VIDEO EVIDENCE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE PUTTING TAX DOLLARS TO GOOD USE… BY DOING THE “A TOOTY-TA” DANCE

When your public education system sucks and you’re pumping millions of taxpayer money into creating a 40-something-percent high school graduation rate that offers students the same skills taught to peasant children in Medieval Europe, there’s only one obvious solution: the A tooty-ta dance.

In the clip above, which was hilariously passed my way courtesy of The Voice for School Choice blog, a room full of “educators” go through the rigorous training necessary to successfully teach South Carolina’s youth mathematics. That preparation includes a four-foot-tall munchkin on Adderall leading a “dance” where teachers slowly swing their arms, shake their hips and speak in tongues. According to my research, this is the only “dance” ever invented by mankind that is more painfully embarrassing than the funky chicken.

Oh, and it also has absolutely nothing to do with math:

The next time you start to feel sorry for a public school district complaining that they need more money, watch this video.

Perhaps seeing self-respecting adults jive around and chant nonsense words in the name of “participatory education” will clear your head. If this is how South Carolina trains teachers, it should be no wonder that fifty percent of public school students drop out before graduating.

This embarrassing display of self indulgent educrat failure is part of Beaufort County School District’s push to introduce corporately developed “Everyday Mathematics” to students in the district. According to “Everyday Math” proponents, students can learn math through fun patterns, “active” learning, and a process called “spiraling,” in which students study a concept for a few days and then come back to it later.

To be fair, a source close to this story told me that following the A tooty-ta dance, the teachers were so inspired that they all took out calculators and tried to figure out the memory recall feature. Unfortunately, lunch arrived a few hours later before they could complete the lesson, but it was a pretty big step for our state.

However, according to the School Choice blog, the “everyday math” program is so bad that it was banned in California. Yes, BANNED. In Cali-freaking-fornia. I think that’s a sign, people.

Also a sign: the fact that there was only one guy in a room full of women. What’s up with that?

Seriously, it takes a lot of devotion to throw your entire masculinity on the floor like that and allow some Napoleon complex-driven bag of creepy peppiness trample all over it. Most men would either run or, if that didn’t work, begin throwing punches. I’m guessing he’s from California and has moved here to practice his deep love of taxpayer-funded A tooty-tas.