Hundreds of teachers and students from Berkeley and Oakland schools participated in the general strike Wednesday in Downtown Oakland, where upwards of 3,000 protesters marched in the streets in support of the Occupy movement.
In the Berkeley Unified School District, 24 employees — all teachers — asked for the day off Wednesday, with 17 of those from Berkeley High School, according to district spokesperson Mark Coplan.
All the teachers who were absent notified the district by Monday, so there were no issues with finding substitutes, he said. The district employs about 900 teachers.
According to Coplan, 788 of the approximately 3,400 total students at the high school were absent for at least part of the day Wednesday. The average number of student absences at the high school — which includes partial and all-day absences — between Oct. 6 and Oct. 28 was 546 students per day, according to Coplan.
“My understanding from the kids who were participating is that there were a number of kids who went to the rally in the morning, came back to school, and went back to the rally in the afternoon,” Coplan said.
In the Oakland Unified School District, 294 teachers — of the district’s approximate 2,000 teachers — were absent Wednesday, according to district spokesperson Troy Flint. Twenty to 25 employees in the district are absent on a typical Wednesday, he said.
In a Monday newsletter, the district said that while they agree with the sentiment of Occupy Oakland, students planning to participate in the protest would not receive excused absences.
“There weren’t any reports of mass student absences at any particular school,” Flint said. “I’m sure the numbers were larger, but they weren’t egregious.”
According to Flint, the district does not collect student attendance on a daily basis, so the exact number of students who were absent will not be available until next week.
About 268 of the absent teachers followed the formal process, which was to apply for personal leave by Monday so the district could find substitutes for missing teachers, according to Flint.
“We were pleased with the many people that followed that protocol,” Flint said.
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Feel free to call everyone’s major a “fluff” when in fact they tackle
complexities you can’t even begin to comprehend.
People whose view of the world revolves around some idea that Wall Street just stole money from poor people haven’t demonstrated their ability to comprehend “complexity”. People who bitch and moan about some businesses receiving special favors, without understanding that that they should be demonstrating against the people who actually had the power to grant bailouts or favors in first place (i.e. the lawmakers in DC) haven’t demonstrated their ability to comprehend “complexity”. People who think the solution to “economic inequality” is to start fires, vandalize property, and fight with the cops haven’t demonstrated their ability to comprehend “complexity”. Are those the types of people you with to defend in the Occupy Whatever movement?
A lot has changed
since you left college. I’m secure enough that once I finish Boalt I’ll
be making more money than you,
I really don’t care about how much others are making, only how I’m doing myself. That’s why I don’t have any malice towards Wall Street.
We law students
just love to make lengthy diatribes, it’s what we’re trained for.
Real lawyers argue the law, based on their knowledge of the law, and for a specific objective. You’re not really “arguing” because you’re not presenting any facts or logical reasoning to support your view. In fact, all you are doing is foaming. By the tone and content of your posts, it sounds like you will make a piss-poor lawyer. Maybe you can get a job as a professional activist with ACORN instead, given that your temperament is more suitable for a shrieking street thug…
Obama sure likes to take Fat Cat Wall Street donations. Then the 2 faced Clown turns around and supports the Occutards. Go figure.
Here’s an interesting piece out of Boston. Even the liberals in Beantown are getting fed up with the Occupy Whatever folks:
3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’
Three people arrested Thursday night inside the Occupy Boston camp have been charged with dealing crack cocaine.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Carl Stevens, who spent the night at the camp a
few weeks ago, talked to a man who spends most nights at Occupy Boston.
He said things have gone downhill. “Things have changed drastically. It seems to be deteriorating,” the
man told Carl. “A lot of drug use, alcohol use, people getting into
fights… It’s deteriorating pretty quick.”…
(Boston) Mayor Menino says the people in Dewey Square need to think about leaving.
“I just wish that the group that’s demonstrating, not just here in
Boston but nationally, will look to where the problems really are,” he
said. “The problems are down in Washington. And nobody’s even
addressing those issues of what Washington has done to our economy, to
job training, to housing, to education. They’re directing their anger at
the wrong location.” http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/04/3-charged-with-dealing-crack-occupy-boston-deteriorating/
Anyone who has spent any time in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts knows that liberal Democrats own the state lock stock and barrel, but even they are getting fed up with the Occupy Whatever crowd. That should be a clue to a certain Somebody that this group is alienating the 99%, not gaining their support…
You remind me of a dog that doesn’t know when to stop barking.
