The N&O’s Under the Dome blog reports that N.C. Association of Educators president Eddie Davis is questioning state schools Superintendent June Atkinson on her spending on three pamphlets, and their timing. Davis, a rival of Atkinson in the upcoming Democratic primary, wonders if “public dollars are being spent to produce campaign literature and to favor the incumbent office holder during the onset of a political season.”
One of the publications is, as Stoop just mentioned, “The Three Little Pigs and the Graduation Project.” Read it. I dare you. A more cloying, self-impressed work of condescending claptrap you would be hard-pressed to find.
Here is, for example, the “school of straw” whose lack of offering a “graduation project” to the “little teenage pigs” leaves them at risk of having their high-school diploma blown away by the “big, bad 21st century wolf”:
This was a school where all the desks were in rows. The teachers lectured every day for about 45 minutes and students took notes. The little pigs were not allowed to use any technology in doing their work. The little pigs were assessed on how many facts and figures they could memorize. All of their tests were bubble in the answer. The little pigs were not allowed to work in teams, nor were they ever asked to use creativity or to solve problems. …
