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Union Teachers Stand, Divided Schools Fall

Posted by Lee Culpepper on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:03:40 AM
By Lee Culpepper - Staff Writer

Recently, I heard from an accomplished educator, a math teacher at an excellent charter school in Scottsdale, Arizona; his name is Thomas. Thomas agrees with many problems I address concerning education, but we don’t agree completely on teachers’ unions.

I assert that teachers’ unions inflict more harm than good, and Thomas concedes that unions are a problem, but he proposes the following: “While I agree with most of your argument, your portrayal of the unions is not entirely correct. Remember, this country was founded on the fledgling concept of ‘united we stand, divided we fall.’ Since management holds most of the power, labor needs to unite. Teacher pay is abysmal yet is much higher due to the unions. So, I think you are over simplifying the union’s conscious contribution to the problems you discuss.”

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Fearing No Child Left Behind by Lee Culpepper

Posted by Lee Culpepper on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:00:42 AM
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This is going to be embarrassing to admit. Having recently taught high school English for the past nine years, I should know a lot about No Child Left Behind, but I don’t. Its concept is clear. As a Marine I had learned the Corps never leaves fallen brothers behind. So, I appreciated this mentality in teaching. I never wasted time worrying over what many people seemed so anxious about. I couldn’t afford to worry; I had students to teach.
02 Apr 2007 by Editor
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Linking Fragile Toilet Paper to Teaching Teenage Girls by Lee Culpepper

Posted by Lee Culpepper on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:46:55 PM
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With the alarming percentage of ill-advised marriages and their subsequent breakups, I bet you’re asking yourself a reasonable question: “What can male teachers, Marine Corps leadership principles, and high school English classes do to help teenage girls avoid bad relationships and rash decisions to marry in the future? Okay, maybe you’re not, but you should be.
27 Mar 2007 by Editor
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The Edge by Lee Culpepper

Posted by Lee Culpepper on Friday, March 23, 2007 5:24:23 PM
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Every inspirational champion has it. Every genuine leader has it, too. Raw talent has less to do with it because the edge comes from confidence nurtured by two crucial factors: first, our knowing that we have prepared painstakingly for a challenge -- physically and mentally; and second, our learning that a competent, respected mentor believes in us. Coddling words of a merely appointed authority figure – the kind who often avoids his obligation to confront our faults – cannot produce this trademark self-assurance.
23 Mar 2007 by Editor
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Huckleberry Finn, “African-American” Jim, and Academic Achievement Scores by Lee Culpepper

Posted by Lee Culpepper on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:23:54 PM
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Twain’s 1884 classic opens with a warning to the readers who attempt to find a “motive, a moral, or a plot” to the story. The key word in the sentence is “attempting.” Clearly, those readers who fail to find all three elements are the mentally-encumbered morons to whom Twain refers, when he states he would just as well see them “prosecuted, banished, or shot.” To miss these literary elements in the book would require tremendous effort or just sheer idiocy.

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