Yet you’re the who got worked up about my comments about the Occupy Whatever crowd, and instead of detailing why you disagree with my assessment, you launched into a personal attack by name, calling me various epithets.
So do remind us all with your chest thumping what kind of primate you are
See my comments above.
and randomly calling people “child” just because they’re still in college using a college newspaper
I never called people “children” because they are in college or using a college newspaper. I called YOU a child because your first response to my initial post had NOTHING to do with the subject at hand, just a bunch of personal attacks. I obviously hit a nerve, but instead of dealing with with the subject matter (Occupy Oakland) or my specific argument on the issue (that the Daily Cal was glossing over the fact that most of those involved in this protests were no more than violent thugs) you instead started spewing epithets such as “loser”, “muppet”, “Mommy’s basement”, like a talking stuffed toy with it’s string being pulled. An intelligent adult, no matter how passionate or animated he or she may get regarding the subject, can at least deal with SOME specifics. OTOH, you addressed NOTHING regarding the specifics of either the article or my first post. Instead, all you did was go bonkers, yet YOU accuse ME of frothing. Talk about a disconnect.
and you’re too damn proud of being old.
I’m not ashamed of being older than you. Why should I?
To call me a child is to call the whole student body a child
As if you represent the entire student body (G-d, I should hope not, for their sake). No, I addressed your specific adolescent behavior, and yours alone.
people who “know everything” don’t bother with college.
Given that I’m a Cal grad, sounds like a non sequitur response to me…
You excel at showing how big of a douche-bag you are with useless
commentary about other’s opinions as if you’re some self-appointed
free-speech police.
Talk about cognitive dissonance again. I’m not the one demanding others shouldn’t post. If I criticize people, it’s on their stated opinions or beliefs, not on whether they have a right to post a comment on an open internet forum.
Why don’t you follow your own advice and “associate with people your OWN AGE” instead of trolling the dailycal.org targeted to people HALF YOUR AGE?!
I could easily turn that around and ask why don’t you college kids stop protesting Wall Street, given that most of you have never had real jobs, paid close to nothing in taxes compared to the rest of us, and have never had positions of real responsibility in the world. I read and post on the Daily Cal for three reasons. First of all, it’s a free country, and just as you have the right to express your opinion in a public forum, I have my right as well.
Secondly, I am a graduate of Cal as well as a taxpayer, and called upon to support the UC system with my state tax dollars, as well as being continually bombarded by the various alumni associations to donate to my alma mater. I have a right to know what my tax money is being spent on in the name of “higher education, AND to express my concerns as to where those funds are being spent.
Last but not least (and I know you won’t like this) but it would really do some of you students to get a view of the world outside of academia, in particular those of us who graduated, moved on, and assumed real responsibilities in the outside world. For too many of you, your only source of info/opinion/perspective has been your parents, entertainment/mass media, and a state run education system, from kindergarten through grad school. A little perspective from those of us who have spent time elsewhere (private sector/corporate world, military, overseas) wouldn’t hurt, and in fact would do SOME of you quite a bit of good. A life cloistered in a goverment-run educational system simply isn’t healthy, and a community geared solely a college or university is no more open to the “diversity” that all of you profess to value than a small farming village or company mining town out in the hills somewhere. Take a walk around your town, and you will see what happens to people who get sucked into the Berkeley mindset and never move on. Professional panhandlers, Professional homeless. Geriatric adolescent with gray hear walking with canes wearing “F-ck the Police” T-shirts and an attitude that the average kid would have outrgown by the time he was 18 or 19. Exposure to other ideas would do a lot of students good, especially you…
A former U.S. Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care on Friday after a veterans group said he was beaten by police during clashes with demonstrators this week.
Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland, away from the main area of clashes , when he was injured.
Sabehgi was then kept in a holding cell for 18 hours. Despite begging to see a doctor, Sabehgi was refused medical assistance. Instead, according to Sabehgi, his jailors accused Sabehgi without any cause of being a heroin addict and alcoholic and – instead of providing medical help for his severe injuries – told him to stop taking heroin.
There is apparently a videotape of the incident (KOFY noted that “police are reviewing video of the incident”).
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/ows-guest-post-oakland-police-strike-army-ranger-with-nightsticks-on-his-back-ribs-shoulders-and-hands-lacerating-his-spleen-and-causing-internal-bleeding-then-deny-him-medical-treatment-for.html
More MSNBC BS from psycho.
any teachers who skipped work for this garbage should be immediately fired
no one takes you seriously,
anonymous vitriol holds no sway
And that’s YOUR real name you are posting under, Gaga?
