FAQ
- What is Rotten Apples?
- What is a RAT?
- Who is Snoop?
- What do you mean America’s War on Education?
- Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind that America stinks. Explain!
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What is Rotten Apples?
Rotten Apples is the reality-TV documentary that follows one man’s journey from the world of business to the front lines of America’s War on Education. You get to follow along, step-by-step, as Snoop qualifies for the transition to teaching program, passes subject area exams, hunts for a job, gets hired, deals with the salary, is indoctrinated into a public school, teaches and grades papers, deals with the administration and Teachers’ Union, meets with parents and ultimately you get to decide for yourself where and if the system is broken.
What is a RAT?
A RAT is a Rotten Apple Teacher. You know the kind: he slaps a transparency on the overhead and reads the newspaper while students waste their time copying notes by hand. The one who gives no homework, but in class assigns “busy work.” Sometimes (but not always) they have a title, like Coach.
Who is Snoop?
He’s your ordinary American: lazy, broke and egotistical. He thinks that, with no real training whatsoever, he can make a difference in public schools. He thinks that he can teach better than the professional teachers. Snoop has to remain anonymous…or he’ll probably be fired!
What do you mean America’s War on Education?
Grades are slipping, students are graduating without meeting requirements, teachers are bailing out of the industry at alarming rates, government spending is up–way up–but those dollars don’t seem to be translating into brains. We spend billions on education, put soldiers in school uniforms, send them to the front lines without adequate training (or brains in some cases) and some come back in body bags. It never ends…maybe it is only a “Police Action” then?
Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind that America stinks. Explain!
America doesn’t stink, but when you shove a bunch of politicians into the White House, you think it will smell like roses? Let’s be honest: I still don’t trust the government to deliver a letter properly or on time. Why would I trust them with something important like education?
Make no mistake, I have my opinions and expectations of this experiment. For example, I think that I will uncover incompetence in teachers, parents and administrators. Rather than blow smoke up your skirt about how objective I’ll be (translation: lying), I’m putting all my prejudices on the table. That way you can filter the facts for yourself and make up your own mind (unless you went to public school, in which case just do what American Idol tells you).
