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Defending Wisconsin | Recall Scott Walker #p2 #WIUNION #WEAREWI

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Defending Wisconsin | Recall Scott WalkerHOME | STAY INFORMED | VOLUNTEER | FORUM | MAILING LIST | PETITION | DONATION | VIDEO | CONTACT USwww.Facebook.com/DefendingWisconsinAs the citizens of Wisc...

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Will the Recall be Enough?

socialistalternative.org - The movement to recall Walker and his Republican goons is gaining momentum. Hundreds of thousands of workers and young people are looking towards the recall to strike back and teach corporate polit...

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Morning Quote: Michael Moore - Political Ruminations

politicalruminations.com - “America is NOT broke.” Michael Moore in Madison, Wisconsin on March 5, 2011: America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it’s not in your hand...

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Street Dogs ~ There is Power in a Union #wiunion #miunion #P2 #MadWi #Madunion

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CTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To Arrests | Progress Illinois #p2 #WIUNION

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To Arrests | Progress IllinoisCTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To ArrestsJackson Potter, a Little Village High School of Social Justice teacher and member of the Chicago Teachers...

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Which Side Are You On?

ashlandcurrent.com - I was proud to be part of two big demonstrations of democracy recently, one in Madison and one in Washburn (aka "Madison North").On Sat., Feb. 26, in Madison, we marched for workers' rights and for...

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What We Learned: Question Time

hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com - By Hotline Staff March 19, 2011 | 6:30 PMWhat we at The Hotline learned this week:Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) made some news by raising questions about the long-term wisdom of an American mi...

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Saturday Morning Wisconsin News Headlines

nbc15.com - Posted Saturday, March 19, 2011 --- 8:10 a.m. Here is the latest Wisconsin news from The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The hotly disputed collective bargaining bill that Republican Gov. Sco...

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Democurmudgeon: Biden chimes in on Union support in a big way. #wiunion

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Democurmudgeon: Biden chimes in on Union support in a big way.Biden chimes in on Union support in a big way. From Ed Schultz:The Walker/Luntz timeline very suspicious, possibly illegal!! I have to ...

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The story of "us" and "them"

onmilwaukee.com - No less than the future of the state hangs in the balance. As I said at the heat of the debate over President Barack Obama's campaign to reform the American health care system, history is messy whe...

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MN House Committee To Finalize Tax Bill In Rare Saturday Session | The UpTake theuptake.org - innesota Republican House members are rushing to meet their own newly imposed deadline for balancing Minnesota’s budget. The fiscal bill deadline is March 25th, which has forced the House Tax Commi... coopmike48

Recall fever hits WI

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Protesters continue to March in Madison for workers' rights today, but plenty of people are out collecting signatures to recall the eight Republican senators who voted against workers. If only thre...

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Counties, State Argue Over who Should Raise Taxes

kolotv.com - CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada's counties have complained loudly that their state overlords plan to steal tax revenue and force on them services provided by the state. Gov. Brian Sandoval's budget...

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Unions have led way for American workers

newsday.com - Content Preview Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here Published: March 18, 2011 6:23 PM Photo credit: AP | Wisconsin...

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Big Education Ape 3-19-11, Special AM #wiunion Edition #statesos #wearewi

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Newark crowd rallies against Senate Bill 5 | The Newark Advocate

newarkadvocate.com - NEWARK — When Glenn McGregor started teaching at Newark High School in 1972, public employees didn’t have collective bargaining rights.McGregor’s salary was so low he had to apply for food stamps, ...

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Rep. Knuth Opposes Attempt To Weaken MN Environmental Law | The UpTake #wiunion #wisolidarity

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Rep. Knuth Opposes Attempt To Weaken MN Environmental Law | The UpTakeRep. Knuth Opposes Attempt To Weaken MN Environmental Law Representative Kate Knuth (D-Fridley) is concerned about an attempt t...

