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snapping the bra of the girl in front of you count for anything recorded on the report card.
Remember, if you will, the motivation teachers inflicted on malingerers: If you don’t do well on your 8th-grade algebra test, you may flunk the class, never go to college, never get a good job and be the laughing stock of the entire town: “Oh, there’s goes McFarlane,” one townsperson might say to another years after failing that test. “He failed a math exam 14 years ago, flunked the course, never went to college and has been a bum ever since. Plus, I think he has dandruff. I know he can’t speak Spanish.”
So, instead of studying math the night before, some students worried the entire night about turning out like a bum.
Teachers held all the cards: It was their game, their rules, their deck.
But for students to grade their teachers, a far more subjective scale is needed.
It is the same scale parents must use to grade their school system.
There are simply not enough tests, not enough factors on which to assign a value and come up with a concrete appraisal of schools or those who work in them.
“He who can does," George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903. “He who can’t teaches." Woody Allen added, “He who can’t teach teaches gym."
That thrilled my gym-teaching father to no end.
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run, ” a cynical Mark Twain wrote in 1867.
“How do you thank someone who took you from crayons to perfume.’’— LuLu, in To Sir, With Love.
Now, before this turns into a soap-box sermon or editorial on teacher pay -
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