Some folks spend their entire lives happily sucking up to authority. He's one of them.

He typically takes some column from NYT or WP and says a few words and posts it.

There used to be an easy page to get to about who has the most activity on TOP

And TK was there right behind meteorblades, as I recall

No point in looking for the page and giving more page views to TOP

I agree, he asserted that she would do better for the 20% (don't recall which group at this time and not going back there) and he did not describe how she is going to do it.

TK is a kind of pablum that far too many on DK wallow in

Years ago I thought he had some good stuff on education. I read him less and less and this campaign season he has gone over the deep end

He has lost critical ability skills

I said in a comment here a few weeks ago that a web site with lots of TK was on the way down

... the part about using critical thinking. And TK's response ... well, he's in his thing now, I guess.

I've always had mixed feelings about TK. He has written pieces that I was moved by and others that I was neutral about. Since the primaries, he has now written pieces I not only disagree with but oppose.

I haven't read his work since he "endorsed" Hillary. In that endorsement he said something about voting for her on education issues, which made no sense to me either then or now.

There was no need for me to read any further posts of his as I knew the context in which they would be written.

I like TK well enough but I disagree with and oppose what he's writing now.

That's democracy.

and apparently is a member in good standing of the liberal democratic cheering squad, which has over the years rewarded him with some form of recognition (a citation for best history teacher (?) or invitations to 'important' events), which seems to have encouraged his role as a Loyal Supporter of the citation/invitation givers.

over at TOP to become a Clinton hack. What pisses me off is he is a long time civil servant with a vested pension - so he'll be fine. But then he supports the very Democratic politicians that want to take that away from the young teachers coming up. These are the same politicians that want to change teaching from a profession into a McJob. But hey, he's got his right?

I thought there was still hope for him when I made this comment in one of his diaries a little more than a month ago. Unfortunately, I now consider him hopeless.

Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death teacherken Apr 24 · 09:18:21 PM
I must say, Teacher, that many years ago I used to look forward to your diaries related to peace and pedagogy and I respected you. I am also a retired teacher. I still respect you. And this is the first of your diaries that I have come into since you came out in support of Clinton. But this pap is below your dignity. The offense you describe here, if there is one, PALES in comparison to the policy issues that separate the candidates and especially those that threaten our environment. I want to see Hillary supporters defend her policy positions (if she has any) as they relate to poor people, or campaign financing, etc. and how they compare favorably with Bernie’s positions and how she (unlike Bernie, they suggest) will get those policies through Congress.

As I said in a comment earlier, “Teacher puts up a lot of statistics about how the people who voted in the early primaries voted but he put up nothing about THOSE WHO DIDN’T VOTE because there are no statistics – THEY DIDN’T VOTE.” After that a commenter suggested that I didn’t understand statistics. I am a mathematics teacher and I have taught statistics. Then another suggested that I must not understand polls. Well, what I do understand is, “there are lies, damned lies and then there is statistics.”

And even if the statement that Sanders made is ridiculous, which imho you did not prove, this diary serves no useful purpose and doesn’t disqualify him or deserve the pile on of hundreds of comments on how unfit he is as compared to Sec Clinton. She has made some snafus as well. So I am not going to respond to the subject of this diary other than to say that you did not prove your point with your statistics and your highlighting his statement is useless in the grand scheme of things.

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the guy that links other people's writing about stuff, prolifically?

i must be missing some respect-causing aspect of this person, because teacherken was never someone i read on orangewater.

articles, like Lenny Flank, or links to 'must-read' NYT editorials. Never knew there was any reason to respect him. I guess I never read the diaries themselves. Sorry for your 'loss'.

his inevitable droning on and on akin to nails sliding down a blackboard.

but he was never someone I read... it only took a few essays to understand he was only interested in himself ... and what does he have to say that is original? nothing.

I feel sure if I spoke to my students or their parents the way the diarist was spoken to, my contract would not be renewed.

[now I wonder where he read them]. I gave him cred back then. But grew weary of his writing style. Not that great a writer, it does not make an interesting review of someone else's writing. Always agreement. Until HRC reared up. I had stopped reading tk long before.

As others in this thread have mentioned, he is wont to read the New York Times to us, and I already read it myself. His more personal writing could have held some interest for me, if his writing style wasn't so self-important and verbose. Since I almost never read him, his Clinton advocacy doesn't mean much to me. I feel bad that I feel this way; a friend of mine is good friends with his wife, I've met them both IRL, and I certainly wish them well.

But every time I think my writing is getting too pompous or long-winded, I do a mental teacherken check.