March 01, 2011

Jon Stewart "Teachers are Destroying America"

Thanks Jon for satirizing the latest attempt to pit one segment of  working Americans against another.

"The greed that led you into the profession?" I started teaching for $6700 a year and got to spend my summers standing on a ladder - always hoping I could finish the last of my paint jobs before heading back into the classroom.

Enjoy the clip - when it comes to education, there's little to laugh about these days.
For another satire on the current education scene see my post "Vintage 1910 French Postcard Predicts Bill Gates and NCLB."

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Mar 1, 2011 3:46:03 PM | Commentary

4 Comments

Eric Nentrup

it's Jon Stewart, not John. but GREAT share!

Posted by: Eric Nentrup | March 08, 2011 at 07:51 PM

Peter Pappas

Thanks Eric - I guess I should know that spelling counts!

Posted by: Peter Pappas | March 09, 2011 at 03:52 AM

Peter Pappas

Charles,

Thanks for the great link to the Jon Stewart piece on Fox News' Hypocrisy Comparing Teachers, Wall Street. Once again he nails it!

Posted by: Peter Pappas | April 04, 2011 at 12:53 PM

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Vintage 1910 French Postcard Predicts Bill Gates and NCLB What an uncanny prediction - digitized information being force-fed into bored students. Looks like one of those miracle test prep programs guaranteed to bring up the scores. But I'm not sure - is that Bill Gates or an overpaid teacher unwilling to give away his collective bargaining rights? Part of series of images (circa 1910) attributed to French artist Villemard in which he predicted Paris life in 2000.

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