TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI SCHOOL DISTRICT ABUZZ WITH TALK OF SUPERINTENDENT COVINGTON LOOKING AT A JOB IN ATLANTA!!!
Here's a bit of insight into why so many KCMSD teachers are rightfully pissed off.
SUPERINTENDENT COVINGTON AND SO MANY OTHER KCMSD "REFORMERS" HAVE ATTACKED THE TEACHERS UNION AND NOW THERE'S WIDESPREAD TALK OF COVINGTON TAKING A JOB IN ATLANTA!!!
The talk is so widespread that sooner, rather than later the Superintendent is going to have to make a statement on the subject. Probably on his way out of the door.
Developing . . .
Heard it. Doubt it.
ReplyDeleteIf he is he's smart he probability saw how screwed up Kansas city is and is saying I'm OUT of Here !!!!
ReplyDeleteKansas City will never be anything but flyover country.
Tony which reformers are attacking the Teachers Union? Publish names please?
ReplyDeleteLeave it to Tony to run another Union Hit piece against the Black Super Superintendent. And you wonder why we have some many issues between the Black community and Democratic party in Jackson County.
ReplyDeleteI heard it was south of Atlanta.
ReplyDeleteGeez, Tony. Are you bought and paid for by disgruntled teachers? They've been peddling this rumor (take your choice of Montgomery, Dallas, Detroit, and now Atlanta) all summer. It ain't true. This is how they undermine the reformer. Stop taking the bait. You're getting to big for your britches.
ReplyDeleteAgain Leave it to Tony to run another Union Hit piece against the Black Super Superintendent. And you wonder why we have some many issues between the Black community and Democratic party in Jackson County.
ReplyDeleteHow many times are we going put down Black Men trying to make a difference in this community? Wayne, Terry and now Covington....
I sure the anti- Airick West drum beat won't be too far behind.
ReplyDeleteTKC QUIZ:
ReplyDeleteQ: What's totally made up and wishful thinking on the part of a few bitter teachers who lost their jobs?
A: Handmaidens of corruption?
A: No, this made-up nonsense masquerading as a "rumor."
Theresa Garza-Ruiz and Kim George Carlos ran the "reform" campaign aimed at breaking the union.
ReplyDeleteTheresa and Kim just hate unions.
True DAT!
ReplyDeleteYou never stop looking for a job, today's employers are not loyal so why should you be? If I was him, I'd be looking.
ReplyDeleteThe school district is a joke and most of the board is also. And you wonder why crime is so rampant in KC.
I taught in the KCSD long ago. In 77 and 78.
ReplyDeleteSo weird.
Was never about anything but the fukin union.
So ignorant.
We were not building cars, Tony, we were making a better world.
Dumb fuck me--thats what I thought.
Its 1978 and I am at Blenheim, a school that is no longer in existance.
Before that I was employed on a part time basis at Southwest.
What a fukin joke.
I AM A TOTAL LIBERAL. But man we lost it there---(By the way R Nixon is responsible for most of the leveral shit we all complain aobut now. Just FYI Irony, u know).
White people bought into the whole guilt thing, and fucking KILLED the minorities.
Now no doubt, white people in history have hated Brown people, but WOW, --- feeling sorry for sins YOU DID NOT COMMIT has fucked Tony's bruthas hard to starboard.
The Teachers Union has KILLED, fucking KILLED minorites.
That "Protected Class" Tony is obsessed about.
My life- fyi - is nothing to be proud of. No pretenses. You all know I am a huge alchohoic.
I did do one thing, that I am proud of (Not counting military shit).
In 1978- I went to Blenhiem and tok over the 4th grade for 5 months.
The lesson plan shit (Which I was cognizant of by way of UMKC - my edu and Hist degree) was so fuckinstupid---I made those kids run at recess and did NOTHING but make them learn Multipication tables, long division, and I thaught those beautiful kids how to fuckin READ!!!
32 of them, I got to 30 of them.
I am proud of that. I remember one kids name- was very smart--Chancelor White---weird--never forgot him.
Fuck the teacher's union.
yo mama 9:26 pm. yo mama plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteFuck you Tony. I won that year. 1978. I won, the teacher's union lost.
ReplyDeleteThose kids to this day, can read and write.
I love unions, but the Teacher's Union provided a safe haven for less than stellar individuals.
