This ignorance must stop!!

I was recently at a place, and was sitting there listening quite hapily as the person was talking about a certain non-government school, when they said..."See, the public schools are not capable of producing leaders......" Now, The Talking Teacher must say that there are very few things that can cause the blood pressure to rise and the heart rate to increase, but upon hearing this ignorant statement, was forced to make a comment to rebuttle such foolishness....

While at the barber shop, the Talking Teacher did not feel like engaging in political or educational conversation, and was quietly reading the newspaper, when this statement was received by his auditory canal...."yeah she used to teach in govment school, but now she is about to teach at ********* (undisclosed non-government school) so if they want her, she must be good. In fact, her family is s exited for her, now that she has stepped up...." The Talking Teacher immediately threw down the paper that was being read, and immediately burst into a cacophony of reasons as to why that statement was so ignorant.


Scenario 3- The Talking Teacher also gets upset at statements such as... "I hear that ******* ******* is a good primary school, or ***** is a bad one" grrrrrrrrr- ignorance abounds!!!! Especially when these types of statements come from our educators- "My children start school in September, which primary school is a good one?" or how about "yeah *****'s children were about to go into ******** primary or ****** middle in September , but I had to tell them that was not a "good" school..."


SUCH IGNORANCE!!!!!!!!!!! ACtually it goes beyond IGNORANCE it is more and I take blogging liberty to use this term.... "IGNANCE" Just plain "IGNANT"!!!!!!!!!!!


Which leads us to a new term. This term was coined just last week, and it perfectly describes all of the hatred and fear that people express towards our government school, are you ready for it? SCHOOLISM!!! You read it right- SCHOOLISM!!!!!!!

What is racism? The ignarant fear or belief about a certain race.

You have sexism, the thought based on ignarance that one sex is better then the other....

There are many more isms, but I introduce to you a new one- SCHOOLISM!! All of the above scenarios fall into the category of schoolism, or schoolist thought. This schoolist thought is viral and is tantamount to nonsense- unmitigated nonsense!!!!

So sometimes you have to waste your time fighting lies, combating schoolists and the weeds of ignarance that spring up in their trail, but be encouraged..as the late Dr. Martin Luther King jr. said.."I have a dream....." one day, we will push and fight equally for all of our young scholars, that they will not be judged by the name of their alma mater, bu tby the content and quality of their work....


Let's work today to stomp out the schoolist thought.