Allow me to Link to an Amazing Speech

This is John Kuhn, a Texas educator, speaking about what teachers really do.

Another Day, Another Dollar

The "higher ups" told my boyfriend that he and the other English teachers at his school now must teach books that match the social studies curriculum. In a meeting, they announced that when students are studying the "New World" the English teachers should teach Latin American poetry. This all sounds pretty terrific on paper, but the school has not one book that it suggested the English department now teach. Not only that. In his school, despite the urging for student work to get more "rigorous," they turned off the air conditioning in the computer labs, because, supposedly, "air conditioning season is over," at the DOE. Students were sitting in a 90 degree classroom, barely able to work. This is particularly wasteful of taxpayer money, because everyone knows computer rooms are supposed to be maintained at a cool temperature in order to protect the equipment. We're so cheap that we can't air condition a computer lab, and teachers are supposed to invent new curriculum on the spot out of thin air? Another day, another dollar.