Here is to Chancelor White. Hope the Teacher's union did not kill that kid off with rules, regulations and bullshit lesson plans that had no basis in reality.
Mr. Covington, IMO, I don't think you can win.
ReplyDeleteBut, this little respite, this breath, if only for a brief moment, of fresh air, it was worth it.
You are a stand up guy. Wish yo would have been here some years ago when there was still hope.
I have read everything I could find about you on the web and in the local fish wrap.
God bless you.
God bless you.
Please don't leave us.
You are the 300 at Thermopylae.
Our last hope Obi Wan.
When u leave, you will take with you the last reasonable reason to expect anything better for kids in the KCSD.
You are, the anti Cato Institute Report on the KCSD.
If you keep punching, get that ossified, trenchant, establishment out on their GODDAMN asses----the kids will learn.
Its that simple.
We, here is KC, Black, brown, white, yellow, wish you to metaphorically kill them with extreme predjudice.
Make a new world, please..
God bless you Mr. Covington.
God Bless you Chuck! And fuck tony and the lazy union Covington/change haters we've tried the union way far too long and run this district into the ground. ITS time for real change this man can bring change. I support him and I don't give a damn if no one gets a contract out of it. Yea tony I'm calling you out the Hispanic groups and Black groups have had their hands out demanding monies/contracts from the district for far too long. Its stops today with this super.
ReplyDeleteDr. Covington we wish you the best and yes I'm Black and I live east of Trost. You Knocked on my door a couple of weeks ago. It was hot as hell that day but you convinced me to give this shit one more chance. Thank you. And I will be walking my kids to the damn bus stop.
King Elementary Parent
Unions rock. John will kick the dust off this town in no time.
ReplyDeleteI remember writing in here not that long ago how to principals, one grade school and one high school, when I was there for background, no TV camera, showed me the files they have to keep to get rid if incompetent teachers, abusive shop teachers who had no business teaching.
ReplyDeletethat was around 1978 in another city. It was an NEA town. I have NEA awards, but they're just placques on the wall. The union is not good for kids, only good for pseudo government teachers.
We need merit pay. Money not based on steps and tenure.
I don't know how to get em out... bug killer I guess. They're like the BORG! Just an infestation of the entire public school system nationwide. And they're big contributors to democrats... which is a bummer because I too am a liberal.
And I've always felt the most racist think public education did was allow black children their dialect. I assume they don't correct children's English because it would be somehow discriminatory.
It's discriminatory NOT to! We need uniforms. Get rid of this hip hop crap. It's killing their culture. And causing them to kill each other!
Somebody needs to start a SCHOOL SUCKS website and publicly air complaints and rate teachers. Wouldn't hurt to have one for cops too!
Done right, the Internet could be a whole new ballgame!
I'm more than a little worried if that guy did teach those poor kids. If so, he might want to take your his class over again, to learn to write, spell, etc. for himself.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the KCMSD is screwed up. And this 'teacher' isn't helping the cause.
We need uniforms. Get rid of this hip hop crap. It's killing their culture. And causing them to kill each other!
ReplyDelete12:51 U R corrrect, my grammer and typos get whacked when I get a little apoplectic and type too fast with emotion.
ReplyDeleteSorry. :)
Can't EVER fucking sleep---btw--
ReplyDeleteI am checking everything I can find on A. West. IMO he is humpin his ass to make things better so far. Serious guy trying to make a difference.
In addition---IMO--
Tony's blog is the best.
There is obviously a divergence of opinion, but he just LETS IT FLY.
That is way 1st Amendment American.
NO CENSORSHIP.
The catharsis available here, for Aryan Nation, Black Muslim, tea Party, Nancy Pelosi, Pat Buchanon, Ann Coulter, K Oberman lovers is actually a beautiful thing.
Say what you want. Spit it out and some one with a different opinion will tell you why you are so fucked. In no uncertain terms.
Me, I think that, that nasty dialogue wiht warts, bumps, bruises and love and hate, is what will finally bring us to common ground.
Thanks Tony, fuck you and all that too, but thanks.
The real joke: The unelightened popoulation of Kansas City proper.
ReplyDeleteCovington is a black man who hates himself. To find some redemption in life, he has to put his foot on the necks of the poor and shut out.
He always wanted to be white!
here we go with the tired uncle to card. what took so long? Would loving being black mean that he allows the schools to wallow in shit cause of course real black folks allow failure? Give me a break! Covington is the man and is proud to be Black and a Prod member of Kappa Alpha Psi so please know what the hell your talking about when you try to play the played out uncle tom card.
