Can Waterboarding Improve Education?
What is the deal with waterboarding? It is still all over the news. So lets see what Senator Bond has to say about the subject. Like swimming eh? Sounds like he thinks that torture is OK sometimes. Maybe we should ask the families of lynching victims or some Holocaust survivors about what torture is like.
As an educator I am constantly questioning the whys and hows. I was thinking that maybe the NEA or AFT should invite the senators over for a waterboarding party. It'll be an invitation for them to tell us what they really know about education. Since knowledge gained from that process is supposedly good info then the senators could use their own intelligence to fix NCLB.
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Just stumbled across your blog - as a former math and physics teacher I found pure joy in your title as well as slogan. And indeed, NCLB has amazing similarities to the goals of waterboarding. The end justifies ....
Tom Hanson
Editor
OpenEducation.net
Tom,
Thanks for you positive comment. Not many educators comment so yours is appreciated.
I don't know from waterboarding, but I've long thought teachers should start spanking kids again. If it will help bring order back into the public schools and empower teachers, I'm all for it. Sure, there may be a sadistic a**hole here and there, but the sooner a kid learns that there are people like that out there, the better. He or she will eventually encounter one in the workplace one day, so why not learn how to deal with it early?
This is an especially easy position to take since I don't have kids!
I am not sure about spanking students. I just don't have it in me.
But there is no questions students don't respect their education and what it can do for them.
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