**S*** and teachers have swallowed it for too many decades. You can't, in the final anaysis, cash a check for food and other bills that reads, "For professionalism, care, concern and services rendered to students"... instead of X-amount of dollars." Try cashing such a check at Walmart or the local gas station and see how much your professionalism and dedication buys you today.