Education

Somebody from the state of California visited my class today and asked me if I was doing any teaching. Well, she wondered if I knew the acronym or program abbreviation that accompanied each student and how I "differentiated instruction." Essentially, this person gets paid $100,000 to walk around with a clipboard and annoy people.

I consider her presence a profound insult, for it assumes that if the state (cat) doesn't go to schools, the school staff (mice) would just lounge around and show videos.

The primary offendees aren't even the teachers: The state bureaucracy thinks that the parents are too stupid to vote for responsible council members or walk around themselves and make sure somebody's teaching. The principal and the teachers, in turn, don't care about the students or the parents- only about the state inspectors. Let me put it another way: State bureaucrats care more about the children of Huntington Park then their parents, their teachers, or Huntington Park's residents.

Let's say it were true- that everybody in Huntington Park neglected the students. What would the state do? If parents don't care and the school can't find teachers who do, the jig's up, no?