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PAC says it wants to recall J.B. Van Hollen

jsonline.com - March 19, 2011 11:39 a.m. | Defending Wisconsin PAC, a political action committee formed for the purposes of recalling Gov. Scott Walker, has announced that it also plans to try to recall Atty. Gen...

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Striking the right bargain for Wisconsin

host.madison.com - SCOTT WALKER | governor of Wisconsin madison.com | | Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:30 am Imagine the outrage if government workers did not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. Co...

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AFL - News The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports

sundaygazettemail.com - CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia AFL-CIO is supporting House Speaker Rick Thompson in his bid for governor.The union announced its endorsement of the Wayne County Democrat on Saturday. Thomps...

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Necessary: Wisconsin recalls - JSOnline

jsonline.com - March 19, 2011 4:34 p.m. | Those who follow or practice politics sometimes get presented with a choice: Be for "good government" or for a desired or desirable outcome. But it's often a false choice...

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Wis. unions rush deals ahead of bargaining law

news.yahoo.com - By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Scott Bauer, Associated Press – Mon Mar 14, 9:40 pm ET MADISON, Wis. – School boards and local governments across Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with uni...

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Poor Minnesotans to be Barred from Carrying Cash

my.firedoglake.com - Are there no workhouses? Are there no poorhouses? Clearly, the GOP neighbors of Wisconsin’s Scott Walker intend to outdo him for meanness and humiliation. Republican legislators in Minnesota have i...

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Lieberman Jumps on Teacher Bashing Band Wagon

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/lieberman-jumps-on-teacher-bashing-band.html"; According to the CT Mirror, Joseph Lieberman is drafting legislation that would require states t...

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WI NAACP Youth Council joins Madison protest

milwaukeecourieronline.com - Home » Featured, News 19 March 2011 25 views No Comment Roz Harris,vice president MTEA ( Milwaukee Teachers Education Association) and her husband Wendell Harris are pictured with members of the St...

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The European workers' movement: dangers and challenges

links.org.au - In Portugal, November 2010 general strike called by the Communist Party-led CGTP and the Socialist Party-led UGT was massively supported, with 3 million strikers out of a workforce of 4.7 million. ...

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Wisconsin Republicans Know They Have A Fight On Their Hands With Recall Efforts « CAFFEINATED POLITICS #wiunion

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Republicans Know They Have A Fight On Their Hands With Recall Efforts « CAFFEINATED POLITICSWisconsin Republicans Know They Have A Fight On Their Hands With Recall EffortsMARCH 19, 2011by...

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Walker primps Power Plants with Wisconsin taxpayer money before No Bid clearance sale. What a deal.

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Evidently, “Walker’s wankers” in the legislature expect everybody in the state to be as dumbass backward at the silently stupid tea party deficit hawks, who still haven’t noticed their taxes being ...

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NYC MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG IS DETERMINED TO SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY ON TECHNOLOGY AND CONSULTANTS, NOT EDUCATION AND TEACHERS - ParentAdvocates.org

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NYC MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG IS DETERMINED TO SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY ON TECHNOLOGY AND CONSULTANTS, NOT EDUCATION AND TEACHERS

Government Lies, Corruption and Mismanagement | Posted 3/19/2011 at 11:27 PM

New Yorkers are furious, and give Bloomberg his worst ratings ever. Listen up, America! Juan Gonzalez, Daily News Reporter and new hero to most of New York City middle class, writes "New York City's private computer army keeps mushrooming under Mayor Bloomberg - and no one has any idea of its exact size." He also ended the reign of CityTime chief Joel Bondy with his report on the CityTime Scandal.

