On the creation of a Hobson’s choice
A Hobson’s choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; “take it or leave it”. The phrase is said to originate from Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner at Cambridge, England. To rotate the use of his horses he offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door or taking none at all.
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Our governor, well known friend of the working man and public employees (for my out of state readers that’s sarcasm) has a new proposal, as the AP put it, to halt layoffs of junior teachers.from Wikipedia
Because of the unequal distribution of high and low seniority teachers in many districts, poorer schools often have a very large number of low seniority teachers, and when there is a large number of pink slips given out, these schools can be devastated. I’ve worked in many schools that have had this problem. It was part of the
