Tue 21 Aug 2007
My doctor said it might be my citizen journalism
Posted by shelbinator under Culture, Juvenile, Oniony, Politics
I want to talk to you about a problem.
A little problem we call ED.
ED is primarily a personal responsibility. But this is an American problem that affects us all. We are all responsible for our ED. And the future of our nation depends on whether we can come together to meet this challenge head on.
If you have ED or think you may have it, you are not alone. ED affects millions of people in the United States. But sometimes, the state of our ED makes it hard to, you know, finish the job. We hope that our presidential candidates will offer genuine leadership on ED rather than empty rhetoric and tell voters how they intend to strengthen America so we can handle ED appropriately. And you can do something about it.
Me, I got ED from an email. (Damn, you get one lousy debate press pass, and suddenly, your equipment is all junked up. With issue-PAC spam.)
Here is the latest news and information from the EDin08 Campaign. Below is the recent EDin08 Blog Posts, Press Releases, and Mentions in the Media, feel free to blog and post any of the information below. If you would like to not be on this Press List just email me and let me know.
We would also like to send you an EDin08 Tshirt.
Just let us know your Address and Shirt Size and well send one over.
Oh. Yeah. Right. Because what every thirty-something bachelor wants to wear around town is this t-shirt:
Now I love the education lobby, particularly for bringing me a Ghostbuster to give props to my candidate, but come on, even the anti-AIDS crowd has better, more fashionable marketing. I’m sorry, Cialis beat you to the acronym; get a new slogan for us to wear so we can, um, rise to the occasion.
And yes, for the record: the EDin08 education lobby publicity email tonight contained one split infinitive, one run-on sentence, one subject-predicate mismatch, and one missing apostrophe. They must be pretty hard up for communications volunteers.
Oh and hell yes I am still asking for a free shirt. This could be vlogging gold.
August 21st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
oh. my. god. you’re not even kidding. i mean seriously, these are educators right? the group consists of SMART people, or at least you would think that it should! sorry your junk is all junke up. this post is too funny, and you know what? i want a shirt, too!
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 am
I’m not sure I’d agree with the assumption that a group of educators consists of smart people. You know what they say: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
Can’t expect this to change until we start paying teachers real money and convinving critical thinkers and go-getters that it’s a worth-while career. Although, the summers off part is pretty appealing.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I cannot even believe that anyone is still using that line “Those who can…”
I agree that paying teachers more should be a high priority but to suggest that teachers are not critical thinkers or that teaching is not a worthwhile career is just BS. Have you tried managing 30+ people with a wide variety of learning, social, and emotional skills; little to no support for education at home; and often sent to school hungry?
And the “summers off” business is lame. At most teachers get about six weeks and the ones I know spend the lions share of that at their schools cleaning up the previous years’ messes and preparing for the coming year.
So, yeah, they should be more careful about their communication but that is hardly any reason to paint teaching with that old adage…
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Oh, and by the way, Shelby - excellent post. Very witty.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 am
Well, D, I’ll just have to see if I can get that ED shirt in a babydoll tank or something. Then we can get some puffy-pens and add, like, “Cure for” above the logo.
And Kate, have I told you about Joe Biden’s plan for teacher pay? C’mere, siddown, lemme tell ya….
Thanks, Catherine. I try. But it’s just too easy when ED sets it up so nice like that.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
CatherineAtlanta, I so agree with you on the teachers having to deal w/varied personalities, issues, baggage each child carries with them wherever they go. My son is 6 and has just started 1st grade. I get him to bed at 8:30 every night, make sure he eats something every morning (even if it is just chocolate milk and yogurt because he doesn’t like mommy’s waffles -too crispy- but the bus is coming SOON and damn it, child you will eat SOMETHING before you leave this house!) There are days I’ll get notes home from his teacher that he just *refused* to do his work in class b/c he wanted to do it at home w/mom. If he’s bucking the system this hard at 6 what the heck am I in for when he’s 16? Any teacher that can deal w/kids like mine is worth their weight in gold….any teacher that can deal with kids like mine and WORSE (because come on he can’t be the worst in class, can he?!) is a saint in my eyes.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
oh, and shelby…you would look GREAT in a puffy painted baby doll tank!! ;)
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Just testing the bleedin’ comments post function.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Oh my.
You know, there’s a crying need for a Professional Outsider who would make big bucks sitting in on meetings and saying, “You realize that this could be interpreted the wrong way?”
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