Ferguson, MO

[Spartanmack]

Minimum requirements for hire:
Candidates cannot enter into the Police Academy until they reach the age of 21 and may not enter after the age of 40.
60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) from an accredited college or university, or 3 years active duty, or one year active duty and 30 semester hours (45 quarter hours)
A valid Driver?s License
A valid FOID
Actual Resident of the City of Chicago
Permanent resident of the United States (Citizenship is NOT required)

add this to the list of things you need to show ID for...

 

[tomdalton22]

Where is that from? So you can be a cop with 60 semester hours of college course work (I think that's two years' worth?), OR "3 years active duty"...? Active duty in what?

I just cut and pasted it from the Chicago police dept website.

https://home.chicagopolice.org/bethechange/chicago-police-officer-recruitment/

Most of the time, active duty is referring to military service.

 

[Michchamp]

so you're own obviously biased research from one of the largest teacher's unions in the country is proving you're wrong. Even the NEA isn't saying teachers are being paid less. And yes, a 1.5% increase last year may be below inflation, but guess what, so was the average pay increase across the entire economy. According to the article you posted, the current offer on the table for Chicago teachers would make them among the highest paid teachers in the country - and the Chicago public school system is a massive failure, sounds like maybe they're overpaid and are about to become WAY overpaid. Of course the teachers are demanding more - they want a 5% annual increase for 5 years - inflation has been over 3% in just 4 of the last 20 years and hasn't been over 3% since 2011. Maybe the requested massive annual increases are to cover the cost of not commuting to work because they refuse to teach in person and are failing even more than they were before as a result.

don't forget, teachers only work about 9 months a year - so they work less, take far less risk and are paid way more than cops - and most of them, even a bunch of the lazy ones go and get some unnecessary and useless masters degree online so they automatically get a pay raise in accordance with their union contract.

Also, stop saying it's been widely reported and then throw in whatever opinion you want to pass off as fact. Education spending in America is going up, teachers salaries are going up. There isn't an epidemic of police brutality and murder, cops aren't racist and they're not summarily executing unarmed people - even the ones that are having a bad day.

I don't know why my research is "biased" I just googled teacher and police salaries, even though it has nothing to do with this topic.

You're the one who brought teachers up for no reason.

Look if you want to bitch and whine about teachers (yet AGAIN...) because you did bad in school 30 years ago or whatever, why not just start a thread about that, instead of jacking other threads?

 

[tinselwolverine]

I had posted this on the LeBron James thread, but it deserves to be here too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vgzUUwNKas

This guy will be talking on the John Phillips show on 790 AM radio Los Angeles, available worldwide on iHeartRadio, in the upcoming hour.

 

[Spartanmack]

I don't know why my research is "biased" I just googled teacher and police salaries, even though it has nothing to do with this topic.

You're the one who brought teachers up for no reason.

Look if you want to bitch and whine about teachers (yet AGAIN...) because you did bad in school 30 years ago or whatever, why not just start a thread about that, instead of jacking other threads?

your "research" on teachers salary is biased because it's produced by a teacher's union.

no, you brought up teachers, saying we pay them less than we pay cops. I brought up public education to point out what a hypocrite you are complaining that cops were overpaid and we were wasting money on policing based on results of murder cases going unsolved. So I asked you to apply that same logic to the money wasted on failing public education, which you're constantly defending and proposing throwing more money at them and at teachers without holding them accountable.

I'm not bitching and whining about teachers or "jacking" threads - I'm calling you a hypocrite but you're a little slow on the uptake to realize that so instead you're restarting a conversation you've already been pimp slapped and exposed for your ignorance and outright lies. And I did well in school, but I went to parochial school through 8th grade then public high school, which was ranked in the top 3 in the state when I was there.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Apparently the police aren?t the only thing the woke are trying to stop from targeting black people.

 

[Spartanmack]

Apparently the police aren?t the only thing the woke are trying to stop from targeting black people.

they've been trying to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars for years. It was a pretty hot topic around 2011. Back then as I recall the focus was on tobacco companies targeting minority communities as well as the argument that flavored tobacco products make them more palatable to kids, getting them addicted at an early age.

 

[tomdalton22]

I read that they are going to ban fried chicken because greasy food is a cause of heart disease.

"For decades, data have shown that the fried chicken industry has successfully and intentionally marketed fried chicken to African Americans and eating fried chicken is a major contributor to heart disease, cancer, and stroke ? three leading causes of death among African Americans," NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

 

[Spartanmack]

I read that they are going to ban fried chicken because greasy food is a cause of heart disease.

"For decades, data have shown that the fried chicken industry has successfully and intentionally marketed fried chicken to African Americans and eating fried chicken is a major contributor to heart disease, cancer, and stroke ? three leading causes of death among African Americans," NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

If they ban fried chicken, I'm moving to Canada - I love that stuff.

