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Welcome back student’s!

It’s that time of year again, wherein I’m outraged, vocally and anew, about the spectacularen’t state of American public education.

I’ll try to be a little less vocal about it this time around. I know a lot of you are educators, and I don’t want to create enmity. But allow me one quick and tidy rant:

Both teachers and administrators expend an obscene amount of time and energy cogitating, talking, strategizing, pretending, posturing, fighting with, and sabotaging one another in their roles; and they (you?) are doing it at the expense of meaningfully enriching themselves and their ability to serve in the roles they so noisily (and clumsily) prattle on about living to uphold.

Something something arguing about what song to play while the Titanic something. Okay, that’s all! I’m finished! See how quick and tidy that was! So there’s plenty of time left over for me to go fill in the educational holes being poked in my kids’ intellects.

Happy Back 2 School!

  1. smartasshat reblogged this from texburgher and added:
    completely agree. They should NOT be teaching kids...Comic Sans is acceptable.
  2. skwint said: I hope the incorrect apostrophe in “student’s” was ironically intentional. I thought your rant was going to be about grammatically incorrect publications from schools who are supposed to teach grammar. I guess that is my rant, not yours.
  3. angelablack said: That apostrophe s is killing me.
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