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    Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths: The REAL Problems in Education
    Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths: The REAL Problems in Education
    Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths: The REAL Problems in Education
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    Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths: The REAL Problems in Education

    By Christopher T. Cassidy

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    "Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths" provides a 'from the trenches' view of schools exposing the real problems with the educational process in the United States and elsewhere. It illustrates how a lack of student accountability and discipline, self-esteem myths, special education, crazy parents, cowering administrators, and other factors are killing the effectiveness of schools and jeopardizing the future of this country.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 5, 2014
    ISBN9781483538020
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      Tax Dollars Creating Sociopaths - Christopher T. Cassidy

      ISBN: 9781483538020

      Basic premise of this book: Planet Earth is doomed. It's our fault. No, I'm not talking about global warming or impending world wars. I'm referring to the current social and educational pendulum swing we are currently enduring, or depending on who you are, causing. Maybe doomed is too strong a word, but the game is changing. As the economy globalizes more every day, we (the USA) are becoming more like them (other countries) and they are becoming more like us. Countries that once had are now relinquishing and the countries that didn't are now getting, or better yet, taking. Things will never go back to the way they were. For any country to survive this storm, education is at the root of all this, starting at a very young age: birth. It's among the first things we, as humans, experience. It will guide our paths to our dreams or destroy our lives as we know them, depending on how it unfolds. Destroy? Too strong a word? No, not at all. Hopefully, if you're a parent, you realize that education doesn't begin when you first drop your child off at kindergarten.

      More specifically, the premise of this book is that education has been at a fork in the road, and has chosen the wrong direction. I'm not just talking about the United States and No Child Left Behind, either. This is a global problem whose beginnings were long ago. So, where can we point the finger? There is plenty of blame to go around, but you may have to look in the mirror. If you find yourself already antagonized by reading these first couple of paragraphs, brace yourself for the rest of this book. This book may just antagonize a great many people, provided a great many people read it. Parents, teachers, counselors, school administrators, school boards, even students, and concerned citizens will be agitated, but all for very different reasons. My goal is mostly to irritate into action the latter of this group--concerned citizens...by telling true stories, presenting crucial questions, and exposing the resource drains scattered about most schools. This is not an ivory-tower-reinvent-the-human-brain-even-though-I've never-taught-real-students-to-justify-my-existence-at-my-university-type book. What you will read are real-life anecdotes from the trenches of education, not the latest educational bandwagons we should be jumping on and why they are so great. You will hopefully come to understand the real problems that face educational institutions, some that many teachers may not even realize.

      By now you're probably thinking, who is this guy who claims to have all the answers about education and why is he writing this book? Well, first of all, I don't have all the answers. I certainly have suggestions, but there are no quick answers to the problems outlined in this book. Who am I? Well, if you paid attention to the previous paragraph, you'd probably gather I'm not a university professor. Would it make you keep reading if I told you I was a 35-year veteran of education, as a teacher, counselor, and administrator who worked in 6 different schools ranging from elementary to secondary? Sorry to disappoint you. If you're hoping I'm a politician, put this book down and go about your business--this book isn't for you.

      Nope, I'm just a disgruntled 12-year veteran teacher of public high schools, with a couple of detours into the business world (where I originally started) who has also coached three sports and taught abroad. I'm the guy you hear about who gave it his very best as long as he could, but eventually got tired of fighting the system. At the same time, the system probably got tired of fighting me. (No, I did not get fired.) Would it matter to you that I also have a master's degree? I hope not, since it has given me no more insight into education than the average school janitor would have. (Most janitors can probably tell you more about what goes on in their schools than their school board members or administrators, by the way.) If it matters to you, I do also have a degree in business, emphasizing economics, political science, and organizational psychology. I'm not sure in what ways these areas of study have given me any insight, but they surely haven't hurt me. I've taught subjects ranging from advanced placement economics to marketing to consumer education and computer applications to kids of all socio-economic backgrounds. As I write this, I teach English at a private academy in Spain to students aged 4 to 60.

      Like many of my colleagues, I was a moderately popular teacher amongst students and colleagues who, for much of my career, enjoyed coming to work every day and hoped to make a positive difference in a few lives. That was until the game changed. More on that later.

      As for the second question, why I'm writing this book: There are the obvious problems with schools, and then the not-so-obvious. You probably don't have to be told that if you own property and live within 100 miles of a public school, a large portion of your property taxes are probably going towards its funding. Therefore, you would hope that money and resources at the schools you’re funding are well-spent. This is an obvious part. That being said, some of the not-so-obvious wastes of that money and other resources explained in this book will surprise you, anger you, and hopefully educate you. If I succeed as a writer, this being my first book, hopefully it will entertain you as well. Education isn't all doom and gloom. (Believe me, I'd much rather write a fact-based political mystery that could be made into a movie, but I'm not quite that creative.) I hope to generate new conversations instead of the same old tail-chasing arguments wrapped up in shiny new packages that come around about every 10 years.

      Though many teachers worldwide are underpaid, I never complained about my hours worked or pay, for two reasons: it's the career I chose, and I was fortunate enough to work in well-paying schools. Working conditions and being respected as a professional? Well, those are other stories. Many of my former colleagues have found themselves in an unfortunate predicament: they hate their jobs but can't quit, due to financial or familial obligations, or due to the notion that after you are a teacher for long enough, it's very difficult to change careers. To be clear, they still enjoy the act and rewards of teaching, but despise the other things that go with it. This book will ask this question (among others): Is this who you want teaching our kids? People just biding their time until retirement? Many other colleagues of mine have quit and pursued other careers. These were respected, good teachers--some of the best in their schools. Some were also coaches of state champions and have undoubtedly shaped lives forever. These are some of

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