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[wispfox]

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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[starphire.livejournal.com]

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.