In a day and age when Educare has become grossly commercial I received this in my mail this morning from my brother-in-law (himself a teacher).
But are these documents real?
On its web site, the New Hampshire Historical Society writes that “the sources for these ‘rules’ are unknown; thus we cannot attest to their authenticity—only to their verisimilitude and charming quaintness.” “The rules from 1872 have been variously attributed to an 1872 posting in Monroe County, Iowa; to a one-room school in a small town in Maine; and to an unspecified Arizona schoolhouse. The 1915 rules are attributed to a Sacramento teachers’ contract and elsewhere to an unspecified 1915 magazine.” According to Snopes, the fact-checking web site, the 1872 list has been “displayed in numerous museums throughout North America,” over the past 50 years, “with each exhibitor claiming that it originated with their county or school district.” Heck, the lists even appeared in the venerated Washington Post not so long ago. Here are the rules:
I suggest that instituting merit raises, getting back to basics, marrying the university to industry,
and. other recommendations will not achieve measurable success [in restoring quality to American
education] until something even more basic is returned to practice. The immediate need for our educational
system from pre kindergarten through post-Ph.D. is not more money or better teaching but simply a
widespread giving of F's.
Before hastily dismissing the idea as banal and simplistic, think for a moment about the
implications of a massive dispensing of failing grades. It would dramatically, emphatically, and
immediately force into the open every major issue related to the inadequacies of American education.
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