Join The Revolution

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

These Beatles lyrics have been swimming in my brain all day because I WANT A REVOLUTION in education. I am so sick of it all. I want destruction of the system as it now stands. I want to start over, giving kids an education that means something, an education that will help them become outstanding citizens and be able to provide for themselves and their families.

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

This destruction, I want a part of. I want to do away with forcing kids to take meaningless classes. If a kid tells me one more time that line segments in a circle add up to 180 degrees, I am going to jump out the window. If I look at another IEP goal that says Jenny will graduate and go to college, I will hang myself. If I hear one more teacher griping about having to maintain the same standards that existed when they were in high school ten years ago, I might just slug them. If just once more I am forced to sit through a meeting talking about Johnny's goal of having an organized notebook, well, I don't know what I will do. It seems to me that if Johnny hasn't learned this by now he might never be able to learn this.

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan

I want a plan that does not involve boot camps, credit recovery and other crap. No more of this dribble just to get these kids out.

You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can

We are not doing what we can. We are doing what is easy. It is much easier to go along with the status quo than to fight it. No one wants a real plan because a real plan costs money. A real plan might be politically incorrect. Mayor Money Bags and his bunch of stooges and President Change think teachers are the problem. Yes, there are bad teachers, but not all. Money is not going to make me or anyone else better at what we do.

But when you want money
for people with minds that hate

Maybe the minds don't hate, but they certainly don't love. The current education system is set up to doom future generations to failure. The elitist running the system want it that way. They want lots of ignorant people around to do their bidding. The Mark Weprin's of the world are looking to extend mayoral control of the city's schools are taking our tax money and pissing it away. They are allowing people like Evil Moskowitz to keep opening her charter schools, schools running at the expense of all others. Another elitist, Merryl Tisch, a woman who has absolutely no public school experience was just chosen chancellor of education for NYS. She might not hate, but her ignorance of public school life is more than enough to do us in.

All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah

Brother, it is not going to be all right. We need a revolution and we need it now!