I love George Carlin. People focus so much on his use of foul language instead of his social commentary and views on the American citizen. A side note: George needs to be listened to in his unaltered form. A George with no foul language is not George. He denounces schools as ruining the creativity and critical thinking skills of youth, blames business for screwing up the economy and controlling the country and overall considers the public to be a bunch of lazy, lifeless consumers.
And now Big Business is moving into education. Bill and Melinda Gates. Eli Broad. Countless other Inc.'s and Co.'s and six figure salary earning CEOs of "schools" want to take over under-performing schools that are being measured with poor tests and even poorer resources.
And they are winning. They have the media, the ear of the misinformed public, and too few people teachers standing up against them arguing for demanding a better way.
Can it be called a hiatus if I've only posted once before? More like a restart...
A lot has changed since I made that first post. I've mellowed out (slightly), got a teaching gig (yay!), gotten engaged to D (double yay!), buying a house, got involved in a 'master' teacher program.
That's not to say that the previous post is null and void. I still believe everything I wrote. Maybe more so now. But I think it's refined from my experiences through teaching and simply because I've been on this planet a few more years.
Hey, this blogging thing isn't so bad. Maybe I will keep up with it this time...
There is so much I would like to comment on and discuss, but I think I will plug a book I was reading. D had it laying around and I saw the provocative title and the pictures and decided that reading it would be more interesting than doing my work!
I enjoyed it's frank descriptions of historical events that are often misconstrued or ignored in history classes at the high school level.
This is the kind of thing we need more of in the world: people exposing the truth about those in charge that think that they can do whatever they like.