 

[Michchamp]

Whoa, we got a live one... Republitards come pick your boy up at the Cancel Culture Police Station:

Howard Zlotkin's class at Dickinson High School in Jersey City began Wednesday with a discussion on climate change before turning into an expletive-filled rant, NBC New York reported. It was not clear Friday what prompted the shift in the conversation.

"If you think I'm privileged then f--- you, because my daughter thinks I'm privileged and I don't speak to her," he said during the online class that was recorded and shared with the outlet.

At one point, he appears to give a student the middle finger as he says "f--- you."

He is also accused of making insensitive comments about George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

"I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f------ criminal and he got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn't comply and the bottom line is we make him a f------ hero," Zlotkin says.
​

Zlotkin is a public school teacher no less. I thought all public school teachers were woke gay democratic fascist communists, who enthusiastically brain wash kids into believing ideology?

 

[Spartanmack]

Whoa, we got a live one... Republitards come pick your boy up at the Cancel Culture Police Station:

Howard Zlotkin's class at Dickinson High School in Jersey City began Wednesday with a discussion on climate change before turning into an expletive-filled rant, NBC New York reported. It was not clear Friday what prompted the shift in the conversation.

"If you think I'm privileged then f--- you, because my daughter thinks I'm privileged and I don't speak to her," he said during the online class that was recorded and shared with the outlet.

At one point, he appears to give a student the middle finger as he says "f--- you."

He is also accused of making insensitive comments about George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

"I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f------ criminal and he got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn't comply and the bottom line is we make him a f------ hero," Zlotkin says.
​

Zlotkin is a public school teacher no less. I thought all public school teachers were woke gay democratic fascist communists, who enthusiastically brain wash kids into believing ideology?

Obviously, if one of them isn't, then none of them are. Thanks for debunking the myth.

 

[Michchamp]

Obviously, if one of them isn't, then none of them are. Thanks for debunking the myth.

By not falling for the "woke liberal communists islamofascist bullshit" he provides a really great example of how to behave for his students, right? I hate to see him get cancelled over this.

 

[byco42]

Yes, the guy was irresponsible and will likely be dismissed with no possibility of ever being employed as a teacher again. A bigger concern than this is the manner and method that kids are being ?educated? and, by this, I mean the construct itself. It was bad enough that they were sitting in rows in geometrically symmetrical rooms. Now they are staring into a computer screen with no connection but an electronic one.

Not implying cause-and-effect, but proposing that this method is less effective for learning, but incredibly efficient in monitoring.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Whoa, we got a live one... Republitards come pick your boy up at the Cancel Culture Police Station:

Howard Zlotkin's class at Dickinson High School in Jersey City began Wednesday with a discussion on climate change before turning into an expletive-filled rant, NBC New York reported. It was not clear Friday what prompted the shift in the conversation.

"If you think I'm privileged then f--- you, because my daughter thinks I'm privileged and I don't speak to her," he said during the online class that was recorded and shared with the outlet.

At one point, he appears to give a student the middle finger as he says "f--- you."

He is also accused of making insensitive comments about George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

"I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f------ criminal and he got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn't comply and the bottom line is we make him a f------ hero," Zlotkin says.
​

Zlotkin is a public school teacher no less. I thought all public school teachers were woke gay democratic fascist communists, who enthusiastically brain wash kids into believing ideology?

Yeah, I thought so too.

I guess we have one here who slipped through the cracks.

Anyway, straight to the re-education camp.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah, I thought so too.

I guess we have one here who slipped through the cracks.

Anyway, straight to the re-education camp.

His rant sounds a little like something zyxt would post. Maybe he was zyxt's old
high school teacher?

 

[Spartanmack]

By not falling for the "woke liberal communists islamofascist bullshit" he provides a really great example of how to behave for his students, right? I hate to see him get cancelled over this.

it's more than that - this one example isn't just proof that public education is not dominated by "woke gay democratic fascist communists" enthusiastically brain washing kids into believing ideology, it's proof that the public education system is an alt-right white supremacist indoctrination machine. This is important work you're doing - thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention, sunlight is the best antiseptic.

As for the institution of education, we need more teachers like this professor to combat this deeply entrenched alt-right culture in academia. This "hero" is probably outnumbered 10:1 by white supremacist extremists like the guy in your example.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch Chauvin being sentenced today.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch Chauvin being sentenced today.

22 years; will probably be out in 15.

 

[tomdalton22]

you knew they were going to make an example out of him.

 

[Michchamp]

you knew they were going to make an example out of him.

20 years is a lot for an unintentional manslaughter, but not a lot for murder.