Share it everywhere you can. Parents need to stop griping about GPA and recognize that no education could be better than the one you get fighting the state. Come on, people, you saw Red Dawn! It's time to end this long train of abuses and usurpation. Our kids are either going to die fighting their war or they're going to win taking their war to the useless minions of the state.
Picking your worst offending teacher is a great strategy these days. If a student has As and Bs in every class except for yours, and then complains to admin that the teacher is more concerned with pushing their social agenda than teaching the subject, it can put the teacher on the hot seat. Clearly, the student is a "good one " or they wouldn't be passing everything else, etc. It's a targeted approach; sort of like putting the particular teacher on the "Blacklist" and focusing attention on the most egregious offenders. Anyway, great article! As always, I love your rage against the machine!
This century, since GW Bush and Teddy Kennedy passed "No Child Left Behind", all public schools have some sort of standardized tests annually. These are referred to as "High Stakes" tests, but in general the stakes are high only for the School System, not the students taking the test. For instance, even when the law requires a student to pass a 3rd grade state-standard reading test to be promoted to 4th grade, parents or teachers or administrators routinely can -- do --request and are granted waivers. No consequences to the child. BUT, a teacher with too many or too high a percentage of under-performing students can't get a "merit based" pay bonus. The principal with excess low-scoring students is out of the running for a superintendent's job. A persistently low scoring school is subject to closure. Etc. The stakes ARE high -- for the system.
Which gives a competent student, or any union or conspiracy or cabal of several competent students, major power. Sandbag the tests. Deliberately underperform. Fail -- spectacularly. Who, as a student, actually cares? Oh, and make such plans to do so, known. Public.
"This social justice/DEI/1619 material is not on the state test, right? So I can ignore this, right? And if you insist on covering this, holding my local grades hostage to this material, the state test scores are going to suffer, right? I mean, MY scores are certainly going to suffer. So your merit pay might be at risk, right? I'm just sayin'..."
How strict are the truancy police? Drop out and get an education by starting a business. Self-educate. Self-discipline. Nobody said we have to participate in THEIR schools!
Share it everywhere you can. Parents need to stop griping about GPA and recognize that no education could be better than the one you get fighting the state. Come on, people, you saw Red Dawn! It's time to end this long train of abuses and usurpation. Our kids are either going to die fighting their war or they're going to win taking their war to the useless minions of the state.
You should write a book! This is great!!
Picking your worst offending teacher is a great strategy these days. If a student has As and Bs in every class except for yours, and then complains to admin that the teacher is more concerned with pushing their social agenda than teaching the subject, it can put the teacher on the hot seat. Clearly, the student is a "good one " or they wouldn't be passing everything else, etc. It's a targeted approach; sort of like putting the particular teacher on the "Blacklist" and focusing attention on the most egregious offenders. Anyway, great article! As always, I love your rage against the machine!
This century, since GW Bush and Teddy Kennedy passed "No Child Left Behind", all public schools have some sort of standardized tests annually. These are referred to as "High Stakes" tests, but in general the stakes are high only for the School System, not the students taking the test. For instance, even when the law requires a student to pass a 3rd grade state-standard reading test to be promoted to 4th grade, parents or teachers or administrators routinely can -- do --request and are granted waivers. No consequences to the child. BUT, a teacher with too many or too high a percentage of under-performing students can't get a "merit based" pay bonus. The principal with excess low-scoring students is out of the running for a superintendent's job. A persistently low scoring school is subject to closure. Etc. The stakes ARE high -- for the system.
Which gives a competent student, or any union or conspiracy or cabal of several competent students, major power. Sandbag the tests. Deliberately underperform. Fail -- spectacularly. Who, as a student, actually cares? Oh, and make such plans to do so, known. Public.
"This social justice/DEI/1619 material is not on the state test, right? So I can ignore this, right? And if you insist on covering this, holding my local grades hostage to this material, the state test scores are going to suffer, right? I mean, MY scores are certainly going to suffer. So your merit pay might be at risk, right? I'm just sayin'..."
I miss your twitter posts. Got booted. Dont know why or what "offensive" post. Please keep posting here. I am a fan if your work...
How strict are the truancy police? Drop out and get an education by starting a business. Self-educate. Self-discipline. Nobody said we have to participate in THEIR schools!