"From Bad To Badder"
That's where New York City schools are going, if a recent curriculum guide is any indication. According to a New York Daily News story by Joe Williams, the guide urged teachers to:

ï"Crate [create] a balance bean [beam] with masking tape."

ï"Think about a time when your family work together."

ïIdentify "student strengthens and weaknesses."

ïRead a story about a fish with "shinning," instead of shining, scales.

"When I see this it breaks my heart," said one Queens teacher. "It's bad enough that the kids can't read and write."

Bloopers litter page after page in the separate guides for elementary, middle and high schools.

Educators were quick to point out that the error-ridden lesson plans came straight from the top - and at a time when fewer than half of city students can read at grade level.

"If a teacher handed in something like this, he or she would be raked over the coals, if not fired," said teachers union President Randi Weingarten.

Education Department bigwigs wrote the guides to help teachers explain a new discipline code to students - "so that everyone understands how serious we all are in making schools that is safe for student's body's, Schools that is safe for students' feelings, And schools that are safe for student's ideas," the error-filled document states.

I guess it's a little two much too ask four schools to teech students somepin, huh?

(via Reason.com)