Only a dude like the mayor of San Francisco could come up with something like this:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who became internationally known for his campaign a year ago to legalise gay marriage, said on Monday he considered wireless Internet access a fundamental right of all citizens.Wireless access can be seen a basic right that should be available not just to business professionals but also lower-income citizens. "This is a civil rights issue as much as anything else," Newsom said.
Isn't that special? Well, here are some more fundamental "rights" I'd like to see:
I'm sure I'll come up with more; in the meantime, what "rights" do you want?
"The right to outlaw teacher inservice days forever."
As a student, I'm thoroughly opposed to that "right" :)
Seriously though, why don't teachers like inservice days?
Posted by: PolitaKid at October 4, 2005 08:53 PMBecause the inservices are generally rehashed, renamed, useless dribble that had a different name years ago and is coming around again so some education consultants can make a few thousand bucks for one days work and district office types can shuffle more paper in order to 'try' to justify their higher paying jobs....That in a nutshell is why.....
Posted by: cardinals fan at October 4, 2005 09:12 PMLoved the list of your rights!!!!
I would like to add a few.....
The right to tell students in 'real words' how you feel when they ask you 'what is the date' when for the third time that day you have to repeat, 'its up on the board, where it has been for the last month you friggin lazy ner'do well moron!', The right to have the dolphins on national tv more often, and the right to take a day off from work to watch the cardinals win in the playoffs!
The right to get off scot-free after breaking the kneecaps and elbows of a certain nameless administrator who would rather eliminate two electives by cutting one competent teacher than eliminate one teacher from an elective that already has two teachers.
I'm totally with you on the in-service days. What a bunch of rehashed twaddle.
Posted by: Bronwen at October 4, 2005 10:13 PMI think every american deserves the right to vote in a primary election regardless of political affiliation. I know it sounds like it defeats the purpose, but wit so many people in the middle these days and so many more who don't bother to vote at all, wouldn't it be nice to have those who do care have a say in all of the candidates, not just those on the right or left?
I also think we should have the right to travel wherever we want provided the destination's government has no issue with it. (I'm hoping that one day I'll get to go to Cuba legally)
One more for my guy firends - the right to 2 bitches in every hand a bird in the pot or is that a bird and the pot?)
Posted by: Amie at October 5, 2005 01:39 PMPK: what cardinals fan and Bronwen said. I can honestly count on one hand the # of inservices that were worth going to. And take our inservice tomorrow, for instance -- "equity training," which is a fancy term for "Let's blame white teachers and society at large for the black-white achievement gap in schools."
That's why I took my first personal day of the year tomorrow. My tee time is 9:15! ;-)
Posted by: Hube at October 5, 2005 04:06 PMI see what you mean. I guess I always assumed that teachers looked forward to inservice days as a way to get rid of the kids for a day.
Posted by: PolitaKid at October 5, 2005 08:04 PMnope, teachers look forward to inservice days, the experienced teachers that is, as a chance to get rid of time with innane administrators...by taking a personal day without making lesson plans that is.......fish on!
Posted by: schmitt at October 6, 2005 10:26 PM