Last Week at Inequality Schools

This may be my last week, but it's no less absurd for all that.

What, anyway, do non-American parents really want when they want their children to be educated at an American school abroad?

Is it really necessary to read cute poems in archaic language?

Thismorning my class of teenagers had no interest in Emily Dickinson or Langston Hughes. I couldhardly blame them. What the hell am I supposed to do? Stand on my head to entertain them?

A good third of them are essentialy non-English speakers...

I cannot escape the impression that the institution is essentially fraudulent because it even allows those children to attend a class like the one I am supposed to be teaching..... yeah, they will improve, but are they really doing what you say they are doing?

I won't miss this.... not at all.....

Note:

Robin Dunbar's discussion in "Grooming, Gossip, etc." about page 42 about harassment among groups of primates seems to perfectly fit management techniques:

It's not necessary to be violent, only occassionally notify the lower clases of what their rank is... this is effective in, e.g., decreasing fertility among females....

viewed a certain way, it seems deeply fascistic

there's a need for someone to write a reply to Pinker's idea that biological approaches to human sociality somehow support freemarket capitalism.....