False equivalence between my comment and guest:
I wasn’t posting vitriol.
You fail it again, Tony.
You have made it clear that it’s you posting under numerous handles, Mister Somebody. But thanks for blowing your cover – LOL!
I didn’t post this… but don’t blame me if you have a hard time accepting the fact: the general disdain your stupidity attracts. Next time check the profile before making absurd accusations.
Whatever – the constant hurling of invective as a substitute for actually dealing with the issue (as well as your stalker-like obsession) sort of point in your direction…
oh please, are you going to go cry in the corner now?
Grow up, I’ve always stuck to the core substance of the article when you are quick to hound people’s ideas like a stalker. You’re paranoid.I could stop going to dailycal.org and people would still ridicule your comments, as they should, without me and you would still blame me for your hurt feelings without any burden of proof….ha ha. Most of the time, you do all my work for me, proving to others your annoying comments.What goes around comes around child.
Grow up, I’ve always stuck to the core substance of the article when you are quick to hound people’s ideas like a stalker.
Oh, really? There’s not a SINGLE post on this thread where you discussed the Occupy Oakland people in particular. EVERY thread in this post so far by you (unless you’re posting under another handle, which I have suspected for some time) involves either a personal attack on me, or is in response to my reply to you. For you to make such a claim is laughable, and only indicates how out of touch you are with reality. And you have the nerve to tell ME to grow up?
Did anyone ever take you seriously?
OWS is about nonviolence and integrity, it is not about going down to their level
Given as much self-promotion as the Daily Crapsheet is doing over this Occupy Whatever protest, how come you haven’t shared those lovely photos of smashing windows, targeting and vandalizing non-union stores, fighting with the cops, wearing masks, and carrying banners with Marxist and Communist slogans? Come on now, we know damn well who’s running this show: the hard left, labor unions, and the usual criminal element, NOT “students and teachers”…
Who’s afraid of Marxism? Do you know anything about it, other than what you’ve heard from Glenn Beck?
I don’t listen to Glenn Back. I learned about Marxism from standing at the KLEN line between Luebeck, West Germany and Herrnburg, East Germany in 1981, observing the mine fields, electrical fences, watch towers, and carefully raked field of bare earth designed to detect footprints – not to keep intruders out of the DDR, but to keep their own people IN. I gained a real understanding what what Marxism and communism were all about – a political and economic philosophy built on coercion and imprisonment. Sorry you’re too young and lacking in real world experience to figure that out.
That must have puckered Emma up. She’s probably back in the dorm sucking her thumb in a dark closet. LOL
The Junior Woodchuck Revolutionary Brigade types have been coming out of the closet since the Oakland mob riot…
pretty sure that’s all lies, Tony
since the other day you were talking about graduating from Cal in the not too recent past
Not lies at all. I went to Europe for the first time when I was 19 years old, joined the Air Force the following year, went back to school when I got out, transferred to Cal, and graduated on my 34th birthday. You DO realize that not everyone who attends Cal goes there straight after high school, right? Or have I pointed out another example of your complete ignorance about everything beyond your own limited personal life experience?
Most Cal kiddies would be less clueless if they had to do at least 3 years of national service prior to attending university.
Look who’s FOAMING NOW?! Haha Loser. Typical TonyMuppet always throwing out crazy ideas that a Fox News fan-boy does. Luckily, his time on this Earth will be almost over. His flashbacks of his lame existence will be of trolling dailycal.org in his forties-pushing fifties in his mamas basement. While the young generation will be building condominiums over his pathetic excuse for a grave. Sucks to be you.
Thanks for making us all feel warm knowing how scared you are of the “hard left”. Apparently TonyMuppet from conservative based San Diego thinks he’s qualified to belittle the actions of liberals, BIASED MUCH?! Your mommy is calling for you to come down from the soapbox you fashioned out of a milk cart or you may hurt yourself! Ha Ha.
Feel free to response with your usual low caliber comments and ineffective constructive criticism.
Your handle is “Somebody”…..please seek immediate psychological help.
I especially liked your last sentence after taking the low road on Tony. Hypocrisy called out again, fool.
I should say the same to you. Going onto a liberal site with a handle “libsrclowns” premeditated to attack liberals definitely has mental issues. Why don’t you go rob a gun store? Loser. Grow up, and spend your time more wisely. Best piece of advice you will ever get.
