Subject:  Survivor III
 
Have you heard about the latest planned "Survivor" show? Three
businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped on an island 
for 6 weeks with a copy of a school district's curriculum and 
28 kids each. 

Each class has 5 learning-disabled children, 3 with ADHD, 1 gifted
child, and 2 who speak limited English. There are also 3 students 
who are severe behavior problems. There is no access to vendors 
who want to take them to lunch at the downtown Hilton, and there's 
not enough time to go there, anyway. 

Each business person must complete weekly lesson plans according 
to state standards, modify for each student according to IEP, 
teach the kids, handle misconduct, correct homework, compute grades, 
export grades, then input grades one at a time on Mrs. Smith's 
computer because grades didn't export, have conferences with all 
parents, attend faculty meetings, implement character education, 
coach or sponsor at least one activity outside of school, maintain 
an endless supply of pencils and Kleenex, and provide a stimulating
environment at all times. 

The business people will not have clerical or secretarial service 
to help with any of this. They only have access to the golf course 
and their cell phones on the weekends when all teaching tasks are 
done. There is only one golf course, and they can't afford it on 
their new salary, anyway. 
 
The business people must continually advance their education on 
their own time, which they must pay for themselves either by
moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with a lot of 
money. They must attend workshops, drill the classes for fires and
shooting attacks, tutor those who are behind, keep records on all, 
not let it show when they're having a bad day, incorporate reading, 
writing and arithmetic with science, social studies, drug education,
art, music, phys. ed., health, and sex ed. every day and get their 
2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the 
Stanford Achievement Test, version 9. 
 
The kids and parents vote them off the island based on their 
teaching performance. 
 
The winner gets to go back to his/her corporate job!