"Nobody suffers like the poor." -Henry Chinaski in Barfly
Poverty is the thing. I work in a school. Before I started I expected the parents to be apathetic or absent. The parents I've talked to care deeply. The problem, as I see it, is that they are poor. We talk and talk about this or that. The simple truth is that poverty is fucking people in the ass. Public education has been under assault for 40+ years. I used to think that standardized tests were a misguided attempt to measure student and teacher performance. After less than one year in a public middle school, I am convinced standardized testing is a tool to destroy public education. I'm beginning to wonder the same about Common Core. Another thing I'm dealing with is how boring is the content I'm hired to teach these kids. I realized today that I've been hired to sell swampland in Florida. "...sell you dirt to fucking deadbeats money in the mattress..." -Richard Roma in Gleng...