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Progressive Teacher Pustule: Pay Your School Taxes and Shut Up

hwaet2 Wrote: Apr 14, 2012 12:36 PM

No matter where you live, you do NOT live in an excellent school district. Our schools have become so badly downgraded that we're now teaching in 13 years the same amount that Anne Shirley (a typical student of 1910) acquired in five years. Go read "Anne of Green Gables" and see for yourself. She was getting the same curriculum the peasant children of rural Uruguay were getting in 1974. It's wasn't that difficult, but our modern teachers aim very very low.

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Progressive Teacher Pustule: Pay Your School Taxes and Shut Up

EAGnews.org and I continuously poke the belly of the education beast to see what kinds of pustules pop, and it never ceases to amaze us the types of low-lifes involved in our education system.

There are many great teachers – we work with a lot of them every day. But there are also a lot of people who don’t deserve the honor of teaching our children.

Whether it’s union-defended “pervy” teachers getting a slap on the wrist for very serious offenses, teachers doctoring student test scores for their own gain, or teachers union officials involved...

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