PHILADELPHIA TEACHER HOPE MOFFET WINS HER FIRST AMENDMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT

Current Events | Posted 3/19/2011 at 6:38 PM

The PFT filed a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia asking for injunctive relief in the case of Hope Moffett, an Audenried High School English teacher who has been outspoken about the conversion of Audenried to a charter school. The school district tried to fire her for giving tokens to students so that they could travel to a protest rally. “The suit is being filed on behalf of all PFT members to protect their right to speak freely, without fear of retaliation or intimidation by the district,” PFT President Jerry Jordan said. The school district agreed on March 18 to re-instate Ms. Moffett to her position on March 21. Hooray to the PFT for doing the right thing and putting at least the New York Teacher Union, the UFT, to shame. That's my opinion, Betsy Combier

DIANE RAVITCH ON WISCONSIN GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER'S LEGISLATION AGAINST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS OF TEACHERS

Government Lies, Corruption and Mismanagement | Posted 3/18/2011 at 11:12 AM

Ms. Ravitch writes that collective bargaining is a basic human right, as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed in 1948, declares it is: "It was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948. To be sure, the document is aspirational; it represents our highest ideals for human rights and dignity, not the realities of 1948 or 2011. It was drafted by a commission headed by Eleanor Roosevelt. Article 23, Section 4 says: "Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests." Others disagree, and say that being forced to pay Union dues for Unions to do nothing is extortion, and the right to choose to pay dues will change the do-nothing ideology of union leaders. I say: take away the right of judges to claim absolute and quasi- immunity, too, because this issue is about indemnification and the right to 'do wrong' and get away with it. Betsy Combier

Profile of a pink slip teacher in Oakland - Inside Bay Area

Profile of a pink slip teacher in Oakland - Inside Bay Area

Profile of a pink slip teacher in Oakland

By Katy Murphy
Oakland Tribune

Posted: 03/20/2011 12:00:00 AM PDT

Updated: 03/20/2011 04:14:28 AM PDTOAKLAND -- Until this month, it seemed that nothing could come between Lissette Averhoff and her fifth-graders at ACORN Woodland Elementary School -- not even a cancer diagnosis. In 2009, when her doctor insisted an elementary school was no place for someone with a compromised immune system, she taught her students to properly wash their hands. And found a new doctor.

In December, her principal nominated her for Oakland Teacher of the Year.

But Averhoff, 34, might not be back in the fall. She was one of 657 Oakland teachers, counselors, librarians and administrators to receive a layoff warning from the school district based on their seniority and type of credential they hold.

"It feels really good to come to work every day, and I can't imagine that not being

'You are a total bitch,' Supreme Court tensions boil over - JSOnline #wiunion

Supreme Court tensions boil over - JSOnline

Supreme Court tensions boil over

Prosser says he was goaded into insulting chief justice

Madison - As the deeply divided state Supreme Court wrestled over whether to force one member off criminal cases last year, Justice David Prosser exploded at Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson behind closed doors, calling her a "bitch" and threatening to "destroy" her.

The incident, revealed in interviews as well as e-mails between justices, shows fractures on the court run even deeper than what has been revealed in public sniping in recent years. Problems got so bad that justices on both sides described the court as dysfunctional, and Prosser and others suggested bringing in a third party for help, e-mails show.

Prosser acknowledged the incident recently and said he thought it was becoming public now in an attempt to hurt him politically. Prosser faces Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in the April 5 election.

He said the outburst came after Abrahamson took steps to undermine him politically and to embarrass him and other court conservatives.

"In the context of this, I said, 'You are a total bitch,' " Prosser said.

"I probably overreacted, but I think it was entirely warranted. . . . They (Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley) are masters at deliberately goading people into perhaps incautious statements. This is bullying and abuse of very, very long standing."

The Feb. 10, 2010, incident occurred as the court privately discussed

Koch OUT AM News | www.kochwatch.org

News | www.kochwatch.org

Franklin Roosevelt: Fireside Chat. 2nd Bill of Rights WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

Talking Points Memo: WI Attorney General To Appeal Ruling Against Anti-Union Law *March 18, 2011-* Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen (R) has quickly announced that the state will be appealing today's ruling from a Dane County judge, blocking the implementation of Gov. Scott Walker's (R) controversial anti-public employee ...

