Teacher unions are at a fault to some extent. Some people just blame tenure as a problem in the education world (acting like a teacher on tenure is untouchable which is not true, you basically cannot fire them at-will, which the almighty charter schools hire you as: At-will employees).

And I worked at shitty charter school where the private sector blew their budget before the month of September and teachers were buying everything out of pocket, had no IEPs made 3 months into the season, and so on. Nothing was better, but I am sure the layer of shit as we called them (the higher-ups) made some nice…

While I am here
Again I hate high stakes testing. As a social studies teacher it basically fucks us (districts have fired whole social studies departments as the subject is less important than English and Math and might as well have Coach Billy Bob teach it). And then you have NYC with asshat Joe Klein where you can…

I really wish the idea of a "neighborhood school" would somehow make a comeback. I live in a city where kids go to all different kinds of schools (magnet, gifted, some charter, normal, etc.) but not really a neighborhood school.

As a wannabe educator
I am looking forward to this movie (though I am not sure if I necessarily agree with everything he says in this movie). I am not completely against charter schools, but I am against the idea that they are the cure for our country's educational problem (and I was hoping this movie would be more…

I definitely love it and I agree 100%. Plus I like quoting Danny McBride's line about going home and doing your motherfucking homework.

I saw both The Town and Easy A on Sunday. I liked The Town a whole lot. I would have enjoyed Easy A more if the audience wasn't full of tweens on their cell phones and some retarded kids behind me who talked the whole time and kept up getting up and walking out and coming back in during the movie.

You know who might be good…
Michael Keaton.

Really AVClub
We get 8 pages and no one mentions The Wire. "Got to, it's America man."

Clone High was great, definitely need to find that show on DVD/Netflix.

Too bad
That Stephanie Meyer and teens (40 year old wannabe teens) ruined vampires for the world.

I agree
Education over incarceration any day of the week.

Yes.

Looking forward
To how they waste a talented cast in the next one.

The GOP is full of assholes, it makes me sick to see them intentionally fuck up anything positive coming out from the other side. Bush was lucky enough to have a terrorist attacks hit this country to make the Democrats into bigger pussies then what they usually are to pass crap like NCLB. Fuck it, I shouldn't bitch…

Now
Whenever anyone tells me we are going through the worst economic times since the Great Depression, I can say: The Situation made 5 million dollars in 2010, the only great depression is what I went through when I heard that news.

Who are the best 21st century novelist right now anyway? I tend to stay out of fiction and read mostly non-fiction, but I am open for some ideas of who to look to. I have The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers right now from the library but haven't got into it yet.

I really liked the book as well, but I have not read Everything is Illuminated yet. I am not sure about the casting yet, but the key would be who is playing the boy.

MTV had a contest for someone to become their official MTV twitterer…is it now a career? I don't have a job, I can twitter!

He has been the star in 5 movies that broke 100 million. 3 of which are The Mummy and it sequels (the other 2, Journey to the Center of the Earth and George of the Jungle). Unless you count his cameo in G.I. Joe.