The Onion's Hilarious Point/Counterpoint on TFA

Thanks to Southpaw for the laugh of the day.

From the kid's side:

You've got to be kidding me. How does this keep happening? I realize that as a fourth-grader I probably don't have the best handle on the financial situation of my school district, but dealing with a new fresh-faced college graduate who doesn't know what he or she is doing year after year is growing just a little bit tiresome. Seriously, can we get an actual teacher in here sometime in the next decade, please? That would be terrific.

Just once, it would be nice to walk into a classroom and see a teacher who has a real, honest-to-God degree in education and not a twentysomething English graduate trying to bolster a middling GPA and a sparse law school application. I don't think it's too much to ask for a qualified educator who has experience standing up in front of a classroom and isn't desperately trying to prove to herself that she's a good person.



Comments

Anonymous said…
I'd put "Hilarious" in quotation marks - what Kid Onion says is tragically true.

How's the Kipp-Kopp Kryme syndicate going to hire all those 6 figure a year hot shots without a gullible workforce working for peanuts, dedicated to working hard to get their "I worked to save the world" button on the way to their own 6 figure a year hot shot job?

"Hilarious"
7/17/12, 4:55 PM
Melissa Westbrook said…
"Kipp-Kopp Kryme syndicate?" Pure gold.
7/17/12, 7:00 PM
Anonymous said…
Actually, it was too sad to be funny. Is there any actual parody in there? minus an actual illustrative anecdote or two the TFa letter sounds exactly like the essay they all write.

zb
7/17/12, 7:15 PM
StopTFA said…
zb,

And the testimony they all gave at board meetings, histrionics included.
7/17/12, 7:24 PM
Lara said…
Laughed out loud. Nothing more effective than satire to deliver a punch.
7/18/12, 7:37 AM
dan dempsey said…
Unfortunately this piece illustrates the direction our state and nation are headed. The legislature, Guv, and Randy Dorn are all enthusiastic supporters of every word flowing from US Dept. of Education and the Big Money Ideologic Cartel... Common Core State Standards, charters, TFA, VAM teacher evaluation and Klipp-Klopp-Kryme etc.

Even though the legislature has seriously under-funded schools in violation of the State Constitution and will likely continue to underfund for the next 5 or so years... Rep. Eric Pettigrew pushes charters and every other reform advocated by the "Big Money Elite".
7/19/12, 12:04 PM
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