We don't know what class this was. Even if it was math, he has a point. If she's not going over the material with them, that is negligible.

I meant "negligent". Fuck.

He has every right to be pissed off. Texas ranks 49th in education spending(1), and his high school ranks in the bottom third of all high schools in the state(2). He's stuck in the worst of the worst, and being punished for understanding he deserves better than lazy teachers, cut-rate curriculums and shitty schools.

1) http://www.texasisd.com/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=34&num=135743
2) http://www.schooldigger.com/go/TX/schools/1764001524/school.aspx

It's not the teacher's fault they have to do it, but it's the teacher's fault that she doesn't care.

This kid is OK by me.

Ah, the rural South. Can't wait to leave.

True, it's not one persons fault. This kid isn't actually talking to this person, he's talking to a representative of a very broken system, and I'm glad this got recorded and is getting attention, even if it was shot in fucking portrait.

Children should be given photography classes from an early age if you ask me.

Counterpoint: my roommate at my apartment before last was a middle school teacher who refused to teach the prefab curriculum, advocated relentlessly, developed his own curriculum and after a few years he had affected major changes in the standard curriculum simply by setting an example and producing results. Of course, that was in heathen commie Boston so it's hardly the same thing.

Boston probably has, like, a union though. Retaliatory firings happen here. A lot of local career teachers just quit after more than twenty years and went to the media about how exactly Jindal's education plan has been going. If you want to make changes, you have to know you'll commit career seppuku.

Picking and choosing based on what you can afford to pick and choose that is.

FIVE STARS.