The Ayn Rand Institute has been offering free classroom sets of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, etc., and eternally-cash-poor schools have been snapping them up to the point that the Institute is temporarily out of Anthem and others. “All You Have to Do Is Teach the Book” the friendly Institute book request page says [...]
Archive for January, 2012
I Ayn’t Gonna Work on Randy’s Farm No More
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Why I Live in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Posted in Death to all things Internet, Life in Burque, Politics on January 11, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Trust me, I complain about it. Ask my friends. They can tell you that I’m a fairly reliable source for information about everything that’s wrong with Albuquerque and the State of New Mexico. Truth be told, I scoffed about that 100th Anniversary of Statehood bullshit. Bigtime. Perhaps deservedly there…that was pretty stupid. But let’s get [...]
Newly Hot For Teacher-Designate
Posted in Albuquerque Public Schools, Education, Life in Burque, Uncategorized on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This new school grading is so stupid. How can they give a letter grade to the efforts of an entire school? And how can they know about our school without visiting it and seeing the specific challenges and efforts were making to meet those challenges? This is all a political ploy to make us look [...]
Steve Martin as “The School Grade Jerk”
Posted in Albuquerque Public Schools, Distractions, Education on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
News has it the State is releasing its first A-F grades for every public school in New Mexico in coming days. This breathtaking news has the following famous movie exchange stuck in my head (updated for topicality): Navin R. Johnson: The new school grades are here! The new school grades are here! Schooteacher: Boy, I [...]
Following the Testing Monte
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t help but notice WordPress is now setup for shorter, Twitter-like, posts. As in…quit yammering so much. Too much writing makes the brain hurt, don’t it? I don’t know if I can keep this to 140 characters, but it’ll be short. Yesterday, I hear tell that high school sophomores will now be taking [...]
