From: Ruth I Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:09:27 -0800

As one who was a child and somewhat later a worker in the barnyards called
"educashional institutions", I know that such an original teacher would be canned. We cannot abide those who do not produce cookie-cutter kids in our system run by educationalists--not teachers (there is a difference). The proof of my hyposthesis is the system put in place at the behest of The Great Puppet (George W.) , his string-pullers, and the Congress, to test all those in schools receiving funding from the Feds. Do you think The Great Puppet could pass the tests? What coupons should he be given? Throughout all those years in work that I really loved, I learned a basic trick, one I always passed on to the most promising of the student teachers and librarians I "supervised" for various universities: CLOSE YOUR DOOR AND PROCEED TO WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. An open door is an invitation to official snoops, a.k.a., administrators.

Of course, the French school system is one in which every teacher is on the same page in the same book at the same time (ditto in Italy and a few other countries). Therefore, it's no wonder that our protagonist was fired. Is it?

And in many places in the U.S. what would happen?

For those who are near a teacher training institution: hold the perfessers on the floor and read BOOK OF COUPONS TO THEM. It may help...

then again....

There are a few books about unusual teachers (GOLDBERG FRED by Jill Pinkwater) is one but there have been others. Anyone recall other titles? It would be a fine and useful list. Whenever I had such anarchistic books I pushed them on my colleagues in the departments of eddicashun and on the student teachers and librarians. COUPONS would have been one.

Happy Holidays in this lovely pascal season.

Big Grandma

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Tue 26 Mar 2002 08:09:27 PM CST