“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.Hovering there I’ve chased the shouting wind alongand flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
“Up, up the long delirious burning blueI’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,where never lark, or even eagle, flew;and, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trodthe high untrespassed sanctity of space,put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
Teachers take too much grief from students, receive too little respect from administrators and have no time to plan for lessons, argued lawmakers on Tuesday, as Alabama considers a plan to codify a so-called “Teacher Bill of Rights.”
Those rights, ranging from the right to remove unruly students from the classroom to the right to be free of burdensome paperwork, are spelled out in the bill that worked its way through a legislative committee hearing on Tuesday.
“Teachers have to put up with a bunch of crap that, in my opinion, they shouldn’t have to put up with,” Rep. Kerry Rich, R-Albertville, one of the bill’s sponsor told the committee. Rich said he modeled the bill, HB214, after Louisiana’s Teacher Bill of Rights and consulted laws from other states, including California, Texas and Missouri.
“Teachers are, to my knowledge,” said Clint Daughtry, attorney for the Alabama Education Association, “the only group of college-educated professionals that I know of that run the risk on a daily basis of being hit, kicked, slapped, scratched, what have you.”
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Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, said this bill could help raise awareness of what teachers are dealing with on a daily basis.
I’m living near where Sam Patch made his most impressive jump, slipping the surly bonds briefly to the admiration of the crowd. He started in New Jersey and decided to make a career of it. When he jumped from the High Falls of Rochester, he didn’t get enough cash and resolved to do it again more impressively, but when he jumped off the platform that added a number of feet of altitude, something went wrong and he didn’t come up.
When his body was found, an autopsy determined that he’d died while still in the air, possibly a victim of a heart attack from shock or cold. There used to be a balcony on the remains of one of the buildings by the falls that was said to correspond roughly with the spot he jumped from, but the building’s no longer safe to be out on, as it slowly decides to slump off the cliff it’s on, and the balcony has been removed. It was a vertiginous place to stand: the floor was a metal grid with only distance and faraway riverbed beneath.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Not bad reasons, at that.
Gotta admire Winslow.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
For awhile it was fine, hearing the roar of the crowd,
For awhile it was mine, flying up over the clouds,
But then the sun melted my wings, now I’m on my knees.
To the glory of God,
Next time I fly it will be to the glory of God,
I want my life just to be to the glory of God
SpiritInterface over 4 years ago
“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.Hovering there I’ve chased the shouting wind alongand flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
“Up, up the long delirious burning blueI’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,where never lark, or even eagle, flew;and, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trodthe high untrespassed sanctity of space,put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
High FlightBy John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
sergioandrade Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Stop the world I want to get off.” Anthony Newley 1966
Silly Season over 4 years ago
(“All Politics are local” )
https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/alabama-law-would-mandate-respect-for-teachers.html
Teachers take too much grief from students, receive too little respect from administrators and have no time to plan for lessons, argued lawmakers on Tuesday, as Alabama considers a plan to codify a so-called “Teacher Bill of Rights.”
Those rights, ranging from the right to remove unruly students from the classroom to the right to be free of burdensome paperwork, are spelled out in the bill that worked its way through a legislative committee hearing on Tuesday.
“Teachers have to put up with a bunch of crap that, in my opinion, they shouldn’t have to put up with,” Rep. Kerry Rich, R-Albertville, one of the bill’s sponsor told the committee. Rich said he modeled the bill, HB214, after Louisiana’s Teacher Bill of Rights and consulted laws from other states, including California, Texas and Missouri.
“Teachers are, to my knowledge,” said Clint Daughtry, attorney for the Alabama Education Association, “the only group of college-educated professionals that I know of that run the risk on a daily basis of being hit, kicked, slapped, scratched, what have you.”
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Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, said this bill could help raise awareness of what teachers are dealing with on a daily basis.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Better to attempt greatness than simply give up before you even try.
thetroms over 4 years ago
OK, I understand your point. But what does it have to do with this ’toon?
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Wish I had a river… not quite apt, and Robin’s shtick, but it came to mind.
Kip Williams over 4 years ago
I’m living near where Sam Patch made his most impressive jump, slipping the surly bonds briefly to the admiration of the crowd. He started in New Jersey and decided to make a career of it. When he jumped from the High Falls of Rochester, he didn’t get enough cash and resolved to do it again more impressively, but when he jumped off the platform that added a number of feet of altitude, something went wrong and he didn’t come up.
When his body was found, an autopsy determined that he’d died while still in the air, possibly a victim of a heart attack from shock or cold. There used to be a balcony on the remains of one of the buildings by the falls that was said to correspond roughly with the spot he jumped from, but the building’s no longer safe to be out on, as it slowly decides to slump off the cliff it’s on, and the balcony has been removed. It was a vertiginous place to stand: the floor was a metal grid with only distance and faraway riverbed beneath.