Earl Nissen: A nightmare of school reform in New Mexico
I just had the worst nightmare and needed to write about it.
It is February 1, 2017. President Jeb Bush just appointed Andy Nunez as secretary of interior because of his strong statement on making wolves extinct. Susana Martinez was made secretary of state because of her background as a gun-toting DA and believing in making all people not equal but the same.
Hannah Skandera became governor and appointed Stan Rounds as education secretary.
The Koch Brothers were given a non-competitive contract to build a learning cubicle for children called the Freedom Accelerator of Knowledge Environment. New Mexico was now a Right to Work state so the Kochs built a plant in Hatch (now wolf free) for making the FAKE where they could hire a lot of undocumented and pay them minimum wage. They would not sell the cubicles but only lease them to school districts.
Charlie was born August 29, 2012 making him eligible to start kindergarten on September 1, 2017. He would be one of the youngest in his class. His parents were well meaning people but both had to work minimum-wage jobs. Charlie spent a lot of time in day care and before he could take the Kindergarten Entrance Exam, Pearson/Skandera, he had to take the Children, Youth & Families Department Pearson Transition to Kindergarten from Day Care Inventory. On his CYFDDPTKDCI, Charlie scored low in keyboarding, etch-a sketch and the war game called Catch a Democrat. This flagged him as a potential learning problem.
Then he took the KEEPS, based on the CORE, which showed that he, at 5, could only count to 1,000, do two-digit adding, could only read the first two words of the Star Spangled Banner and that his favorite animal was the frog. All this information was sent online to his parents, who did not have a computer, and to the Pearson programmer.
On the first day of kindergarten, Charlie was shown his 4x4x4 cubicle with his name on it and was seated in front of the computer screen. His password was GOP2035 (year he can vote). Punched this in and his name lit up and a frog appeared and announced through the headset "I am your teacher. Give me a name." Charlie only knew how to spell his favorite aunt's name, Jill. Typed in Jill and she said, "Now I will dance every time you get something right but will be angry when Earl Nissen: A nightmare of school reform in New Mexico - Silver City Sun-News:
