tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231162963364357109.post4907288024421388789..comments2023-03-27T02:36:53.691-07:00Comments on Sparky San Diego: Who’s Paying Attention Out There?SparkySanDiegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06659685665397099088noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231162963364357109.post-14884278216375722762009-05-11T11:16:00.000-07:002009-05-11T11:16:00.000-07:00Your comments are so sad. Yes, the article I read...Your comments are so sad. Yes, the article I read in the U-T Sunday didn't even scratch the surface of what's going on.<br />You sound like I did when I retired from PUSD. I was in the "Graduating class" of 2004, when PUSD made an offer I couldn't refuse. I was not ready to leave the profession nor the students (sob!), but I was becoming bitter because my philosophy and priorities in education did not match what education is today. Not only PUSD, but nationally. Don't even get me started on No Child Left Behind and all the testing which takes all of spring teaching time. Being a special ed. teacher will all the increasing laws just pissed me off! I had to leave when I did because I could not TEACH; to much of everything else was taking priority.<br />Anyway, I hear in your comments similar angst toward what your profession has become to what I felt in my profession. <br />So do your soul searching in the mountains, my friend. Leave the job while you still have some enjoyment of it. Leave on a positive note.<br />We NEED good people like you with all your training and experience, but we also need good people like you with all your training and life experience in retirement sharing you talents in another way. I chose to volunteer, do educational consulting, and sub when needed in the Deaf class at RBHS. That is FUN now; not bitter, as I had felt the last couple years.<br />I pray for the young ones coming up the ranks, but they haven't seen the way it "used to be." They can put up with the shit we can't deal with anymore. God bless them - I'm outta there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231162963364357109.post-57695038393636750042009-05-10T14:54:00.000-07:002009-05-10T14:54:00.000-07:00what can we do to help? i stumbled on this blog an...what can we do to help? i stumbled on this blog and could not believe what the mayor is doing to police officers in san diego. i was born and raised here (linda vista) and have always appreciated the police. i want the very best to protect my wife and i as well as our two grandchildren not to mention the rest of our community. i have sent the link to this blog to all of my friends and those i work with. everyone i know appreciates the work all of you do sparky. do not give up.san diego native and voternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231162963364357109.post-19855075703265553792009-05-10T10:40:00.000-07:002009-05-10T10:40:00.000-07:00You need to share this information with the Press ...You need to share this information with the Press Sparky. If your numbers are accurate the people need to understand the consequences. Expound on the affect the expected loss of these experienced members of the department. I'm glad I live in another state now. I would be tempted to pick a fight with the mayor over what he is doing to my department.Retired n Angrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231162963364357109.post-51135866958790844742009-05-09T12:30:00.000-07:002009-05-09T12:30:00.000-07:00Sparky this is compelling information that the pub...Sparky this is compelling information that the public should be made aware of! With the lying politicians and a Chief of Police who is afraid to tell the public the truth for fear of losing his job, the residents (because many are not citizens) of San Diego are truly losers. The Mayor is deceitful and selfserving. He is punishing the police officers of this City for their position of only asking the city of San Diego to fullfill the contractual obligations they initiated. He is the biggest of the lying politicians. He truly makes me ill. To think I once thought that he was an honorable person of character.... What a waste. Even more sickening is the lack of leadership the Chief of Police is displaying by not standing up for the residents of San Diego and his officers and telling the truth. He is a person without character, who is only thinking of himself. Never let truth and honesty stand in the way of his career. This is even more disheartening when you know that he already has a very good retirement and doesn't need this job accept to fill his ego!Secretsalmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17786002564548353010noreply@blogger.com