Packer Girls

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Two Days Until the NFC Championship

Damn, I'm excited!

House votes to repeal health care law against long odds

This will never pass the Senate but, it was a campaign promise and they did what they said they'd do. Hell, even 3 Democrats joined in. Maybe they saw the writing on the wall.

Now get to work on our 14+ trillion dollar deficit.

Click here for the report from CNN.

School / Teacher Reform: Ideas from Around the Blogsphere

Change the way we evaluate Teachers Performance:

1. The principal should visit the teacher's classroom, at random, at least four times a year.
2. There should "peer" evaluations twice a year by fellow teachers.
3. Students should fill out a teacher evaluation form at the end of the school year or semester. These should be anonymous to protect the student.
4. The teacher should complete a self evaluation form.
5. Some small measure be given to test score improvement.

All of the above should be given a weighting factor and then the evaluators (at least two) would grade the teacher.

Change the way we do business:

1.Reinstatement of the QEO tied to revenue caps.
2.Remove health insurance carrier from collective bargaining.
3.Have employees pay their share of retirement benefits.
4.Allow the board to pay for performance, not for birthdays.
5.Eliminate "tenure or seniority" in elementary schools.
5.Allow school boards to provide service for state and federal mandates at the level they are funded.
6.Remove all caps on virtual schools.
7.Allow vouchers for any parent that wants to enroll their child in a non-public school.
8. NO 4k. 4 year old's do not belong in school.

Our children and property owners can no longer afford business as usual. It is time for some drastic changes from the top down.

Ideas? Thoughts?

President Obama not in Packers' corner

Just another reason not to like him...... Not really I have many friends that are Bears fans. I just don't like him.

Here's the link from ESPN Milwaukee.

Netflix Is Abandoning DVDs, Customers Who Prefer DVDs

Are you ready for streaming only? What about the strain it could bring to our broadband capacity?


Here's the link from Yahoo.

Is Berkeley Ready to Pay for Sex-Change Operations?

Liberals at their finest. There is absolutely no good argument argument for this.  

Bang it here for the most ridiculous news item of the day.

Principal-teacher conflict simmers at Glendale Elementary

Check out the article here from the WSJ. All you have to do is look at the rising test scores to see the impact Mickey Buhl has made in his 5 1/2 years as principal. Time for the complaining teachers to toughen up and realize the status quoe is no longer acceptable. I for one am sick and tired of the pissing and moaning coming from some teachers and the teachers unions. You work half the year at a full time salary with benefits those of us in the private sector could only dream of. What you have been doing isn't working, it's time to try something different if you don't like it move out of the for someone that does.   

Redemption?

Favre says the Pack are the team to beat left in the play-offs. He goes on to say he is rooting for them to win it all.

Read that here...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/news/story?id=6031703

Whether he is saying it because he is extended the proverbial olive branch or is just plain telling the truth, doesn't really matter at the end of the day when you figure he didn't have to say a word about it at all.

As for me...I believe that we are merely a Super Bowl win (i.e. a few weeks) from total forgiveness!

NFC Championship Game: Packers vs Bears

 

This is going to be good!