How About Just Teaching the Kids?
‘Puter hates unions. Particularly public sector unions. Most particularly teachers’ unions. Organizing against taxpayers, where taxpayers have no choice but to support the union (the government won’t let you take your tax money elsewhere) is fundamentally unfair, and should be illegal. The unions put their interests ahead of those they supposedly serve, and exist only to further their own ends.
In the latest example of teachers’ union shenanigans, the New York City local has been handing out Obama campaign buttons, and only Obama campaign buttons, and encouraging its members to wear them to school. Pictured above is the union’s president Randi Weingarten.
The New York State Department of Education has been clear on this issue: school boards have an affirmative duty to ensure school property is not used for political purposes. And it only makes sense. There’s no prohibition on teaching both sides of an issue, but where only one side is presented, and teachers are implicitly encouraged to use their positions of influence to turn an election on school property during school hours, such should and must be prohibited. Teachers are, and should be, free to support causes they want in their off time.
A hearty Bronx cheer to Ms. Weingarten and her ilk. They’ve made public education turn for the worse for their own selfish ends. If you agree, write to Ms. Weingarten at rweingarten@uft.org and tell her so.
Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.
’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.
The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.
His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.
He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.
Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.
‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.