Please read this. THE ONION GETS IT!
When you become a joke in THE ONION, the end of school deform is in sight.
The article begins:
“ATLANTA—One year into its founding as the purported “bold next step in education reform,” administrators on Monday sang the praises of Forest Gates Academy, a progressive new charter school that practices an innovative philosophy of not admitting any students. “We’ve done something here at Forest Gates that is truly special, combining modern, cutting-edge pedagogical methods with a refreshingly non-pupil-centric approach,” said academy president Diane Blanchard, who claimed that the experimental school boasts state-of-the-art facilities, a diverse and challenging syllabus, absolutely zero students, a world-class library, and the highest faculty-student ratio in the nation. “Thanks to our groundbreaking methods, we’ve established a structured yet free-thinking environment where the student is taken out of the equation entirely, and in fact is not allowed on school property. And the results, we think, speak for themselves.”
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Awesome.
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So funny, it’s sad.
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Always love the Onion! Just take those pesky kids with their distinctively cumbersome and challenging needs out of the equation altogether.
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They already do that…it’s called charters, AF style.
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Funding from The Gates Foundation.
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Gates…schmates!
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The true nature of the charter beast, the irrevelance of students.
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I love the fact that it’s Forest GATES charter school — someone at the Onion has been doing their homework!
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From one day to the next it is tough to discern reality from satire: Pitbull’s educational enterprises and the student-free progressive charter sound equally unbelievable.
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Now THAT’S funny!
In Manhattan, old schools that have been closed have been turned into luxury condos and Whole Foods stores. . . .
Replacing public education children with private luxury consumerist adults . . . .
America’s got talent, vision, sparkle, and spiffy, bright hopes!!!!!
And probably rioting in the next 3 years.
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In our school district it is the teachers rather than the students who are not being admitted, that is, our schools are being teacher-proofed. With our Proficiency Grading system, homework assignments and class attendance are optional and have no bearing on the students’ proficiency grade, which is determined by a computer-generated algorithm using test scores. They tell us that teachers now “orchestrate the learning”.
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funny and sad. yes.
Randall Jarrell wrote that ours would be known in the future as the time when parody became impossible because the actual was crazier than any possible parody. He was close to the truth.
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“. . . the highest faculty-student ratio in the nation.” Spoken like a real life charterite!
Now a test question for all: Why?
Candy lollipop to the first one who gets it correct. And your teacher gets to keep his/her job (at least for next year)!
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Don’t miss this Onion article. I think it’s better!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-year-volunteering-as-a-teacher-helped-educate-a,28803/
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Too funny, but oh so true! Thanks for sharing!
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This is the answer to teacher test scores. If we can’t raise the children we are responsible for, then this is truly the answer. I would consider a substantial pay cut to work at this school. I teach in Tennessee so I have topped out on Kevin Huffman’s pay scale so in a few years, I will have to pay the state to let me teach here anyway.
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