Reading over my diary from 1988--for an article I'm writing about Journals of Peace: a RPCV event to commemorate President Kennedy that November--I see that I've written, "We're ...trying to get a new Community College Board. I don't hate the incumbents as much as the other teachers do; perhaps that's because I don't know them as well. But I am tired of the unpleasant surprises we get each fall. This fall, the college board voted to give administrators an enormous salary increase. A month later 13 teachers were laid off because of budget cuts. Most of the teachers...got their jobs back, but what a lot of grief this caused. A lot of groups--and a couple of newspapers--are supporting our candidates over the incumbents, and that's unusual.
I write about Dukakis, too, saying "Sometimes I feel a little like Dukakis. ("Tina, you're no Dukakis." Lloyd Bentsen) "The harder I try the worse I fail. ...It seemed to be easier to be a successful teacher in 1982, when I started teaching here. Lately I've felt that I'm not doing as good a job, and yet I'm working harder than ever. I can't figure it out, and I don't think Dukakis can figure it out, either."
And I write about my involvement with a fundraiser for COSANDES, which I describe as "the community college teachers organization that tries to help the teachers in El Salvador (who are being persecuted and sometimes even killed by the Salvadoran death squads the U.S. helps finance). "
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