NYT: Judge’s Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin *March 18, 2011-* Efforts to shrink collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin were slowed on Friday when a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking a much-debated law from taking effect. The decision, issued by Judge ...

NYT: Judge’s Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin *March 18, 2011-* Efforts to shrink collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin were slowed on Friday when a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking a much-debated law from taking effect. The decision, issued by Judge ...

Greater WisComm: Judge David Prosser will be rubber stamp for Scott Walker WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

Talking Points Memo: Progressive Group's Ad Ties WI Supreme Court Justice To Scott Walker *March 18, 2011-* The political battlefield in Wisconsin has expanded beyond the recall efforts targeting legislators and, potentially, Gov. Scott Walker (R). A progressive issue advocacy group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee, is running a new ad ...

Crooks & Liars: War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash *March 18, 2011-* They're not just crazy, they're evil -- and un-Christian, should they have the audacity to claim otherwise. If only we could force them to live like this, they wouldn't last a week: St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Republicans are pushing ...

Think Progerss: Koch Brothers Pump More Money To Scott Brown *March 17, 2011-* The Koch petrochemical billionaires are continuing to bankroll Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Tea Party Republican who won Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat in a special election last year, campaign disclosure forms reveal. The Koch ...

Today’s Japan Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s Japan Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s Japan Update Here are the newest additions to Part Two of my “The Best…” list on the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (you can see Part One here): Nuclear concern: Understanding Japan’s nuclear crisis is an animation from The Associated Press. Inside Japan’s nuclear ...

“The world’s weirdest skyscrapers” “The world’s weirdest skyscrapers” is a slideshow from The Telegraph. I’m adding the link to The Best Sites To Learn About The World’s Tallest Buildings.

More Resources On Tsunamis Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Tsunamis(they would have to be modified to be made accessible to ELL’s): California’s tsunami threat is from The Los Angeles Times The Awesome Unpredictability of Tsunamis is from The Wall ...

The Difference Between “Curating,” “Aggregating” & “Creating” Earlier this week, Mashable had an post titled Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation. It makes a number of interesting points, particularly the fact that good content that’s created isn’t much use if no one is seeing it, and “curation” of ...

N.J. charter schools escape pay limit - NorthJersey.com

N.J. charter schools escape pay limit - NorthJersey.com

N.J. charter schools escape pay limit

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The director of a Teaneckcharter school with about 300 students was paid more than $200,000 last year. InEnglewood, the head of an even smaller charter school, with 200 students, earned $152,000 in public money for working part time.

Governor Christie has moved to cap the salaries of superintendents at much larger traditional public school districts, but has proposed no such ceiling on tax-supported charters.

To some, the exemption shows how charters — publicly funded but independently

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: HAMILTON HIGH STUDENTS WALK OUT TO PROTEST CUTS, TEACHER LAYOFF NOTICES + STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTEST LAYOFFS + more

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: HAMILTON HIGH STUDENTS WALK OUT TO PROTEST CUTS, TEACHER LAYOFF NOTICES + STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTEST LAYOFFS + more

HAMILTON HIGH STUDENTS WALK OUT TO PROTEST CUTS, TEACHER LAYOFF NOTICES + STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTEST LAYOFFS + more

Hamilton High School students walk out to protest cuts, teacher layoff notices

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March 18, 2011 | 11:25 am - At least 1,500 students at Hamilton High School walked out Friday morning to protest layoff notices being issued to some of their favorite teachers.

Students packed the sidewalks around the high school in a show of support for teachers and support staff who were among about 7,000 L.A. Unified School District employees to receive layoff notices recently as the district grappled with cutting its budget.

“It has been extremely peaceful,” district spokeswoman Ellen Morgan said of the protest.

