How about 2 "R"s and "P"?
Reading, writing and...propaganda?
Being a substitute teacher has its rewards. You get to be a part of the education process and see first-hand what is happening in the schools.
Some might say that I am "fortunate" to live in a city with a top school (ranked nationally). On the contrary, my choice of where to live is quite deliberate. I refused to live in a city without a history of excellent schools.
I have to say my experience "in the trenches" confirms the statistics and rankings and scores. Our local schools are excellent. The students are well-behaved and the administration puts learning first.
So it was fairly disappointing to come across a (teacher's) union/Democrat activist sponsored bit of propaganda masquereding as an educational magazine. One of the articles contained a story from a high school "English" teacher who delighted in a retelling of how her classes spent twenty percent of their instructional days "looking for hidden homophobia in America".
I immediately felt sorry for her students who have been robbed of their educational chances because their teacher has a political agenda. This is also no doubt one of the teachers who whines about "having to teach to the test" when it comes to standardized tests. Indeed, what standardized test has twenty percent of its content devoted to "hidden homophobia in America"?
One of the signatures of repressive regimes is that they crow about their "literacy" rates. It's all smoke and mirrors, though. People are taught to read only so they can be force-fed propaganda and only to the extent that they can read at basic levels. Schools become little more than indoctrination centers where students learn about how great their leaders are and how evil their opponents are. Subjects like logic and critical thinking are not only absent, they are on the list of "forbidden" topics. Good students do not engage in dissent!
Not everyone has the flexibility to be able to be a substitute teacher but there may be some unexpected free time in your future. Spend it wisely...say at your local schools or volunteering for political parties that don't support wasting time on partisan political propaganda in our schools. Most districts are happy with you subbing as little as once a quarter and being on your local PTO/PTA only takes one night a month!
It's bad enough that our future is clouded by socialism. We don't need it accelerating the degeneration of American schools into two "R"s and "P".
(Disclaimer: there is no hidden homophobia in this article.)
Being a substitute teacher has its rewards. You get to be a part of the education process and see first-hand what is happening in the schools.
Some might say that I am "fortunate" to live in a city with a top school (ranked nationally). On the contrary, my choice of where to live is quite deliberate. I refused to live in a city without a history of excellent schools.
I have to say my experience "in the trenches" confirms the statistics and rankings and scores. Our local schools are excellent. The students are well-behaved and the administration puts learning first.
So it was fairly disappointing to come across a (teacher's) union/Democrat activist sponsored bit of propaganda masquereding as an educational magazine. One of the articles contained a story from a high school "English" teacher who delighted in a retelling of how her classes spent twenty percent of their instructional days "looking for hidden homophobia in America".
I immediately felt sorry for her students who have been robbed of their educational chances because their teacher has a political agenda. This is also no doubt one of the teachers who whines about "having to teach to the test" when it comes to standardized tests. Indeed, what standardized test has twenty percent of its content devoted to "hidden homophobia in America"?
One of the signatures of repressive regimes is that they crow about their "literacy" rates. It's all smoke and mirrors, though. People are taught to read only so they can be force-fed propaganda and only to the extent that they can read at basic levels. Schools become little more than indoctrination centers where students learn about how great their leaders are and how evil their opponents are. Subjects like logic and critical thinking are not only absent, they are on the list of "forbidden" topics. Good students do not engage in dissent!
Not everyone has the flexibility to be able to be a substitute teacher but there may be some unexpected free time in your future. Spend it wisely...say at your local schools or volunteering for political parties that don't support wasting time on partisan political propaganda in our schools. Most districts are happy with you subbing as little as once a quarter and being on your local PTO/PTA only takes one night a month!
It's bad enough that our future is clouded by socialism. We don't need it accelerating the degeneration of American schools into two "R"s and "P".
(Disclaimer: there is no hidden homophobia in this article.)