& not lackluster. he was not allowed to teach, basically. just to follow a damaging scheduled script without deviation.

& btw: america's most innovative era was its era of mass education & cheap to free college.

the new world will be much less innovative and the benefits of innovation will be less widely diffused. fact.

This is a powerful video. I am sorry that the school system you work in made it so difficult to carry out your educational philosophy. I too am thinking about finding a way out of the public school system. The pressure to perform to an unattainable standard has caused a great deal of stress on myself and my colleagues. I fear that Common Core Standards and teacher evaluations tied to student test scores will cause many teachers to leave and those that leave will be the ones most committed to the success of the students.

They will do it by hook or by crook, especially the crook end of it.

I am somebody who knows from experience.

experience is nothing, so I have deleted my useless comments.

All we can do is despair.

It's really a crapshoot in education. If you have a great boss, you are allowed a career, but if you don't, he or she can ruin you and easily.

You don't have to be a "bad" teacher to have your career and life destroyed by these people.

I wish you hadn't deleted your remarks. I was merely saying that it is not that simple to avoid people who are crazy or unscrupulous. They always up the ante even after you do something they like.

were initially targeted at poor, inner city communities, so also are elementary schools the targets of the standardized everything curriculum where all grade level teachers serve up the same canned lessons on the same day at the same time that they didn't create themselves, where subjects like art and PE, which are not amenable to standardized testing, are reduced or eliminated, where kids are marched everywhere they go and administrators are forced to skulk around seeing that everyone is "engaged in the learning process" i.e standardized test training, the scores of which will be used to evaluate the competence of teachers, students and administrators. This is the educational model of totalitarian states and oligarchies. Dickens would have seen it for what it is. With all due respect to the gentleman who made this video, I must disagree with his conclusion. We are now into the authoritarian, police state phase on our transition to the "New World Order", the gentleman shouldn't be out of the classroom, he should be in it, doing everything within his power to subvert education reform and teach the kids what they need to know, not what the oligarchs want them to know. He should be doing everything in his power to make public schools the incubators of future leaders like the ones the the oligarchs send their kids to and not training centers for the next generation of cubicle drones, cannon fodder and prisoner inmates.