The district said about 1,500 students participated in the demonstration; others doubled

NOT EXACTLY A CUT …BUT DELAYED SCHOOL PAYMENTS HAVE A COST

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Greg Lucas – California’s Capitol | http://bit.ly/fcpVSb March 17th, 2011 - Among the budget-related bills approved by the Legislature March 16 was one that postpones $5.2 billion in state payments to public schools. Since the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, the state has shorted public schools $18.6 billion that schools are owed under the formulas dictating annual state support. More than $6

Wisconsin: crucible for a new American left | John Nichols | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk #wiunion

Wisconsin: crucible for a new American left | John Nichols | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Wisconsin: crucible for a new American left

Though socialism has been written out of US history, this new movement is reconnecting with America's great radical tradition

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Protesters attend the rally for the returning Democratic senators at Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Photograph: Steve Apps/AP

Last Saturday, I pulled on a heavy jacket and a good pair of gloves and headed south of my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, to meet up with some farmers. Many of them had done their chores before dawn and then brought their tractors to the edge of our state's capital city.

It was cold and windy. We could barely hear my friend Joel Greeno, a dairy farmer from the far west of the state who had put out the call to members of the Family Farm Defenders and Wisconsin Farmers Union,

What’s Worth Teaching « Cooperative Catalyst

What’s Worth Teaching « Cooperative Catalyst

What’s Worth Teaching

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this is a cross-posting of a review of this book. The review original appeared at Education Review

Marion Brady is a retired educator. He has taught in K-12 and at the university level. He has written columns for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and guest-blogs for the Washington Post. He has authored textbooks. He wants to change American education far more radically than do those normally identified as “reformers.”

This new book is the culmination of many years of thought and work. In it, Brady focuses on what he believes is key to reforming our educational institutions, and that is the construction of our curricula. As he has done for many years, he reminds us that the current framework of school curricula into four main domains of Language, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies is a product of the Committee of Ten in 1892, of which he notes

Schools Matter: Barack and Arne Van Winkle

Schools Matter: Barack and Arne Van Winkle

Barack and Arne Van Winkle

by Jim Horn

As if shaken from an 8 year nap, the Secretary of Education and the President have suddenly awakened to the research that has been widely disseminated since 2003 by many including Bob Linn, then President of the American Education Research Association. In his Presidential Address entitled Accountability: Responsibility and Reasonable Expectation, Linn pointed out a year after NCLB passage that there was nothing reasonable or responsible about the accountability expectations of NCLB. In fact, Linn provided numerous charts and graphic details showing the folly of expecting 100% proficiency by 2014, and the Address was even published inEducational Researcher in 2003.

So if the Secretary has not been asleep at the wheel and elsewhere for the the past eight years, you might say he is just a few years behind in his professional reading. Of course, I am being facetious, for Arne Duncan, just

Department of Education wants principals to censor student speech | Dailycensored.com

Department of Education wants principals to censor student speech | Dailycensored.com

Department of Education wants principals to censor student speech

Written by Irene NorthEducationMar 19, 2011

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Under the guise of defeating bullying, the US Department of Education has stated that it wants school principals to censor student speech, particularly in the cafeteria and at online sites, such as Facebook. School principals are being threatened by the DOE with lawsuits if they do not adhere to what special interest groups deem to be harassment of students. Facebook is delighted to help while the National School Board Association is the only vocal opponent of such a measure.

The agency’s threats, which are delivered in a so-called “Dear Colleague” letter,” have the support of White House officials, including President Barack Obama, who held a Mar. 10 White House meeting to promote the initiative as a federal “anti-bullying” policy.

The letter says federal officials have reinterpreted the civil-rights laws that

Jersey Jazzman: "Mommy, why do people hate teachers?"

Jersey Jazzman: "Mommy, why do people hate teachers?"

"Mommy, why do people hate teachers?"

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Whoa:

When I picked up my first grader from school today, at five o'clock because I work late on Fridays, he told me a gut-wrenching tale of what happened today. Here is our conversation:

"Mom, you won't believe what happened today. [Jimmy] got in trouble because he was running around the room, and when [the teacher] told him to sit down, he said, 'My dad says I don't have to listen to you. He said teachers are stupid, lazy, and