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They say not to write a blog from a tired space, but I suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, so frankly, everything I do is from a tired space. Likely I'm not doing the greatest job of search engine optimization. But I know there are others like me. Passionate about life.
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Don’t Give Up
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Minimize the net amount of suffering in the world. What would everyone like for my 300th post?
Ryan Walters Projection Techniques: I’m Not Brainwashing, You are Brainwashing.
Another Ryan Walters post. I’ve exhausted my dopamine hits on this subject, but I think I have a few more posts in me before I move on to something else in my efforts to confuse the algorithm.
In the meanwhile, I have one more mental punch I feel justified in throwing.
In previous posts I shared the election of Walters in spite of a profoundly more qualified Republican candidate contending for the position that my fellow Republicans decided to ignore because, frankly, Oklahoma Republicans don’t think women are qualified to be in government. I know, I know…we voted for Mary F. Fallin, but everybody makes mistakes.
Below are the links to previous posts on this topic:
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/6037
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/6096
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/6120
And these are the sources for my information:
Let’s dig in.
I came to win, over and over again I take your life with a grin
I’ve been on a break for a bit. I may write more about that later depending on my whim and the reactions or lack thereof from the community. For now, I just wish to get out a short post about this politician. My theme is going to be that he is so used to winning, he doesn’t realize that you can’t always get what you want.
We’ve already discussed in another post how he won the primary over a highly qualified educator, and since he was the Republican, the Democrat had no chance. I know politics is a ruthless business (why do you think, besides growing up poor, I never got into it?), but the man is practicing some high class Left Coast Democrat style skullduggery that, if I respected him, I might actually be applauding.
Sadly, I don’t.
Channel five shares that “According to the newly filed lawsuits, the plaintiffs claim that their terminations on May 25 and May 26 were retaliatory and in violation of the First Amendment.
“They allege that Walters caused an email to be sent threatening to fire any OSDE employee if they “leaked” internal documents to the press. The email, which was allegedly prepared for and signed by Langston, ended by saying, “To recap, any employee found leaking information to the press will face immediate termination,” the lawsuit states.”
Channel 5 continues: “One lawsuit states that Walters fired the plaintiff on the evening of May 25 because she “supposedly shared confidential information (that ‘keep quiet’) email with the press.” The other claims the second plaintiff was fired on May 26 for sharing information with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office and with an Oklahoma state representative.”
If this is true, then essentially teachers are in the same dilemma that private employees for corporations have been in for a long time. You really don’t HAVE freedom of speech. Frankly, Congress, doesn’t HAVE to make any law abridging our right to free speech. As long as our companies can tell us what we are allowed and not allowed to say in order to keep a job, effectively that right is a thing of the past.
Channel 5 shares with us:
“Last week, Walters held a contentious board of education meeting on the same day that he threatened Oklahoma State Department of Education employees with termination if they leaked files and materials from the department. On that same day, education department employees received an email from Langston saying that any department caught leaking materials or communication from the department would be fired.
Langston seemed to acknowledge in a tweet that different versions of that email were sent to catch those leaking them to the media.”
Tired Blogger analysis: Walters is incompetent when it comes to leadership or administration, but he has read a Clancy novel or two. Clever to implement a canary trap in order to catch the “disloyal.” Why do I get the feeling someone else is calling the shots and writing the playbook?
Now let’s see what Oklahoma Watch has to say about all this:
“The state’s schools chief debuted a video Thursday depicting teacher unions as enemies and the state Education Department as students’ savior, escalating his incendiary rhetoric against teachers and their professional organizations.”
Earlier this month he called teachers’ unions “terrorist organizations” during a budget hearing at the state Capitol. Those comments drew a backlash and encouraged some to attend Thursday’s meeting and speak out.”
The five-minute video was shown during the Board of Education meeting and posted on the state Department of Education’s YouTube page. As of Friday morning, the video’s Youtube settings had been changed to private, making it unavailable. The dramatized production contains foreboding music interspersed clips of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ appearances on Fox News with soundbites of National Education Association President Becky Pringle, Vice President Kamala Harris and others.”
After watching the video and coupling it with some of the things I have learned about schools in other parts of the nation, I would likely by tempted to agree with Walters. I actually do believe that the federal levels of education are corrupt, and that they have an agenda to corrupt our children and weaken our nation. But do you notice what you don’t see much of in the video? Actual teachers from Oklahoma.
This is the video:
While I know this is abrupt, I’m going to end this post here. What are your thoughts? Is there a danger of Oklahoma schools perverting our children? Or are Oklahoma teachers grounded enough not to abuse the authority they have as teachers to guide our children with wisdom and respect? Comments welcome.
I won’t put a date on my next post. Life has been so painful and confusing lately; I don’t really know when the next one will be. There is more to say on this topic, but there are also fascinating things going on in Russia and Ukraine that your Tired Blogger had already given vague hints at in the past.
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day.
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