ReplyDeleteSounds like this comment thread has run out of gas. Too bad. good school issues, but not related so much to Covington.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm remenescing about the righteous role of TELEVIOSION NEWS, 25 years ago, right about the time "A Nation at RISK" came out, saying about pubeducation what we're saying now, there was one main difference.
Schools were trying some things, middle schools, team teaching, trying hard to deliver special education AS DESIGNED. And TV stations were there. All had education reporters who actually knew about education, and the SCHOOLS LET THEM IN.
Today, schools and medicine do what private enterprise has always done. Cite privacy and just don't let them in. Hospitals were always more cautions and whenever ya went to a hospital, well you can visit any patient, but if you bring a photographer, well you had to have a 'minder' from the PR department.
Now, with HIPPA regulations, you can't find shit that isn't on the police blotter. They just don't yet you in!
Same with schools now. No coverage, just PR stories about how wonderful the schools are, (NOT) Their excuse is about privacy for students, but I'm more inclined to think they don't want parents to see how bad the school environment is today. I dont' think the community would like what it would see... especially at middle and high school level. The years kids get too big for their britches.
But how can we know?
TV's fired all their reporters so so they can't show us?
The Star's series on the schools is good. Did you read in that poor 14 year old girl in the KC Star? It's sad. She's so messed up she probably won't live to 18. All kids don't know what they don't know, but she's over to top. Told the reporter she wants to be a pediatrician. Clueless. Totally clueless.
ReplyDeleteI hope we can turn the inner city around, but when you read stuff like that, you wonder if it isn't impossible.
Is Clarence Thomas a Kappa too!
ReplyDeleteMy point, he is an uncle tom Kappa, and whatever other negro organization he has been affiliated with.
Calling responsible black people Uncle Tom's. Now that's really intelligent.
ReplyDeleteAre you implying that only white people can be educated and successful?
If a black man learns to speak proper English, gets an education and a job, marries to mother of his children and supports them, and doesn't walking around holding up his pants with one hand, is he an Uncle Tom?
Hope covington stays, rids Kc school district of union control and brings back basic education for our kids - reading, writing and arithmetic. Kids first, not administrators and their job security/paychecks without merit. 9 out if 10 Kc graduates need remedial courses is a ridiculous statistic. Whether poor, rich, black, white, etc, I would not send my kids to public school in Kc district. Give covington and airick w a chance only if they are willing to change the obvious.
ReplyDelete"The real joke: The unelightened popoulation of Kansas City proper.
ReplyDeleteCovington is a black man who hates himself. To find some redemption in life, he has to put his foot on the necks of the poor and shut out.
He always wanted to be white!"
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY.
TRYING TO GIVE POOR INNER CITY KIDS AN EDUCATION SO THAT THEY WON'T END UP HANGING AROUND ON THE STREET CORNERS, DOING DRUGS, HOLDING THEIR BAGGY PANTS UP AND GETTING SHOT @ AGE 18.
YEAH, THAT'S SURE PUTTING HIS FOOT ON THE NECKS OF THE POOR.
IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER TO LET THINGS KEEP GOING AS THEY ARE. BECAUSE AFTER ALL, POOR INNER CITY PEOPLE REALLY ARE INCAPABLE OF LEARNING AND BETTERING THEMSELVES. IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK?
11:43. You got that right!
ReplyDeleteCovington wants to the kids in the KCMSD to achieve and be successful!
ReplyDeleteWhy, that's torture! How dare he do such a thing!
He obviously always wanted to be white! Because only white people are really capable of getting an education!
What racist thinking!!!
Not one comment mentions parenting in this neverending debate between the state of schools and teachers. It is NOT solely up to the teacher in order to determine the potential success of a child. Our teachers are certainly not a reflection of an entire generation of kids either. A significant component, yes. But what about the role of a parent? Face it, parents are either too busy with work or simply do not want the responsiblity. Therefore they hand the "burden" over to public education and other government programs. Perhaps one day a deadbeat mother or father can finally rid themselves of their narcisstic/selfish intentions and actually become a positive influence in their child's life by discipline and teaching fundamental life skills. Just a thought!
ReplyDeleteHas Covington ever taught? I thought he went from being a prison guard to a counselor.
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