This morning I was thinking about block scheduling and how the math and foreign language teachers are totally against it because they would have to rethink the way they teach. When you have the same power point for ten years of teaching Algebra 1, it would be a difficult change. We wouldn't want our most important teachers to have to change the way they teach. The fact of the matter is that kids need to learn math. It is the only subject that we can quantify in a test score. There is only one right answer for a math problem. 2 hours of math homework every night should be minimum if we want to keep up with Iran and North Korea.
English teachers have been complaining that the district wants to get rid of books and just teach everything out of a textbook and the same anthology. This would cut costs and even the playing field. The district wants to be able to measure in a benchmark test score and the only way is if all of the students read the same thing at the same time. It would also be cheaper to buy one textbook instead of a bunch of different novels. Just like North Korea, we should only read books by our Dear Leader. That ensures that everyone gains the same superior knowledge.
If you want all students to graduate high school with the same knowledge, lets keep doing what we're doing. Let's also get rid of all the arts and music or at least keep it as an "elective" so as to make sure that students all come out the same. I mean who gave these people called "artists" license to teach? All they did was take a bunch of LSD in college and splatter some paint, make bongs in ceramics, and sing in the choir for the free trips to Europe. Get a real job and learn some math and go be an engineer like everyone else.
Only Spanish should be taught as a foreign language because our students need to be able to read and write "Slave". Don't teach them how to converse either (not that they teach this anyways) because Spanish speaking people need to just obey orders and non-Spanish speaking people are supposed to give them.
I have nothing to say about history and science other than it makes for a good AP class. Those are important in raising the API score of any school or district. Although we shouldn't be teaching the lie of evolution. Everyone knows that man came from Adam and Eve. Able and Cain were their two offspring and those two men procreated to have civilization as we know it until that flood wiped out everyone and the son's of Noah procreated. I guess two men can have offspring, but they can't get married in California because that would ruin the sanctity of marriage.
Physical education is important. At the moment our youth become more and more obese. All I ask is to find a positive way to teach kids how to enjoy physical activity. My PE experience was one that many youth experience, a place for ridicule. My lack of self-esteem was only magnified in this class.
Education is here to create the drones of society. They should all think the same, act the same, and dress the same. If a kid can't learn in the way we teach, prescribe him some drugs so that he will. It should be a well-oiled machine.
