tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22586833271238378502024-03-08T13:38:53.198-08:00Tom E. McCayTom E. McCayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03624386208156143998noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258683327123837850.post-77244770833369258652021-02-05T14:36:00.001-08:002021-03-18T18:03:24.581-07:00Dr. Gist speaks with Slurred-Science : a RESPONSE to Tulsa World Opinion<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<h3>RESPONSE to Tulsa World Opinion</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><u>Editorial: TPS Superintendent Deborah Gist fights back
against Gov. Kevin Stitt's attacks <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb.3, 2021</u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Gist speaks with Slurred-Science</h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deborah Gist’s public and consistent attack on Kevin Stitt
has nothing to do with education; I thought Gist was a school superintendent,
running about 10-25 % drop-out rate ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Silly teacher !!! Governing the State is for Governors !!!<br />
<br />
Superintendent Gist’s maternalistic nagging of Governor Stitt’s performance has
nothing to do with her chosen profession: School Government...and everything to
do with State politics.<br />
<br />
Dr. Gist does NOT redistribute the resources provided by the Oklahoma legislature,
with wise guidance or innovative solutions for her schools management.<br />
Instead, she maintains political wedges, foments anxiety with public displays
of anger; Then surveys the children for ideas.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br />
<br />
Through a colossal media promotion to label the Governor a bully, Dr. Gist has
lowered herself to the childish, rank-and-file, elementary school playground
drama of “name-calling” and “tattle-tail”.<br />
You know what they say; “Teachers learn from the children.”<br />
And we agree. <br />
<br />
Dr. Gist speaks with Slurred-Science when she claims: “We (have) one of the
highest COVID rates in the entire world.”<br />
Thus, It’s hard to calculate the totality of the inaccuracy associated with Dr.
Gist’s chronic hyperbole, to any degree of true precision.<br />
<br />
Superintendent Gist targets the TPS district and now threatens to infect the
entire State with bad decisions, inaccurate and uninformed public statements.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Its no wonder the Tulsa World Editorial Staff falls in-line
with the school superintendent, their writers probably all have a public school
education.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The progressive Tulsa World and the radical Dr. Gist BOTH
claim:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Stitt took a hands-off approach as the pandemic raged
in Oklahoma to extreme levels." <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When, in fact, March 15, 2020, Governor Stitt employed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=69837">21
O.S. §§ 1321.1-1321.11</a>, the "RIOT CONTROL AND PREVENTION ACT", to
rationalize his executive order…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That was just to start.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then, Nov. 16th 2020, the heavy-handed Governor dictated
"…all bars and restaurants to close at 11 p.m. No in-person service of
food or alcohol will be allowed after 11 p.m. except for curbside or drive-thru
windows."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Gist & Tulsa World…?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What do these two entities want ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More Governor Stitt control ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or… Less Governor Stitt control ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stitt's "hands-on" approach was so overreaching,
district court Judge Susan Stalling blocked his restaurant curfew.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Besides the immature, mixed-signals, Tulsa World cries out
with all things mutually exclusive : "The things [Governor Stitt] did and
refused to do made the pandemic worse in the state."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More girl's-club at recess :</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Deborah is rubber and Kevin is glue. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anything bad, bounces off her and sticks to you !!!"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br />
Apparently, the editors and the superintendent are unaware of the system of
governance we have in America.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tulsa World staff gushes a vicarious ignorance on behalf of
"cities and school districts".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not knowing the governor’s office has jurisdictional
boundaries. And that "cities and school districts" have their own governments.
And that they are designed to make decisions on their own.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To be noted; Tulsa World writers use the term,
"Unled", to start a sentence. (LOL)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to the myopic Tulsa World :</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Nearly all schools have gone to distance learning at
times due to outbreaks…"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instead of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being a
sycophantic cheerleader for the inefficacy of the federally funded public
schools, why doesn’t Tulsa World expose the fact that "distance
learning" was bought and paid for twenty-five years ago ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As documented by the "Technology Subcommittee Report
Bond Development Task Force Tulsa Public Schools September 8th , 1995."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because of promises made from TPS, to property owners and
tax-payers, all schools in the district should have been moving toward distance
learning, two decades ago.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1995, The community paid to retrofit TPS infra-structure
in order that students be able to connect to the Information Super Highway.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TPS instead, sold the 1995 upgraded buildings, out from
underneath the tax-payers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TPS circa 2020, could have used that investment for distance
learning.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TPS, again, has squandered the foresight of the community.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teacher shortages are the result of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mismanagement and failure of school
government.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Asleep-at-the-wheel Tulsa World pretends the COVID pandemic
created the obstacle of "teacher shortage". Editors at the Tulsa
World are so poorly read they missed :</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Five Things to Know About the Teacher
Shortage" </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline">by </span><span class="authorvcard">Jennifer
Palmer / oklahomawatch.org </span><span class="byline">/ </span><span class="posted-on">March 22, 2019</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="authorvcard">Palmer </span>states : "In
Oklahoma, 30,000 teachers have left the profession [since 2013] in the
past six years." That’s well before the pandemic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Further; The ideologues promoting the, pre-pandemic, 2018
teachers strike/walk-out, certainly weren't concerned with "Teacher
Shortage".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teacher shortages are the result of mismanagement and
failure of school government.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tulsa World writers imply public schools are frozen with
fear because :<br />
"No authoritative research exists for the best education model for a
pandemic."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As though, during an emergency, the teaching of children
relies on a "best education model". Does Dr. Gist believe her own
emergency ? Or does she have extra time to wait for a "best education
model" to fulfill her civil and contractual duty ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently, Tulsa World and Dr.Gist have access to authoritative
research showing the "Best State Governance Model" for Kevin Stitt,
during a pandemic…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tulsa World and Dr.Gist have championed a heavier-handed
state interference into our lives. Wishing for authoritarian-style control,
through more political restrictions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Its what they think "strong leaders" do.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is zero direct evidence that the inaction of TPS,
during the last year, has helped : </p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">keep
infection rates lower. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">saved
children.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">saved
students.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">saved
staff. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">saved
families.</li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">These fairy tale wishes are sycophantic statements from a
fawning press, who's writers have an "Editorial Crush" on a certain
public figure.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More likely Governor Stitt's prayer requests and a placebo
effect "saved lives".<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Gist did seem to contradict the "discouragements and
discord" from editors at Tulsa World by citing consistent declines in
Tulsa’s COVID-19 rates. Because there is more than "limited samples and
anecdotal evidence", to give her reason to think, students could return to
the classroom as soon as February 22.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to insulting the office and Governor Stitt
himself, Dr. Gist has continued to impugn Tulsa's parents, through media
campaigns, of starving their own children. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As though Little Debbie will save you from her presumed
parental neglect.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To the public's demise, TPS has chosen to make the cafeteria
its primary functioning relevance. NOT teaching elementary school education.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tulsa World editors ought to recognize the difference
between the term "educators" and the reality of handing out lunch rations
in a parking-lot drive-thru event. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are hard definitions, under difficult circumstances.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The obvious goal for Dr. Gist is to bring back TPS students,
as the Governor has been advising, while saving her public personae from
appearing to credit or agree with him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deborah; Let's keep our eyes on our own paper…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tom E. McCay, Tulsa.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Host, 3DPolitics</p>
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