Dissident Teacher
@educatedandfree
After 20 years, I resigned my cush K12 job. It's time we talk honestly about schooling vs. education. I'm here to make sure you get the latter for your child.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you destroy a system of bureaucratized tyranny? One firm "No" at a time. One at a time. "We" can't do anything. Only you can.
My project is to get students intellectually engaged as a habit (my book is “The Habit of Thought”) so that they can enjoy serious books such as Johnson. I left public schools about thirty years ago because it was impossible to create sufficient intellectual focus and habits…
You guys know where people learn cheating like this has no consequences and often gets a subtle nod of encouragement, right? In your “free” public schools, America.
Tremendously low class move.
It's not just me, people. College professors: share your anecdata about woefully unprepared students! Parents of minors need to know and take action and college-aged (and high school) students have a right to understand that they were lied to.
I saw this first hand when I was teaching college English in 2012-2013. My Comp 1301 students were predominantly white, middle class kids from a "good" ISD in the suburbs of Harris county. Fresh out of grad school and bubbling with enthusiasm about my fledgling career as a…
If you guys haven’t read anything by Joel Salatin yet, you really, really should. amzn.to/4539p0c
The future of our farms is the future of our health.
I’m Hispanic. I passed all my credentialing exams with no problems. The literacy test, specifically, was basic. The removal of competency exams is straight up racist. Under such a system, if your kid walked into my classroom, you’d have good reason to suspect me to be…
New York's teachers will no longer have to pass a literacy exam, because a low percentage of Blacks and Hispanics passed. ny.chalkbeat.org/2017/3/13/2111…
This, but public school principals and superintendents.
I’ve met so many really dumb docs over the years. But it’s often hard for patients to tell who’s an idiot because medical jargon plus arrogance can hide incompetence. Maybe I’ll write a Substack about it.
In the interest of being solutions-oriented, perhaps we should consider the wisdom of the 80s female rock band power ballad before we succumb to the ai chatbots, eh, @elonmusk? open.spotify.com/track/5nN1jGnC…
Everything beautiful in our world is a conversation between educated people, take 2.
Johnny Cash and John Denver perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in their only performance together (1978)