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Yeesh. It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. [...] Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck. Why? Because they were designed to.

Seen on

daoistraver's journal.

Bad book ideas, on

ratatosk's journal.

Want nap. Also want cuddles and/or to be held. Badly. Borderline lonely, maybe.

Don't know if I'm going to Diesel tonight. Thinking about it.

Deciding that

aelisdeliria needed to have heard "Drive" and "Closer" last night put me into one _hell_ of a dirty-minded mindset. Oddly enough, _not_ strongly into a horny one. It must have been too long since I last had opportunity to fool around with anyone.

Sunlight today! Lots of it! And less windy than yesterday. Slightly.

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*cuddle volunteer*

*smiles* Poke me when I get home tonight about this; if I'm sufficiently distracted, I may forget that I need it!

Still not sure about Diesel, but suspect it's probably wiser to not attempt a large group thing tonight. :)

Sorry you didn't make it to the Diesel; it always makes me feel better to get lotsa hugs from my friends...as I would have hugged you, had you been there.

*smiles* But I will see you in... a week! :)

It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job.

It's so much not a secret that we had several *teachers* tell us about it when I was growing up. :-/ Talk about demoralizing.

Hélas, I cannot make it to the Diesel tonight. If you do end up going, have some extra fun for me.

*sends virtual cuddles*
I'm filing that book on my wishlist, too -- thanks! :)

I agree with Gatto's ideas about schools being factories to create worker bots, and to be compliant to what the government wants out of its populus. Not my idea of good.

Yay for linking the school article. I've been a fan of Gatto's writings for about 10 years now. His book "Dumbing Us Down" is an easy read, basically an elaboration of what he said in his acceptance speech at the Teacher of the Year banquet. Yes! This man had the temerity to use that opportunity to tell all the top education people in his home state exactly what he REALLY thought of their own school system. Of course, that was the end of his teaching career, but...talk about going out with a bang.

Here's a link to a bunch of his essays:
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html

"The Underground History of American Education" is a dense and thorough work, chock full of proof that business and government interests worked toghether to create a nation of functional automatons (basic skills = good workers, while independent thought = troublemakers for the status quo). The article above seems to be based on material from that book, from what I can see.

I've seen him lecture; he's quick, extemporaneous, and charismatic.

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