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• On the article Poll: Who's to Blame for 'Sequester'?

  

  Becky Werner

  5:22 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013

  You need to stay off the blogs or MSNBC. You have zero facts correct.

• On the article Poll: Who's to Blame for 'Sequester'?

  

  Becky Werner

  5:21 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013

  You really have your facts wrong. The GOP got a balanced budget and surplus out of Clinton when they shut the government down. It was the GOP that got it done, not the Democrats. This President has taken our debt to a level that becomes beyond comprehension of how we will ever get out of this. He is to blame - plain and simple. And wants to spend more. He wants to be all things to all people and is willing to take this country down in the process. He is the worse President in modern time by benchmark. If you benchmark his integrity and the corruption of this administration it is Nixon. If you benchmark the skill and competency, it is Carter and both of these men were considered the "worse." So we now have an administration that is worse than Nixon and worse than Carter. And we should vote Democrat? And I AM a democrat but I am so saddened by what he has done to this country. And as for the sequester - this was the incompetence I'm talking about. What leader would EVER sign off on this? This President is a joke.

• On the article Palatine Blockbuster Video Closing Sunday

  Becky Werner

  3:53 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013

  I always feel bad for the folks who work at closed down places. No jobs to replace the ones they are losing.

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• On the article Patch Flash: IL Senate Says Yes to Gay Marriage Bill

  

  Becky Werner

  3:51 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013

  This state is in total chaos. Politicians will spend unending taxpayer money to buy votes. There is no one representing those who disagree as only the corrupt are represented in this state. We are a national joke and disgrace.

• On the article Letter to the Editor: D15 Community Communication Forum

  

  Becky Werner

  2:31 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

  I am sick of comments like ExPalatineRes posted. Teachers are only in the classroom 5 1/2 hours a day, 8 months a year. They're supposed to take work home because they don't put in a full 8 during the day. They complain about an extra half hour to "enrich" themselves? No company gives you company time to "enrich" yourself. I am sorry, but they do not give the hours commensurate to their pay. They don't know what hard work is. Most "professionals" are doing emails on the train and planning their day at 5 a.m. Teachers want to be paid like professionals but act like hourly janitors. Professionals do whatever it takes to be good at their jobs. That mean an occasional 12 hour day, coming in at 6 a.m. for meetings, doing emails and planning after the kids are in bed. It is at the point now where most of these teachers are so out of touch with hard work they couldn't make it in the real world. And now, they want to take 40 minutes a week from the kids and give it back to them in 10 minute increments? If you can get SO MUCH done in 10 minutes, why are the teachers get "enriched" in 10 minute increments? Do you think the superintendent breaks his staff meeting into 10 minute blocks? Or the board meetings in 10 minute blocks. But it's OK for a 7 year old to try to learn in an extra 10 minutes, but not an adult because the teachers and union DEMANDS. This current batch of teachers and the union are ruining our education system, our district and our community.

• On the article UPDATED: District 15 to Implement New Schedule for 2013-2014 School Year

  

  Becky Werner

  5:49 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013

  I hope this is sarcastic because again, this is what professionals do. They work more than 5 hours a day, most a minimum of 8 at the office, 2 at home. They have their laptop at home as well as their Blackberry. Boo hoo. Teachers have to spend and hour grading papers. "What about when you child need help study for a test or help with that math problem." Not after school. I have NEVER seen a District 15 teacher stay late or come in early. You seriously could pave the parking lot 10 minutes after school lets out at Lake Louise, Winston and Hunting Ridge. So now parents have to pay someone to watch their kids or ask a grandparent (as if they don't work????) to drive for 40 minutes because these teachers are too lazy, indifferent and greedy to do what every other professional does - show up. I am so sick of these teachers. We need to fire the whole bunch and start over because they are clearly failures. But we need to start with the board elections coming up and the new superintendent. It is time to get talent into this district.

• On the article UPDATED: District 15 to Implement New Schedule for 2013-2014 School Year

  

  Becky Werner

  12:05 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013

  I think that's great that you and your husband don't have to worry but wow, are you arrogant. First of all, many people posting between 8 and 11 work nights. Secondly, these teachers are lazy - period. They screech out of the parking lot 2 minutes after the buses are gone. Third, professionals show up without comp time. These teachers should be ashamed. And fourth, there are single parents, parents who are ill, newly relocated parents who don't have the friendship base, family or a sympathetic employer. Some of these schools will now start at 9:20. People will get fired over this. People will lose their jobs or young kids will be left alone. Not getting what we want? That's a statement for the useless teachers - not the parents. These teachers don't work now and want to work less. This is being thrown on the backs of the parents and the students because of lazy teachers and shows how mediocre public education in general and District 15 specifically has become. This isn't whining. This is outrage. I'll be nicer when teachers in this district work more than 7 1/2 months a year and more than 5 1/2 hours a day.

• On the article UPDATED: District 15 to Implement New Schedule for 2013-2014 School Year

  Becky Werner

  11:55 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013

  It is time for the taxpayers and parents to take this nightmare back from the teachers' unions. Who is the idiot who thought this up? If they want the teachers to come in early one day a week that should be it. Teachers want to be TREATED like professionals but want to ACT like hourly maintenance workers. Professionals just show up when they have to. These folks work 7.5 months a year 5 1/2 hours a day earning pay that full time people make. It is time to say ENOUGH. And who is the idiot superintendent that we hired that is going along with this. Putting this on the backs of parents and students is making district 15 the laughing stock of Illinois. Some of these schools will start at 9:30. Reckless. We were such a good district when I moved here. Now we're a joke and the teachers are jokes. Lazy, indifferent and unwilling to lift a finger beyond their 5 hour days. Travesty.

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