StopTeacherStrikes.org announced this week that West Chester Area School Vice President Heidi Adsett has been named the vice president of the grassroots organization that aims to make education in the state "strike-free."
“We are thrilled to have Heidi join StopTeacherStrikes” said President Simon Campbell in a statement released this week. “Heidi is the only person on the West Chester Area School Board who has publicly taken a stand against the threat and use of teacher strikes and the continued practice of compulsory Union dues payments for the West Chester Area school district’s teachers and support staff employees, and her commitment to the cause is unrivaled in Chester County.”
Adsett has taken both flack and support from district parents and resident for statements made in several letters to the editor that were printed in the Daily Local.
In the statement released by StopTeacherStrikes Adsett says:
"As we know, teacher strikes, and the threat of strikes, serve to damage childrens’ education by forcing school board directors to divert scarce financial resources away from essential educational nitiatives for our children, and they impose a needlessly higher property tax burden on our homeowners. Every child in the West Chester Area School District deserves the legal right to a quality strike-free education and every taxpayer deserves to pay affordable property taxes. The commitment to my constituents to champion both these causes will take on a new level with my new advocacy role. In addition, I look forward to working with quality professional educators around Pennsylvania to ensure they have the right to freely choose the private organizations they wish to financially support.”
I would pay for the wings myself for the chance to meet some of these anonymous bloggers. With the exception of just a relatively few people, it appears like we all agree public sector employees should not be allowed to strike. Thanks to StopTeacherStrikes for educating all of us on this important topic. I'm learning a lot here. Congratulations Heidi on your new position. Keep up the good work.
Better include my definition of a financial pedophile before you waste your money Financial .. applicable to or relating to money. Pedophile .. Someone who molests children. Molest .. To harm another person.” What do you call someone who steals the financial future of your children and grandchildren, whether they are alive today or yet to be born? I call this person a financial pedophile.
Michigan's Proposal 2 Takes Back Power From Big Unions Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/120412-635698-michigan-voters-reject-collective-bargaining-mandate.htm#ixzz2E8zQXaBL
"NO TEACHER STRIKES"? Just think of Matt's campaign slogan ... "Put The "McKenzie Brakes" on teacher strikes.
Adsett, Heidi [Reply] [Reply All] [Forward] Actions To: Scanlon, James R; Murphy, Vince educ comm., Sent Items Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:18 PM I forgot to mention that I don't want to be chair of Education Committee. I'll be busy with other responsibilities. I suggest you see if Maria is still interested. Thanks! Heidi Looks like it was my choice.
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actually, you need mental attention .. taking two days to find the meaning of RINO? .. and then using inbred stupidity to turn the word into malignant ridicule against someone who works for no pay to truly help children who are being held hostage so of a gang of unionized thugs can have their strike threat? your shame is certainly justified.
As for my mental status: Are you a psychiatrist? If not, then please do not practice medicine without a license. That is illegal. As for your other ramblng rhetoric: Thereis no strike threat, there has not been a strike threat, and I am asking you to stop this abusive language. I have already contacted the publishers of this patch about your abusive language, and I know others have, too. It's time to contact them again.
Giving what I believe to be helpful advise, is in a different world than practicing medicine ... once more questioning your ability to be teaching any child. A self-described masters-degreed public school teacher crying to the publisher about freedom of expression must be quite puzzling to a journalist who is committed to that freedom .. wouldn't you think? PS .. I see that you have covered up your 8:33PM post with this one ... of course you have forgotten that everyone but yourself can still see that post .. which completely amplifies the frenetic ambiguity rolling around inside your head ... or maybe you were just posting under the influence of drugs, alcohol, whatever ... just saying.
I see that you are stalking me. If you must know, and obviously you do, I accidently deleted my 8:33 PM post before I had the chance to read and edit, so I retyped. The bottom line is that I am requesting that you keep your posts respectful even with the mass majority of us, IMO, who totally disagree with you and your, IMO, strange ramblings.
The DLN (a journal register organization) has a moderator and an editor - the moderator and myself do not agree on what is abuse and what is freedom of expression - The Daily times is also a journal register organization - however is completely open to freedom of expression, thus the infinitely higher comment numbers in the DT, and the drop off lately of comments in the DLN. You are welcome to use the little gray numbers to your hearts content, and I will continue to post the truth as I see it here on Patch.
As far as passing around passwords - I have no idea about that - but that sounds a bit crazed to me and I doubt its veracity. And honestly - how would such information make its way to you? I would question that highly regardless if it were even true. In any case I have contacted Mr. Speicher, I have an attorney who I am in contact with as well. What I choose to do with that conversation I have not yet decided. But please know, your imagined ideas that all who post here are the same person is that - imagined. Come on down to my school and ask Dr. Cognato if you can observe me teaching. Would love to have you in. I am proud of what I do, and welcome visitors any day. I think you will be also quite impressed by the caliber of the students. I am so very proud of all of them, as we all are. What awesome kids - smart, funny, engaged, and truly the best of the best. I am confident our nation will be in good hands if they are an indication of the future - which they truly are.
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Wow, Star. You sound rather defensive, and then paranoid. You might need to have your med levels upped. Please, for your sake, get to your psychiatrist.