Synopsis
Spend one unforgettable day inside the school of tomorrow.
What begins as a darkly funny dystopian adventure soon reveals something far more unsettling: every class you attend is inspired by real classroom experience.
Drawing from years as a teacher, including a track record of dramatically improving student achievement, Brett Thacker blends satire, suspense, and firsthand insight to expose what's gone wrong in modern education and explore how it can be restored.
The year is 2026. The future has arrived.
America’s last remaining teacher, Mr. Thacker, is on a mission to find others like him when he comes across you. Without any other options, he asks with you to enter his mysterious machine and travel back to school as a student.
Once inside, you experience a day in the life of a student in America’s public schools.
But this is not the school you remember.
Each class you attend exposes more unbelievable truths about today’s education system that most parents and adults never see firsthand; Teachers have vanished, replaced by Program Facilitators who keep students clicking instead of thinking, the evil District sabotages learning to serve their new masters, the Administration, in the name of research, enforce policies that masquerade as learning and discipline. And worst of all—the light has gone out of the eyes of all of the $tudents.
After every class, Mr. Thacker pulls back the curtain, revealing the real classroom experiences that inspired the fiction. Then he takes you back to his own first year teaching, uncovering how today's education system evolved into tomorrow's nightmare.
Grab your schedule and travel back...back to school.
Discover the answers to the questions no one has been able to solve.
Who is this Mr. Thacker and what is this machine he’s sent you back in?
What happened to all the teachers?
Who controls our schools?
Why can't our children learn?
Can you make it through your day back at school?
Will you save our students?
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Part satire, part memoir, part educational expose, and part blueprint for reform, this wickedly clever novel exposes the failures of modern public education while offering practical solutions to restore real learning. Join Brett Thacker, a teacher with a proven track record of dramatically improving student math proficiency and growth, on a heroic journey back to school to help save the future of our children and discover not only what's broken, but how it can be fixed. The year is 2026.it is the FutureAmerica's last remaining teacher, Mr. Thacker, is on a mission to find others like him when he comes across you. Without any other options, he pleads with you to enter the machine and travel back to school as a student.Once inside, you are taken on a journey through a day in the life of a student in America's public schools, although things aren't like the way you remembered them.Instead of striving to make the students smarter, the schools are now in the business of making money off the children. Their new masters, Edtech(TM), have infiltrated the school and instead of being taught, $tudents are now plugged in to Programs that feed The District with the data it needs to keep its funding.Each class you attend exposes more unbelievable truths about today's education system, that you, nor any other adult has any idea about; Teachers have been replaced by mindless program Facilitators, the evil District sabotages learning to serve their new masters, the Administration, in the name of research, enforces policies that masquerade as learning and discipline, but worst of all the light has gone out of the eyes of all of the $tudents.Grab your schedule and travel back.back to school. Get the answers to the questions no one has been able to solve. Who is this Mr. Thacker and what is this machine he's sent you back in? What happened to all the teachers? Who controls our schools? Why can't our children learn? Can you make it through your day back at school? Will you save our students? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798274158794
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A wickedly clever satire using comic inversions to offer telling insights into public education in America. Join award winning teacher, Brett Thacker, on a heroic journey back to school to save the future of our children.The year is 2026.it is the FutureAmerica's last remaining teacher, Mr. Thacker, is on a mission to find others like him when he comes across you. Without any other options, he pleads with you to enter the machine and travel back to school as a student.Once inside, you are taken on a journey through a day in the life of a student in America's public schools, although things aren't like the way you remembered them.Instead of striving to make the students smarter, the schools are now in the business of making money off the children. Their new masters, Edtech(TM), have infiltrated the school and instead of being taught, $tudents are now plugged in to Programs that feed The District with the data it needs to keep its funding.Each class you attend exposes more unbelievable truths about today's education system, that you, nor any other adult has any idea about; Teachers have been replaced by mindless program Facilitators, the evil District sabotages learning to serve their new masters, the Administration, in the name of research, enforces policies that masquerade as learning and discipline, but worst of all the light has gone out of the eyes of all of the $tudents.Grab your schedule and travel back.back to school. Get the answers to the questions no one has been able to solve. Who is this Mr. Thacker and what is this machine he's sent you back in? What happened to all the teachers? Who controls our schools? Why can't our children learn? Can you make it through your day back at school? Will you save our students? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798274158794
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