The Government School System
by Tia Ja’nae
Teaching is boring nowadays, but they said in the academy that would happen. Uploading and downloading lesson inserts into their kinetic cores does little to inspire their attention on being granted adulthood status, nor their preparation as productive citizens that can contribute to the country’s inalienable economic needs. Most of my students don’t even bother to calibrate their chips to the right frequency, let alone log in for their lessons on time and be well prepared.
The Department of Human Behavior has been very harsh mandating us to enforce the legalities of any blatant refusal of participation, lest we lose our licenses. They are really nasty when it comes down to the software logs and filing databases, questioning every little thing as if we’re skirting regulation. There are so many inspectors now requesting mandatory court appointed hearings capitulating regulations throughout the term that it’s hard to keep up with the lesson plans.
I get why a lot of this is going on; there have been many scandals in the press that have painted teachers in a negative light and soured their importance within public opinion. Some teachers have been modifying code on the inserts and teaching unregulated information outside of the approved curriculum. Those that were caught were arrested and given lengthy prison sentences for their malfeasance in poisoning the minds of the future population.
Incidents like that are rare though. Most teachers get fragged for sheer laziness, using automated bots in the classroom for all of their definitive tasks. They drill into your head at the academy that there is no sympathy for automating grading, since lives are at stake. Can’t say that I blame the ones who do it; none of us thought we would be having such a high rate of failure with our students erring on the side of unproductive denizen cautions to play 20th century card puncher in our daily teaching duties.
Parents don’t care what happens as long as they don’t go to jail or get fined for their kid ignoring his civic responsibility. More times than not they get the crack of the whip, which throws me into a year of court battles off the clock while attempting to prove their parental rearing failure of following the social contract is racist, sexist, and gender discriminative to their kid from the inserts not being gene friendly to their genetic ethic predisposition.
Government doesn’t care what happens as long as the failure students get reassigned and serve their country via organ donation. Federal mandate dictates all students upon finishing secondary tier will be drafted into the workforce, but any behavioral disorders that could lead to anarchy are to be graded accordingly for draft reassignment; the minute any failing review goes by their names their frontal lobes are disabled as their kinetic cores auto destruct.
Principal Commandant Jameson seems to think I’m burnt out. Says it happens to the good ones that eliminate the most waste from their classrooms. Maybe that, or I’m tired of inhaling the regular scent of a cooked brain from an uninspired student on a regular basis. This noble profession of ours isn’t about anything but vetting, and that isn’t the wet dream the academy sold us on. We’re supposed to be making our country great again, not herding the mediocre to slaughter.
After five years I’m ready to ask central command for reeducation reassignment for a definitive task. Hell, I can’t even remember all of my student’s personnel numbers anymore. When they get down to being zeros and ones on a screen without a profile picture, it’s time to move on.