Survey Story

 Look, I've tried to make sense out of this story from Minnesota that came out yesterday.  The basic situation is that a teacher (unnamed so far) handed out a survey to fourth-grade kids.  Topic of the survey?  Equity.  Yes, posed to mostly ten-year old kids.  

So the chief question....what gender do you identify as?  

Kids sat there in the class....confused.  So they asked if it were OK to ask their parents for help in answering the survey.  'No' was the response from the teacher.

It wasn't just one of the questions....various questions were not understood by the fourth-grade crowd.

Naturally, this has gotten a lot of parents upset.

So I pondered upon this.

Most fourth-grade boys are mostly into Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, or Space Ghost.  

Most fourth-grade girls are mostly into Barbie, Backstreet Boys, or Taylor Swift.

Out of a 25-student class....there might be one intellectual kid who knows about equity and gender-garbage, and might be answering the questions of the survey.  In the 1970s....you (the whole class itself) would have latched onto 'Marvin' (class genius)....got his input of the answer, and just copied it.

Another student of the 1970s class....'Woody', would have gone home....typed up the survey in a whole fashion....asking if the teacher were to be graded as a Nazi or Fascist.....how do you rate them from one to ten?   He would have handed this in, and that night at home....Teacher Wanda would have read the piece and just freaked out that some kid considered her a '9' as a Nazi.

The question here....exactly what of value are you teaching in school, and would you just be better off with a home-school situation?

As for the answer to the gender question....just always answer that you felt feelings of being a 'Walrus', and would like body/gender modification surgical business to convert over.  Be insistent though....you only want to be a male Walrus, and you want the name Odysseus.