Obama’s Call for a Cold Climate Society

OBAMA ON CLIMATE CHANGE: “WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR A MEETING OF THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY!”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/25/obama_on_climate_change_we_dont_have_time_for_a_meeting_of_the_flat_earth_society.html

PRESIDENT OBAMA: We’ve got to move beyond partisan politics on this issue. I want to be clear — I am willing to work with anybody — Republicans, Democrats, independents, libertarians, greens — anybody — to combat this threat on behalf of our kids. I am open to all sorts of new ideas, maybe better ideas, to make sure that we deal with climate change in a way that promotes jobs and growth.

Nobody has a monopoly on what is a very hard problem, but I don’t have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society. Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm. And ultimately, we will be judged as a people, and as a society, and as a country on where we go from here.

Comment: The blabbermouth continues to lead in his artful manner of making noise that sounds good. He announces he readily, fairly, and honestly works with others and will sacrifice profoundly. “I am open to ideas.” he jests. “No one has a monopoly on what is a very hard problem.” the con-artist continues.

My, how he loves his voice.

Terri Bonoff of Entrenched Interests, Complains about Her Entrenched Interests

Terri Bonhoff is a female…..actually a feminist rather than a female. She uses positive words feministly and such words are practiced and used frequently, regardless of honesty, knowledge, facts, seldom in need when Terri Bonoff lefty feminist passion is aroused.

Minnesota schools are teaching dumber and dumber because its teachers have been taught to be dumber and dumber. The culture is dumber and dumber. The Terri Bonhoffs have used the same words for a generation and more.

Feelings are in…..knowledge is out.

Do read this Bonhoff passage below, published through Lefty news, our StarTribune here in yesteryear’s Mill City where ignorance is defined as anyone who relies on factual knowledge when women’s feelings are handy nearby.

“Minnesota’s achievement gap is widening”……is quite and opener. Statistics indicate that the more human female the public schools are managed, achievement in knowledge accumulation collapses.

Feminist Bonhoff states: Currently, there are 43 new TFA teachers-in-training down in Tulsa, Okla. These teachers are slated to be in Minnesota classrooms this fall.

Wow….what evidence of teaching superiority! Slated for Minnesota are they? TFA teachers-in-training from Tulsa…..Wow, what an endorsement for excellence…..Wow, Terri, you must be so on if you say so!

So what? Terri makes her political noise stating….. “Placing obstacles before talented and committed new teachers is detrimental to our state’s future and cannot be tolerated.”

Where is the proof any of these 43 teachers is talented ….is committed?

Jillian Stockmo asserts “I want to teach with an attention to detail, to notice the little things that are important, like being able to recognize a sluggish student who didn’t eat breakfast or knowing that a simple word of encouragement can make a child feel that they matter. But most of all, I want to join Teach For America so I can address the reality of educational inequality …”…..so that is what Terri Bonhoff finds talented?

Terri has palsied with a nonDFLer to politic for her feelings.

TEACH FOR AMERICA DESERVES A CHANCE….

by Terri Bonhoff with Branden Petersen:

It’s not right to place obstacles before those taking a path into the profession!

(A Terri Bonhoff type sentence!)

Minnesota’s achievement gap is widening, and entrenched interests stand in the way of change. This was evidenced this month at a Board of Teaching hearing when the group waiver for the incoming class of Teach For America members was denied. Placing obstacles before talented and committed new teachers is detrimental to our state’s future and cannot be tolerated.

Two years ago, the Minnesota Legislature passed, and Gov. Mark Dayton signed, a bipartisan bill that provided an entry point for alternative teaching licensure in Minnesota. The Board of Teaching, entrusted with upholding this new law, showed contempt for it instead by denying TFA’s application.

Education Minnesota, the statewide teachers union, has publicly been against not only the 2011 law but, more specifically, Teach for America. Through strong lobbying efforts at the State Capitol, the union has gone to great lengths to thwart the ability of TFA to be part of the Minnesota blend of teachers. Several members of the Board of Teaching members prefaced their June 14 vote by stating: “I stand with Education Minnesota.”

Currently, there are 43 new TFA teachers-in-training down in Tulsa, Okla. These teachers are slated to be in Minnesota classrooms this fall.

Let us put faces to these aspiring teachers:

• Jillian Stockmo grew up in Minneapolis; attended Minneapolis South High School, where she was senior class president and captain of the soccer team, then went on to Amherst College. She chose to return to Minnesota to teach because this is where she wants to make her home and have an impact. Inspired by her father, a public schoolteacher and basketball coach, Jillian writes: “I want to teach with an attention to detail, to notice the little things that are important, like being able to recognize a sluggish student who didn’t eat breakfast or knowing that a simple word of encouragement can make a child feel that they matter. But most of all, I want to join Teach For America so I can address the reality of educational inequality …”

• Mia Clark is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, with a degree in psychology and a minor in neuroscience — she graduated last month with a 3.7 GPA. As a young girl, she was adopted by her grandmother and struggled in school. Mia says about her childhood situation: “I refused to let my zip code affect my learning.” She states that she hopes “to be a role model to all, but specifically to African-American students, because … the kids need to see someone who shares familiarity with them, so they are inspired to learn. My expectations for myself and the kids will be demanding. I want each student, every single day, to walk out of my classroom and be able to say that he or she is much better at math or science than they were the day before. I want every student to pass the state standards, but most importantly, my goal is to inspire a desire of hope, drive and love for learning in my students.”

Leaving these corps members, who are already training in Tulsa, without a path to begin in September is both reckless and grossly unfair to all parties involved. We think the surest way to alter the course we are on is to inform the public. We write this article in the hope that you will lend the power of your voice to this critical issue. Please join us in:

• Letting the members of the Board of Teaching know that we find their contempt for the new law and their attempt to thwart progress deplorable.

• Letting the Minnesota Department of Education know that we cannot tolerate this attempt to undermine the law.

• Asking Education Minnesota and our traditionally trained professionals to give these teachers a chance — to welcome and mentor them.

• Finally, in requesting that Gov. Dayton lead in this delicate but imperative impasse we face. The governor appointed this Board of Teaching, and he alone is responsible for ensuring that its members are enacting prostudent policies within the law.

Let us join together, with strength, and renew our commitment to every child, every family and every teacher.

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Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, and Branden Petersen, R-Andover, are members of the Minnesota Senate. Bonoff is chair of the Senate’s Higher Education/Workforce Development Committee.