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=Son of Six=

Florida Schools Legislation 2011

 * //What is Son of Six?//**
 * //a) The son of Frankenstein. b) A serial killer a la Son of Sam? c) Cousin of the '666' Antichrist Damian from "The Omen". e) proposed Florida school legislation. e) All of the above. If you picked 'e) All of the above' on this standardized test, you are in for the bright future that all standardized tests hold for us.//**

Get our children ready for the future; Fill their heads with bubbles.
===Every weekday, I drive to work at 7 in the morning to teach at the public schools, happy to know that our wise representatives in Tallahassee are ensuring that our next generation of young people will be ready for the future by filling their heads with bubbles.===

===When I voted a couple of weeks ago, I think I did an excellent job of voting for every single candidate who supported that balanced, well-reasoned education proposal called Senate Bill 6, which very rightly paid us teachers based on our subservience to the testing forces, and required state-sanctioned, standardized testing of our students in every single subject, including such frivolous subjects as art, music, auto mechanics, debate, journalism, etc., which would be tested more while they are cut.=== ===I’m proud to say that I batted 100% on my picks in the voting booth. I think I did an excellent job of bubbling in every single one of my choices on the ballot. Filled in the entire circle. Didn't go outside the lines too much. In fact, I called my mother after I was done and told her what a good job I had done bubbling. Posted it on Facebook too.=== ===I credit my outstanding performance at bubbling my votes to the countless hours I have spent administering tests in the public schools, and watching my students perfect their craft. It's not "Practice makes perfect," according to a colleague, but "perfect practice" that makes perfect performance.=== ===With my bubbled-in votes, I rewarded the courageous stance of those Senate Bill 6 representatives, who, despite the almost universal disgust of students, parents, school boards, superintendents, and the professionals that are the backbone of their school system, voted their consciences and not the will of their political and corporate masters.=== ===Even though they are centralizing schooling to the state level, legislators intend to honor voters' wish for smaller government by reducing the definition of education to only what is quantifiable by bubbles.=== ===To be fair, representatives on both sides of the aisle in the federal government should also be credited for the vast school improvements we have seen through the expansion of testing through the "Leave No Child Behind" legislation. Also, many of the representatives on both the state and federal levels are lawyers, so all their benevolent attention to schooling can be seen as their warm-hearted thanks for the average of 19 years of schooling we put them through.===

===While we, growing up, took one standardized test a year, my students took at least 14 standardized tests last year, which, of course, has led to a 1400% increase in my students’ knowledge and ability. Watching my students perfect their bubbling skills has definitely had a tremendous impact on my life and well being, and, of course, by extension, on that of our communities.=== ===And my students are ready for the future. When I asked them today, "Do you want more testing?", they jumped up and down in their seats with anticipation. Forget about writing, speaking, and other real-life skills, they told me, just give us more tests.=== ===Students will earn their way, proving their obedience to the system by bubbling tests or risk being denied government and corporate opportunities. Our original system of education, which was really a non-system of self-reliance, is a thing of the past. Nowadays there will be be generous handouts, but the students must fill these handouts with bubbles.=== ===Their parents are ready too, hard-working parents often with two or more jobs, if they still have them. They are proud that their charitable contributions to the state, which are by far the load of state coffers, will be going for more testing of their children.===

Parents and students alike are ecstatic that the billions of dollars that they lent Rick Scott and Columbia/HCA were returned with Scott's generous ad campaign.
===Former, 3-time New York teacher of the year, John Taylor Gatto, has rightly pointed out that our economy is now best at producing bubbles, and what better way to prepare students for the new economy than to fill their heads with bubbles?=== ===Think of the bright future that we are creating with all of these energetic, young people who really know how to bubble. I look forward to their ability to take part in the dynamics of our electoral system when it is time for them to exercise their highly developed, independent judgment by bubbling the same ballots that I bubbled this month.=== ===Our confidence in the competitive horse race that we call our political system, and especially with regard to the future of our young people, inspires me to new heights of intensity in preparing my students for the indoctrination… I mean, education, that awaits them.===

Media coverage
[|Successor to controversial teacher pay bill brewing in Tallahassee. jacksonville.com, 11-19-10] [|New teacher merit pay details emerge. Jacksonville.com, 11/18/10]

Last updated 9/18/12