My dad taught high school – writing, English and especially Speech – for close to forty years. He taught in two districts – Rugby and Jamestown, ND. It’s not hard to prove it; everyone in Jamestown either had dad, or their kids did, or their parents did. There were not a few two-generation families of students in that town.
Of course, you could ask him about it. He’ll probably tell you all you wanna hear. He’s kinda proud of the work he did. Justifiably so.
Any good teacher should be!
So yesterday, Sheila Kihne at Activist Next Door noted that her Freedom Of Information (FOI) request to the NYC School District came up with no record of a Mark B. Dayton having been employed there forty-odd years ago.
Now, it could be that the bureaucrats reponding to the FOI request did their perfunctory least to answer Sheila’s question. It could be that someone typed “Mark V. Dayton” instead of “Mark B. Dayton” into a computer. It could be, as a commenter on Sheila’s post noted, that the forty-year-old teacher records aren’t on the computer yet. It could be that, being civil service employees in the most sclerotic bureaucracy east of Chicago, they really don’t give a rat’s ass.
But Mark Dayton could settle this right now; we know he’s not above settling the things he wants to settle – he just released his NY teaching license, which at least proves he went to college and got certified. Yay!
That’s how easily he could shut down those who are asking the questions about his classroom time. It’d take about five seconds. Just tell the world – where did he teach, and when?
Because a teacher should be proud of the work they did.
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