News that makes you angry

[classicman]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

I got written up for sexual harassment once...

HA! I find that surprisingly easy to believe.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

I got written up for sexual harassment once...

It's a little late to ask but I'm curious. What did you do???

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by Tulip

It's a little late to ask but I'm curious. What did you do???

My manager was trying to get the bag out of a soap dispenser, but just couldn't get the button just right...
When another associate asked what he was doing, I responded "Molesting the soap dispenser."
Manager was not amused. (I still think its a pretty good joke)

[classicman]

No problem Pico...

Some know EXACTLY what this is like. I have seen this with a coworker once. I've also seen the the other side where it was total BS and done out of malice.

[Pico and ME]

Lol, Bruce, you really sound bitter.

...misogynistic, even.

I know there are some women who tart themselves up more than than is appropriate for work...and if they do so regularly then it would be difficult for them to prove that the attention they received wasn't wanted...but just looking pretty isn't enough to excuse boorishly crude behavior from the men they work with. At a bar, well yeah, you expect it, but professionalism should be expected at work.

[xoxoxoBruce]

So you wish to men into chicks with dicks.

[Pico and ME]

[Nirvana]

When I was in high school I regularly sexually harassed. I did not wear dresses or make up but every day for 2 years several different boys harassed me. It wasn't funny, I did not make it up and other female teachers saw it happen and still did nothing. Of course some male teachers thought it was funny. Are there laws preventing this from happening? I think it still goes on. Its not only a male female thing some people just suck and should therefore visit link

One of the boys that did this to me was a scum bag and I wasn't surprised when they found him shot 8 times behind the school several years after I forgot all about him.

[Lamplighter]

TV news this morning showe an Ohio mother sent to jail because she enrolled her child in the wrong school.
Of course, the Mom being Black and the school being better
than her assigned "neighborhood school" had nothing to do with it

A one-off event ? We are beyond racial bigotry ?

This is your Tea Party in action...
Washington Post
Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2011; 12:38 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. - The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity.
Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city.
And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves,
include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.

But over the past year, a new majority-Republican school board
backed by national tea party conservatives has set the district on a strikingly different course.
Pledging to "say no to the social engineers!" it has abolished the policy
behind one of the nation's most celebrated integration efforts.

The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives
into the business of shaping a public school system, and it has made Wake County
the center of a fierce debate over the principle first enshrined in the
Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education:
that diversity and quality education go hand in hand.

So far, the board shows few signs of shifting course.
Last month, it announced that Anthony J. Tata, former chief operating officer of the D.C. schools,
will replace a superintendent who resigned to protest the new board's intentions.
Tata, a retired general, names conservative commentator Glenn Beck and the
Tea Party Patriots among his "likes" on his Facebook page.

A small bit of history about this school district ...

Officials in Raleigh tried to head off that scenario.
As white flight hit in the 1970s, civic leaders merged the city and county into a single district.
And in 2000, they shifted from racial to economic integration,
adopting a goal that no school should have more than 40 percent of its students
qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, the proxy for poverty.

Why the NAACP continues as a viable organization:

The NAACP has filed a civil rights complaint arguing that 700 initial student transfers
the new board approved have already increased racial segregation,
violating laws that prohibit the use of federal funding for discriminatory purposes.
In recent weeks, federal education officials visited the county, the first step toward a possible investigation.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

This is your Tea Party in action...

I am certain you have specific evidence that the Tea Party had anything to do with this event. Please post so we can all review. Thanks.

Why the NAACP continues as a viable organization:

The NAACP is nothing more than another special interest group. They have long out lived their purpose, well other than for a nice club.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am certain you have specific evidence that the Tea Party had anything to do with this event.
Please post so we can all review. Thanks.

Isn't that the headline of my link ? (ibid)

The NAACP is nothing more than another special interest group.
They have long out lived their purpose, well other than for a nice club.

I am certain you have specific evidence that the NAACP
is nothing more than another special interest group,
and that they have long out lived their purpose,
well other than for a nice club.
Please post so we can all review. Thanks.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am certain you have specific evidence that the Tea Party had anything to do with this event. Please post so we can all review. Thanks.
<snip>

Google is your friend:

Should we dispute as fact that he spoke at a Tea Party Rally

John Tedesco speaks at Tea Party rally

Wake County school board member John Tedesco joined fellow conservatives
at today's Tea Party rally at the State Capitol to protest high taxes and big government.

Tedesco told ther crowd that the reason the new school board majority
got elected and voted against the diversity policy is
"because there's an army of people like you out here today who said enough."

Tedesco's appearance at the rally likely will feed into the*complaints of Raleigh FIST
(Fight Imperalism Stand Together), the socialist group that held a counter protest to the Tea Party event.
Some of the same people from Raleigh FIST were among those who protested at last month's school board meeting.

In a Wednesday press release, Raleigh FIST had focused on conservative businessman
Art Pope's involvement with Americans for Prosperity, which was heavily involved in the Tea Party movement.
"Americans for Prosperity’s director is none other than Art Pope,
one of the architects and chief funders of the right-wing coup
on the Wake County School Board that is trying to resegregate the schools,"
Raleigh FiST says in the press release. "Pope and his cohorts – including Robert Luddy,
the John Pope Foundation, and the Civitas Institute –
are united around a common agenda to privatize our education and inject their poisonous politics into our schools."

Read more: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed...#ixzz1CAueGF1M

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

TV news this morning showe an Ohio mother sent to jail because she enrolled her child in the wrong school.
Of course, the Mom being Black and the school being better
than her assigned "neighborhood school" had nothing to do with it

A one-off event ? We are beyond racial bigotry ?
<snip>

Here is a link to that event of the Ohio Mom being convicted of a felony
after sending her daughters to a better school that was not her assigned neighborhood school.

She has been sentenced to community service, but will not
be allowed to perform a service to the community in the future.

This qualifies for a "cut off your nose..." judgment.

Time
Ohio Mom Jailed for Sending Her Kids to a Better*School
By: Madison Gray

Williams-Bolar, 40, and her two children live in housing projects in Akron, Ohio.
For two years, she sent them to school in the Copley-Fairlawn district,
where her father lived, because it was a safer environment --
the high crime rate in her area drove her decision.

The suburban school district hired a private investigator to find their residential records
and it turned out she listed the children as living in that district, although they actually stayed with her.

Technically, that qualifies as a felony since she falsified records,
and Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced her to two concurrent five-year prison sentences.
She suspended the sentence, though, in favor of a 10-day jail sentence,
80 hours of community service and three years probation.

She had been working as a teaching assistant for special needs children
and earning a teaching degree, but since she is now a convicted felon,
under Ohio law she cannot earn that degree.

Both girls, now aged 16 and 12, attended schools in Copley-Fairlawn
from August 2006 to June 2008, but now attend school elsewhere,
according to the Akron Beacon-Journal.

[Bullitt]

This is right in my backyard. Not many people around here on her side. In effect, she stole tens of thousands of dollars in education from another school district. Ohio public school system funding is f'ed up and everyone knows it. This lady trying to cheat the system to get ahead while others play fair gains her little support amongst other area parents. Race had nothing to do with it. The other school system is better funded because it's a richer area (higher property taxes, main source of Ohio edu funding), and so she tried to cheat her way in and got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Simple as that. If she's willing to falsify records, I don't want her as a teacher in my school district to begin with. Good riddance.

[TheMercenary]

On the NAACP, just my opinion. Nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, and the Gov of Maine and I seem to agree.