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Governor Chris Christie has called for the resignation of Vincent Giordano after he commented that “life’s not always fair” when arguing against vouchers.
In an argument against the implementation of a state school vouchers system, New Jersey Education Association Executive Director Vincent Giordano was recorded to have remarked “life’s not always fair”, in response to the call for a system that would see more poor students sent to private schools.
Christie, who has clashed repeatedly with the union, said that the remark was “outrageous” and has called for Vincent Giordano, whose own salary tops $300,000, to resign, reports Fox News.
In an interview over the weekend, Giordano answered a question on why low-income families should not have the same options as other families when their child is in a failing school.
He said:
“Those parents should have exactly the same options and they do. We don’t say that you can’t take your kid out of the public school. We would argue not and we would say ‘let’s work more closely and more harmoniously.”
When asked how families could afford to finance a move from public to private schooling, Giordano said:
“Well, you know, life’s not always fair and I’m sorry about that.”
Giordano responded through a NJEA statement, saying:
“Governor Christie has stooped to a new low, even by his own standards. In his personal attack on me, NJEA president Barbara Keshishian and the New Jersey Education Association, he has demonstrated that there is no limit to his willingness to twist, distort and misrepresent the facts in a situation to satisfy his voracious appetite for political vengeance.
“I have no intention of resigning. If he thinks he’s going to bully me like he bullies everyone else, he doesn’t understand who I am, or how deeply I care about the work I do. I have too much important work to do protecting New Jersey’s public schools from the disastrous education policies of this governor. In just two years he has done more damage to education than I have seen in nearly 50 years of service as a teacher and advocate for public schools.”
Giordano said the NJEA supports better funding for urban schools.
“I am proud of my record and NJEA’s record of standing up for innovation in public education on issues ranging from charter schools to magnet schools to intradistrict school choice to Renaissance schools. And I do not apologize for our strong stand against efforts to strip resources from struggling urban schools to subsidize private school operators’ profits, as the voucher bill advocated by the Governor would.”
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This is the definition of tone-deaf. Wow.
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Yes, it’s ok when life is unfair for others, but of course not when it’s unfair to yourselves. How can someone who makes over $300k in salary then complain that teachers are being mistreatd? Unbelievable.
“. How can someone who makes over $300k in salary then complain that teachers are being mistreatd? ”
Because most teachers don’t make anywhere near to $300k/year and it’s his job to stand up for them against the likes of Christie and individuals like yourself who only want to destroy middle-class teachers and public education.
so the many is the president of the NJEA an organization that represents a huge % of the over 100,000 certified teachers in NJ.
how much should he make? because for all the money he does make (and i do believe that is a large amount of money) why doesn’t he deserve that?
I refuse to listen to complaints of a group that can afford to pay more than one person over $150k in salary to lobby for them. Before you start pleading poverty, maybe consider trimming union expenses.
he doesn’t just lobby for them, he manages the entire organization, directs initiatives, manages benefits.
he isn’t a lobbyist, he is a CEO.
The United States can afford 670 BILLON for defense spending (as per DoD) Before you start pleading “no money for teachers”, maybe consider trimming real-world expenses
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Yes, Matt, the defense spending does seem a bit out of whack, but then again, as someone important once said, life isn’t fair.
In the 1971 book Global Ecology edteid and written by John P Holdren, and Paul Erlich, (who were teaching at UCBerkeley and Stanford) an essay considers population control measures: doctoring our drinking water, developing multi-year mandatory birth control, childbearing licenses and forced abortion. The article states that following the model in communist countries of women in the workforce, government should encourage women toward careers because they will delay childbearing and limit themselves to one or two because of their career interest abortion should be free and legal. Within three years two-wage earning couples had so inflated the cost of homes in Marin County that monthly averaged county property taxes became higher than people’s house payments. This economic pressure lead to the passage of the infamous Proposition 13 which limited government’s ability to raise property taxes. New York financial houses responded to a shortage of capital by buying mortgages from banks which propelled home construction for the next thirty years.In the late seventies into the eighties, women’s magazines and television news were saturated with articles headlined, “Biological Timebomb,” referring to the aging reproductive systems of women in the workforce; these were succeeded by “Daycare,” “Latchkey” and “Infertility” articles. Co-incident with women’s rise in the workforce, and a spate of commercial child-rearing services such as daycare, after school care, and homework storefronts. Never-the-less SAT scores flat-lined, as have virtually every other measure of academic progress in our country. While parents succumbed to work pressure and embraced the marketplace enterprised solutions to hands-on childrearing, teachers filled the void of handing on of values, ethics, and national pride that once sustained our vast and diverse society by touting destructive social contracts encouraging early sexual experience, deconstruction of virtues, and taught a burdensome legacy of national shame to our young men (of all racial, ethinic and social backgrounds) that has suppressed them, and their achievement. Teachers unions have supported the legislative mandates that have forced age inappropriate sex education, history and social curriculum on the classroom.The co-opting of America for the sake of population control has dropped our national birthrate below the two child replacement level while the birthrate in cultures and communities around the world remains higher, with an averge of six children per Islamic household. Population control has not caused a decline in the population of the United States. It has contributed to financial markets manipulating monetary policy and mortgage availability, consumerism, declining academic achievement, and social instability.One of the architects of this debacle is the ‘Science Czar’ in the White House, John P Holdren. Is it any wonder our nation has declined so far, so fast in the last three years?
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