[I should say the same to you. Going onto a liberal site with a handle "libsrclowns" premeditated to attack liberals definitely has mental issues.]
As if you should talk, Junior, given that you’re the most likely suspect in the “Tony is a (whatever)” category. At least libsrclowns can present a reasoned argument to support his position. All you do is hurl invective…
If you actually left your mommies basement and traveled like I did, you would know by now at forty that the country associates Berkeley with liberalism, in fact the whole bay area, so yes I am factually correct in this sense based on election records. I worked as an election officer so I would know.
I am flattered that you would think I would be sophisticated enough and waste my time to go and make different user handles to lecture a sorry excuse for a human being. I’ve seen other users belittle your 2-cents long before I posted in the past 2-weeks, so feel free to make worthless accusations about me dumb detective.
I am acting my age considering that I am still in college, I can’t say the same for you considering you’re supposed to …i dunno…be married by now and have a family instead of being a dumb troll …so it’s hypocritical for you to tell people to grow up.
[If you actually left your mommies basement and traveled like I did, you
would know by now at forty that the country associates Berkeley with liberalism, in fact the whole bay area, so yes I am factually correct in this sense based on election records. I worked as an election officer so I would know.]
I’m quite aware that the country associates Berkeley with lefty loopy liberalism. So does that mean only liberal points of view should be permitted in dailycal.org? You seem to have a real problem with the idea that others may express points of view that don’t meet your personal approval, a concept that actually runs contrary to the original (yet apparently no longer applicable) concept of “liberalism”.
As far as the rest of your post, it’s merely more of the same. You can’t seem to offer any cogent argument as to why you disagree with my view of the Occupy Whatever folks, so instead you fling your usual bile. Doesn’t say much about your ability to rationally debate issues…
Most Libs only want to listen to information that reinforces their world view. The word that applies to them is “narrow” not liberal. They are ready made for group think.
So Somebody, let me offer you some advice. Develop some critical thinking skills and report back sometime in the future.
[Most Libs only want to listen to information that reinforces their world view.]
Of course. Liberals try to project the impression that they have some type of monopoly of intelligence, wisdom, education, life experience, and general humanity. Any idea that contradicts their position is a challenge to the facade they project to the rest of the world, hence the vitriol and hysteria in response…
[Thanks for making us all feel warm knowing how scared you are of the "hard left". Apparently TonyMuppet from conservative based San Diego thinks he's qualified to belittle the actions of liberals, BIASED MUCH?!]
I am a native of the SF Bay Area and a Cal graduate, facts that do not change regardless of where I may be residing at present. I have as much right to post here as anyone else, and unlike you, actually provide something constructive to the conversation. The fact I may live in San Diego (or anywhere else) does not diminish the relevance of anything else I post, nor should it be of concern to you.
Most likely you don’t have enough intuition or life experience to comprehend this, but most Cal graduates do NOT spend their lives hanging around Berkeley after they graduate, but move wherever potential employment in their career field takes them. Not only have I lived and worked all over the United States since my graduation, but have spent a few years of my life working in Mexico, Japan, the UK, Ireland, Germany and Israel. Meanwhile, you cling to a failed Berkeley view of the world and diss those who were willing to grow up, become adults, and move on. If anyone is trolling online and living in Mommy’s basement, most likely it is you…
Blanket statements from a blank mind!I’m an active Berkeley student paying my own rent with my gf and volunteer my time to the underprivileged, whereas you’re a has-been. My professors enjoy my work, the campus games keeps me entertained, the group parties every weekend, my life is an epic win compared to yours. You reportedly hustle for jobs around the world maybe because YOU SUCK so bad nobody offers you a permanent position…ha ha. A reject of Berkeley running back home to your right-wing O’riley safety blanket. It’s a falsehood you share that an extreme close-minded conservative like you would go to a progressive college. It’s you who is living in their parents basement hiding behind lies. My parents are overseas sucker.There’s absolutely nothing about you that equates to being a mature adult. Nobody in their forties going on dailycal.org daily to troll is really “moving on.” Pathetic Loser who doesn’t even know he’s a loser. My Berkeley view is just fine. The majority of your posts gets instantly ridiculed by everyone, so I find your lame comments worthless anyway. Honestly, you’re just wasting everybody’s time, including yours which you have very little of.This winter, when the OCCUPY protesters are shaking from hypothermia in their tents making a political statement of the century, feel free to make snide comments from the comfort of your warm armchair showing the entire dailycal.org community and Cal what a callous person you are. Nobody on two legs would marry you.
