Comments on: That Now Falls Under… http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/01/that-now-falls-under/ providing parents with the truth about the public education system Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Anon E. Muss http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/01/that-now-falls-under/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Anon E. Muss Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:46:09 +0000 http://cheatinginclass.com/?p=656#comment-19 Well, as a teacher, the only way I got through meetings in the 90's and 'oughts' was by creating "Bullshit Bingo". Seriously, I made up bingo cards with all the education jargon we were being fed starting in the "reconstitution" days of Bierwirth, right up to Carole & crew's "Integrated Services" or whatever the hell it is. The first colleague to 'X' out a bingo sheet full of jargon didn't win anything other than proving how much crap we were being fed at teacher's meetings. As if putting a new moniker on something really changes it? Not in the PPS, just a new way to create a new administrative job (aren't there two "Integrated whatever" jobs currently posted online?), or recycle something that was around oh, a decade or two previously. BULLSHIT BINGO IS ALIVE AND WELL. Maybe P.A.T, could hold bingo nights on Fridays for teachers, giving prizes? Sounds like fun! Wish I'd saved my lists of all the programs and wordage over the years. Here's a sampling: pods, communities, small schools, conversations, stakeholders, academies, etc. Then there are all the acronyms: IEP, ELL, ESL, FAP, OAKS, etc. What's in a name, anyway? Well, as a teacher, the only way I got through meetings in the 90′s and ‘oughts’ was by creating “Bullshit Bingo”. Seriously, I made up bingo cards with all the education jargon we were being fed starting in the “reconstitution” days of Bierwirth, right up to Carole & crew’s “Integrated Services” or whatever the hell it is. The first colleague to ‘X’ out a bingo sheet full of jargon didn’t win anything other than proving how much crap we were being fed at teacher’s meetings.

As if putting a new moniker on something really changes it? Not in the PPS, just a new way to create a new administrative job (aren’t there two “Integrated whatever” jobs currently posted online?), or recycle something that was around oh, a decade or two previously.

BULLSHIT BINGO IS ALIVE AND WELL. Maybe P.A.T, could hold bingo nights on Fridays for teachers, giving prizes? Sounds like fun!

Wish I’d saved my lists of all the programs and wordage over the years. Here’s a sampling: pods, communities, small schools, conversations, stakeholders, academies, etc. Then there are all the acronyms: IEP, ELL, ESL, FAP, OAKS, etc.

What’s in a name, anyway?

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