Canadian High School enters the International Administrator Duh-Lympics!

Here's a short blurb from the Great White North for you all. While I often think that the US (my adopted homeland) holds a monopoly on socialist school teachers, clueless goverment automatons and irrational politicians, it would seem that my birth country of Canada is picking up steam when it comes to fostering idiotism as a profession.

Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton Canada (famous alma mater includes absolutely nobody) has disciplined a teacher for awarding a grade of zero to a student that did nothing. This teacher, with 35 years under his belt, and is well liked by all - threw in the towel, accepted the suspension and decided to retire rather than suffer the ignominy of dealing with the mental atoms on the school board any longer.

"Students should be accountable. That's against what I've been doing my whole career because I believe the student should be accountable for what they're doing." Dorval said he always gave uncompleted work what is called "reluctant  zeros," where his students were given a number of opportunities to make  up the assignment and have the zero replaced with a mark. "Most of my students did that," he said. "By the end of the year, I hardly had any zeros at all."Asked why the school board would encourage teachers to make up marks in order to pass students, Dorval stated, "It's what they call social promotion. It's a way of pushing kids through even though they're not actually doing the work. It's a way of getting them through, getting their credits and of course making the staff look very good."  Teachers were instructed to use their "informed professional judgement" at the end of the year when handing out marks, he said.

Student reaction to suspension was as predicted:

"He shouldn't even be teaching anymore. If he wants to hand out zeros, he should be doing some other job — not a teacher."

—Ryan Grouette, Grade 10

"If students show up they deserve a minimum mark. A zero seems a bit extreme."

—Cindy Smith, Grade 11

Here's where KC brings it all home for you - my sort of "Jerry Springer" sums it all up in one minute vignette.

Cindy, Ryan - I've got news for you, you precious little snowflakes. Your parents lied to you. The school and all your teachers lied to you - with the exception of Mr. Dorval. The real world will give you a zero every frigging day of your life, and will do so with relish. With glee. There are 500 million kids in third world countries that will paint a giant, flourescent "0" on your ass everyday. With relish. With glee.

In the real world - there are no "participation awards" or "I came to work so I should be paid bonuses". If you just show up to work, you don't get paid. You get fired. If you show up to work and work hard and contribute, and create wealth, you get paid, and eventually bonused. Or you go somewhere else, or you start your own business.

I am an executive in a financial services company. And let me assure you, you precious little snowflakes, all unique and special - I hand out zeros everyday. Because I have to, so that I don't get a zero. And that's how it works. And if you don't understand that, and your parents can't get you to understand that - start barista training immediately. But seriously - even Tim Horton's hands out zeros.

Mr. Dorval has been sacrificed. He can do no more good for you two imbeciles, or for any other kid for that matter. Teachers with the honor, courage, intellect and comportment to teach these days are a rare breed, and there are very few left. In fact, the rolls have shrunk by one.

The teacher unions encourage these low standards in order to get paid for work they haven't done - essentially fleecing the taxpayer by providing shoddy goods and services.

Hard working Canadians that fill up their lunch box and go to work everyday to avoid getting a zero should speak up. Before the world teaches your kids what a zero really is.

Game on.


To read the sad story:

http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120531/edm_zero_120531/20120531/?hub=EdmontonHome#.T8f5ELC97pg.mailto

To malign the school's chief opponent of zeros, write here:

ron.bradley@epsb.ca

May the omnipresent diety respective of your individual belief system

In this age of political correctness to the nth degree, these morons that facilitate the public dis-education of kids have now set their sights firmly on whether or not "God Bless the USA" is an appropriate theme for children to acknowledge.

The superintendent of Bellingham Public Schools released a statement Wednesday stating that students will now be allowed to sing or not sing “God Bless the USA” during an upcoming assembly at Stall Brook Elementary School. “Political correctness is certainly a consideration in the public sector,” Superintendent Edward Fleury wrote in a statement posted on the district’s website.

“Students will be allowed to sing or not sing the words ‘God Bless the USA’ as they sing in celebration of their acquired knowledge,” he said.

Since the uber-left leaning politics infused indoctrinators of Marxist beliefs seemingly have a beef with the words "God" and "USA",  Ketchup Chips thinks that it is appropriate to assist Lee Greenwood by re-writing the title of his award winning song to more accurately reflect the Maoist ideals prevalent in our school system, and allow ALL precious little snowflakes to sing with gusto. Here goes. Instead of "God Bless the USA" let's try these:

May the omnipresent diety respective to your individual belief system bestow good tidings upon this non-specific geographic area

or -

Invisible, un-proven and scientifically suspect source of inspiration for the less educated, please facilitate beneficial situations and conditions to the locale in which we live, despite our having wrested away physical ownership from indigineous peoples creating the confrontational and economically oppressive marginalization of all peoples....

and lastly,

There is no god, and if there was, he or she most certainly would be gay. So screw you, you woman hating, nazi loving, race-baiting, white supremacist, homophobe, xeonphobe, knuckle dragging, war mongering, bible thumping, bigot.

In thy mercy....