[Blanket statements from a blank mind!I'm an active Berkeley student paying my own rent with my gf and volunteer my time to the underprivileged, whereas you're a has-been.]
I never considered attending college to be the pinnacle of one’s life, merely a stepping stone on the way to bigger and better things – and I certainly don’t miss it. In fact, I enjoy working in a career where I have some control over my own destiny, get a chance to travel and work on projects in the field, and associate with people who are far more tolerant and have more in the way of overall education and life experiences than snotty little children like you.
[You reportedly hustle for jobs around the world maybe because YOU SUCK so bad nobody offers you a permanent position]
I have a permanent full-time position with a solar technology company working on some novel power generation and lighting technology (and no, we haven’t received a dime of bailout money). I bet you didn’t know that they have sunlight in other countries, and that those other countries have interest in such technology as well. Come on now, are you really that clueless?
[A reject of Berkeley running back home to your right-wing O'riley safety blanket.]
And your plan is to do what after graduation, hang around Berkeley the rest of your life? I didn’t realize the compensation for being a professional malcontent was that lucrative. What is it that you are majoring in again?
[The majority of your posts gets instantly ridiculed by everyone, so I find your lame comments worthless anyway.]
So you change your handle a dozen times to pretend you’re “everyone”, then find my posts so “lame” and “worthless” that you respond with vitriol and invective, right?
[This winter, when the OCCUPY protesters are shaking from hypothermia in their tents making a political statement of the century]
What “statement” other than the fact that they are one gullible bunch of suckers?
In any case, thanks for the nice reply. I have obviously hit a nerve, which only reinforces that fact that under your blustering narcissism you are truly one insecure child.
You remind me of a dog that doesn’t know when to stop barking.
Apparently your REAL full time job is trolling the dailycal.org and blogging your fake life story and preaching to the masses that are HALF YOUR AGE. So do remind us all with your chest thumping what kind of primate you are, and randomly calling people “child” just because they’re still in college using a college newspaper, and you’re too damn proud of being old. To call me a child is to call the whole student body a child, people who “know everything” don’t bother with college. You excel at showing how big of a douche-bag you are with useless commentary about other’s opinions as if you’re some self-appointed free-speech police. NOW THAT’S A CHILD.
Why don’t you follow your own advice and “associate with people your OWN AGE” instead of trolling the dailycal.org targeted to people HALF YOUR AGE?! Don’t expect people working towards a degree to relate to your experiences, it’s an exercise in futility and stupidity! We’re you dropped on your head when you were born? Neglected as a child? Your starvation for attention manifests itself at this age is embarrassing and unbecoming of an alum of Cal.
You expose your narcissism by blaming me as the sole responder to your dumb quotes when in reality you agitate other users as well…I do have to go to class, work, and have a social life offline (something you wouldn’t know about). You’re miles away from anybody’s nerve, you just make loading pages a longer wait. I haven’t even begun to convey what others are saying about you. Maybe you get some weird kick out of this, a half-ass attempt at celeb-dom in your messed up mind, that people are saying anything about you.
Sure, I’m more recently vocal than others about your incessant lecturing, but that doesn’t mean I’m the only one. People have been negatively replying to your stupid comments long before me and will continue to do so after. Those blanket statements only lend more credibility to my argument, not yours.
Feel free to call everyone’s major a “fluff” when in fact they tackle complexities you can’t even begin to comprehend. A lot has changed since you left college. I’m secure enough that once I finish Boalt I’ll be making more money than you, how’s that for “fluff”? We law students just love to make lengthy diatribes, it’s what we’re trained for.
So all these OCCUPY vocalist both nationally and internationally are suckers to you, well there’s more of them than of you, and in a democracy, that makes you the minority, sucker. Your shallow assessment of the OCCUPY movement is premature as the successful Civil Rights Movement also took awhile to develop if you can bother to recall.
Apparently to only you, the worldwide economy must be so good right now, that “professional malcontents” are in the minority…wake up and leave the cave once in a while. You’re a joke. You need to see a doctor about your failure at taking meds for your mental condition.
You sound depressed, you ok? If not call mommy, ask her for a loan or something, dont worry son, it will all work out, but in the mean time dont be so sad all the time.
Same troll, different handle, I see.