Tag: Schools/Education

Creepy dystopian news of the day

I’m really conflicted about this. There are very few organizations, local or otherwise, whose missions I respect more than Kevin Johnson’s St. HOPE. But the educational org’s newest project has me a little weirded out:

Imagine taking your child to a preschool that could scan each little brain, take blood samples, administer psychological tests or do genetic testing to help decide which teaching techniques best suit each youngster.

I don’t know, I mean it’s a little derivative…I think there was a newer episode of Twilight Zone like that… Oh wait, you’re not describing a horrifying dystopian future setting for a sci-fi movie, that’s an actual plan for a school.

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Rookie mistakes, and this principal ain’t my pal

Interesting story in today’s Bee about Sac City Unified’s problems with teacher turnover and inexperience. Paints an overall dismal picture of SCUSD’s future: rookie teachers in SCUSD deserve a big Sac Rag RIGHT AWN.

You know who doesn’t? Kathy Kingsbury, principal at Pacific Elementary School, who praises her inexperienced staff but complains “the biggest hassle is everybody having babies all the time.” I know, right? How dare they. You know what would help Kathy Kingsbury’s job a lot, is nobody actually having babies at any time. No whining mouths to feed and/or educate. I hope for her sake that any of her teachers currently out on maternity leave found something else to read this morning, though in that case they’d have missed what was otherwise a pretty eye-opening piece.

(Nutjob translation to this post: Right, because unless our womenfolk start popping out 30 apiece, we’ll have to start taking Mohammad’s piano piece Czechoslovakia bacon hat.)