In the last couple of weeks, I’ve gained a bunch of new followers, so I thought I’d just reintroduce myself.
I’m an ex-California public school teacher who watched the system degrade into near-universal failure from 2001-2022. My initial work was to explain the systemic incentives that have robbed millions of kids of a proper education. If you want to understand exactly how things have gone so wrong, I linked the first in a series of five articles explaining how the very structure of public school has been vaporized below.
My new goal is to bring you the simple structures I use in my day-to-day practice as a classroom teacher in a classical charter to get outsized gains in teaching kids what it means to be a Good American. (It’s slow work though because my nine-to-five is more like a seven-to-ten; that’s what it takes to scale this up to 150 kids.)
More will be coming soon. For now, if you have the stomach for it, the articles below will help you understand where we are so you can start building a Plan B for your family, even if you can’t fully exit the K12 system.
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