EduShyster is excited to see that Morgan Spurlock has discovered charter schools, which are training minority students to be busy every minute every day. Spurlock has a CNN program called “The Inside Man” where he sees how things really work.
When Spurlock decided to find out why our schools are “failing,” This is what he did:
“The Inside Man was off on a mission. First stop: Finland, where Spurlock joined a long and growing list of American visitors who descend on that country intent on learning nothing. Then it was time to find a school that takes every single one of the elements of the Finnish success story and either ignores them completely or does the precise opposite of what the Finns do. Welcome to Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School, where there is no magical 100% solution but rather one hundred, individual 1% solutions. Let’s take a look, shall we?”
What are the secrets of this charter?
“Williamsburg Prep’s “immersion approach” relies on key special sauce ingredients like tracking the speaker plus some nifty new flavors, including lots of hand clapping and snapping. Most importantly though, neither these students, nor their hands, are ever idle. And that’s key because it is a well known historical fact that idle hands do the Devil’s work. Also, in the jobs of the future, there will not be much downtime, if you know what I mean. In other words, Williamsburg Prep looks a lot like a school in Finland, if Finland was actually called SLANTland and instead of educating students, the Finnish teachers were training seals.”
To learn more about this miraculous school, read on.
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I saw this show by Spurlock. He completely drank the Kool Aid. This is what passes for investigative journalism now.
I was disappointed in this show. I stopped watching before his fawning over the charter school was complete.
Success For All – another failed, scripted program foisted on good teachers in Title I schools, snapped, clapped, tracked the speaker and allowed no time for the development of human intellect, inquiry or interest. Because efforts like WCCS don’t know what they are doing, they simply steal techniques that amount to nothing more than crowd control. Crowd control is all you are left with once an educated populace has been systematically eliminated.
Students as trained seals. Ideal for the education of the proles.
I liked all the time he spent planning ONE lesson. At that rate he would never sleep if he took a regular job in the classroom.
They really do have a lot of money to spend on this “advertising”!
There’s no link that allow one to “read on”.
How much was Spurlock paid for this interview and who paid him?
Don’t know too much about Spurlock other than he ate a lot of big macs, fries and shakes. What are his credentials? I guess anyone who ever ate at McDonalds is now an education expert. I once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. Ha, ha
Plain scary! I hope that parents don’t buy into this school.
And so, Renee, how do we get the economy expanding again, so that the lower and middle classes can have real jobs? What’s the first step you’d take?