Reply #60: I'm really afraid of this proposition. All the public hears is "5 years" [View All]

[Baconfoot]

All the public is hearing on this is that the time until you are eligible for tenure is increasing from two to five years. But that's NOT all this proposition would do, as you know.

I have started calling this election the... you'll have to pardon me for a moment but I have been calling it the... Fudge Public Education election because of propositions 74, 75 and 76.

I can't tell which of 73-76 I hate the most. Right now I am leaning towards 76 (that's the School Funding Limits one which effectively takes money away from schools but which also hysterically grants the Governor the power "under specified circumstances, to reduce appropriations of Governor's choosing, including employee compensation") but 73 also has a special place in my heart (that's the one which inserts language into the State Constitution defining abortion as "causing 'death of the unborn child, a child CONCEIVED but not yet born'")

73 is not just about parental notification anymore than 74 it just about increasing the number of years before a teacher is eligible for "tenure."