{"id":13059,"date":"2010-09-01T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:20:00","slug":"stolen-fervor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Fervor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dad taught high school – writing, English and especially Speech – for close to forty years. \u00a0He taught in two districts – Rugby and Jamestown, ND. \u00a0It’s not hard to prove it; everyone in Jamestown either had dad, or their kids did, or their parents did. \u00a0There were not a few two-generation families of students in that town.<\/p>\n

Of course, you could ask him about it. \u00a0He’ll probably tell you all you wanna hear. \u00a0He’s kinda proud of the work he did. \u00a0Justifiably so.<\/p>\n

Any good teacher should be!<\/p>\n

So yesterday, Sheila Kihne at Activist Next Door <\/em>noted that her Freedom Of Information (FOI) request to the NYC School District came up with no record<\/a> of a Mark B. Dayton having been employed there forty-odd years ago.<\/p>\n

Now, it could <\/em>be that the bureaucrats reponding to the FOI request did their perfunctory least to answer Sheila’s question. \u00a0It could <\/em>be that someone typed “Mark V. Dayton” instead of “Mark B. Dayton” into a computer. \u00a0It could be, as a commenter on Sheila’s post noted, that the forty-year-old teacher records aren’t on <\/em>the computer yet. \u00a0It could be that, being civil service employees in the most sclerotic bureaucracy east of Chicago, they really don’t give a rat’s ass.<\/p>\n

But Mark Dayton could settle this right now; we know he’s not above settling the things he wants <\/em>to settle – he just released his NY teaching license, which at least proves he went to college and got certified. \u00a0Yay!<\/p>\n

That’s how easily he could shut down those who are asking the questions about his classroom time. \u00a0It’d take about five seconds. \u00a0Just tell the world – where did he teach, and when?<\/p>\n

Because a teacher should be proud of the work they did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dad taught high school – writing, English and especially Speech – for close to forty years. \u00a0He taught in two districts – Rugby and Jamestown, ND. \u00a0It’s not hard to prove it; everyone in Jamestown either had dad, or their kids did, or their parents did. \u00a0There were not a few two-generation families of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,10],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-education","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47699,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/47699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}