August 16, 2013
Steven Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: The world of public education, as explained by modern American Liberal Steven Goldstein, and why it is condemned to failure by the racist Koch Brothers, evil Wal-Mart, and the homophobic Tea Party [evil bastards all] as detailed in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.

My dear Professor,

My plan for increasing FCAT Geometry scores and the self-esteem of rhomboid challenged students by changing pi from 3.1416 to 3.0 has failed to gain traction.

Herewith my backup plan, Plan B to be precise, to make education “better” in Florida.

#1 – Reward success. Punish failure. – The idea of paying a bad teacher as much as a good teacher is offensive to Logic. In fact, paying anything to a bad teacher is lunacy.

#2 – Give good teachers hazard pay for teaching in bad schools – In the Second World War may GIs volunteered to become paratroopers because they were paid $30 more a month. Less than a year after they jumped into Normandy Hitler ate his gun. Why not try it here? If it doesn’t work we can always go back to what we know doesn’t work, right?

#3 – Tenure must go –Accountants don’t have it. Diesel mechanics don’t have it. Bus drivers don’t have it. Chefs who spit in the soup don’t have it. Surgeons who mistake livers for lungs don’t have it. Tenors who are afraid of Turnadot never get to the Met.. Football coaches don’t have it. Philandering spouses don’t have it. Napoleon would execute 3 poilus for cowardice before a battle. He said it “encouraged the others”. Talk about innovation in education! We should try it. If it doesn’t work, move on to something else.

#4 – Feel good courses are out – The Trivium, despite decades of snarling attempts by disciples of modern American Liberalism to late term abort it, is still standing. In fact, the worse things become around it, the better it becomes. It doesn’t matter if you are calorically challenged, if you are gender challenged, if you are “unlucky in life’s lottery”--------“Stones are hard, water is wet….if that is granted all else follows”. Alas, the drowning polar bears are on their own.

#5 – Degrees in Education, most particularly graduate degrees, are forever invalidated. They raise Sophistry to an absurd level. Confusing feelings with ideas, and then glorifying them with laurels, “leads a country by a short route to chaos”.

Wait a minute. Isn’t that where we started?

I think I just proved my point.

QED.




Kevin Smith
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