Moron, or Typical Teacher

This nutcase in CO has been shredded to bits on all sorts of different fronts, and deservedly so. However, his recent statements in his own defense have been extremely eye-opening, and should be looked at carefully ... it is the "higher" lesson. He of course lied through his teeth ... trying to say that this was some type of facade to stimulate conversation ... yeah, right!

To summarize, one of the gut-level responses that people have had is "what the hell does this have to do with geography?" (if you did not know, this class was supposed to be a geography class). This guy was on the Today show this morning, defending the fact that he spent a 20 minute tirade on the State of the Union speech as the intended curriculum for this class. As some folks are explaining it, this type of "geography" is apparently supposed to deal with the "influences" or "interactions" of human systems and the geography.

Yeah, I know ... total B.S. ... but work with me here. Imagine for the moment that this goof is not lying ... that there really are geology courses that open up the discussion to this kind of crap. That, my dear readers, would raise one helluva lot more of a concern for me than if he was simply being a derelict.

Think about this in the "higher" sense ... you have school kids graduating from high school with mush for brains, particularly when it comes to history and geography. Many cannot find their own towns or states on a map/globe ... let alone find some of the more important places in the world ... the Middle East, North Korea, etc. Plenty have very little knowledge of history ... do not know who were the first few presidents, who was president during the Civil War (and I always like to throw in which party he was from! ;-), etc.

Well, if the looney teacher is correct, it makes perfect sense. You have an idiot who rants about a bunch of stuff that he is obviously screwed up about (doesn't even come close to a reasonable interpretation of what the SoU was about) ... teaching the students a far left liberal doctrine. This rant goes on and on and on, meaning that they spend very little time actually learning geography. By the way ... what a great job, eh (well, OK, if you're liberal) ... you get to rant to a bunch of mindless zombies for hours on end, regardless of how stupid it is, and are not in any way obligated to actually teach anybody anthing but your screwed up opinion. If these liberal teachers apply the same kind of logic to history classes (or should I say, "revisionist history" ... it would be no big surprise then that the students would fail so miserably on standardized tests in these subjects.

The solution is obvious ... end the public school system and make everything private or consumer driven (vouchers). Allow the parents to control things by having the option to bail out.