John Corcoran graduated from college and taught high school for 17 years without being able to read, write or spell.
Corcoran claims that he cheated all the way through grade school, high school, and even college. He graduated from Texas Western College in 1961 with a degree in education while still totally illiterate.
For 17 years Corcoran taught high school for the Oceanside School District. Relying on teacher’s assistants for help and oral lesson plans, he said he did a great job at teaching his students.
“What I did was I created an oral and visual environment. There wasn’t the written word in there. I always had two or three teacher’s assistants in each class to do board work or read the bulletin,” said Corcoran.
This story speaks volumes about our education system in this country. Yet the teacher’s unions actually have the nerve to be outraged about Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” program.
A society is only as good as the people it produces. If teacher’s are going to pass students even when they don’t know anything, then they should be held accountable for that.
-Chris Jones
