Morning Joe is doing an Education Special -- without educators!!

[immoderate]

He announced about a half dozen of his panel of commentators, like Jeb Bush, Bloomberg, Judd Gregg, Sharpton, yada yada. No one who's ever been inside a classroom! Edit to add: besides as a student.

--imm

[RKP5637]

1. Joe just makes up what he needs as he goes along. I sometimes watch, but

often I find his show pretty lame and uninformative.

[Cosmocat]

3. 1 minute in and he is playing the victim ...

"BAH, you NEVER see or hear about ALL the times republican elected officials get mean phone calls, I am confused, please tell me ..."

Mike Barnacle, playing the enabling role of bullied neighbor, goes off on a tangent about people yelling at waitresses in restaurants ... BOTH sides ... blah, blah ...

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I hope Sharpton backhands Jeb!

[meowomon]

4. I work at Leon County Jail

Where a couple of Jeb's kids stayed for a while.

[lutefisk]

11. Well, at least Jeb's children attended a public institution for a while.

That's more than enough street cred for an education chickenhawk.

[PCIntern]

5. Yeah, well I can see that, 'cause

TEACHERS BELONG TO TEACHERS' UNIONS!!!

Nothing lower than a Unionist...commie bastards..."when I was in the House, we sought out Unionists and crushed their skulls like eggshells. Hahahaha!"

Or Scummy-words to that effect...

:sarcasm: just in case someone goes apoplectic and thinks that I said this...

[Dappleganger]

6. I am so pissing mad at FL legislators right now...

and Jeb Bush is as much a part of them now as he was when he was governor. Our teachers are shitting nails with this new merit-based pay they are pushing through!!

Goodbye to gifted ESL teachers, inner-city teachers, teachers who go to very poor areas in the state just because they love the children and believe in them. WTH aren't the teachers going on strike??? As a parent I would damn sure stand out there with them on the picket lines and demand better!!!

[RKP5637]

9. I've had a number of friends that were exceptional teachers that retired early

they were so fed up with what teaching has become. And that is such a shame. They felt it has become all politics now rather than teaching students and helping them.

[The_Commonist]

7. I don't understand how anybody can watch that crap!

Shows like Joe's are DESIGNED to piss you off.
It's a major flank in the Divide and Conquer wars.
And SO MANY people here fall for it.
Coming here day after day after day to complain about it.

Suckers...

[conscious evolution]

10. +1

[JamesA1102]

8. Sharpton has been inside a classroom

and not as a student. He use to regularly visit public schools to lecture and talk to students.

[livetohike]

12. Oh yes Joe and Mika are such experts, she with her private

school education (and I don't know what type of education Joe received in Pensacola, or wherever he is from). He probably went to a "fine" Christian school and I'm sure his children are/weren't in public schools either.

[CTyankee]

13. She went to Madeira, a prep school for girls in McLean, VA and then on to Williams

College, a very preppy "little Ivy" college in MA.

[livetohike]

14. She was very insulated then. I don't recall hearing where she

is sending her kids to school, but as a former teacher, this wholesale bashing of public education grates on me.

[CTyankee]

16. I think they are REALLY after the teachers' union, pure and simple.

It's an old theme, been hearing it for YEARS from the right wing...

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. +1

[tonysam]

18. The bad thing is now there is a "Democrat" in the White House

who supports the same bullshit.

Teachers and public education, and in short kids, are fucked.

[zbdent]

15. must be auditioning for Faux ...

[EFerrari]

19. What an idiot he is.

LOL