i-Ready Challenge Degradation
In the high-stakes world of i-Ready Challenges, educator dignity is often the first sacrifice. In today’s supercut video, we’re looking at the, um, unfortunate extremes to which local principals and teachers are pushed when districts mandate the ed-tech platform i-Ready by Curriculum Associates. That’s because when schools get judged, scored, and ranked on i-Ready’s meaningless black box metrics, budgetary and professional consequences skyrocket — prompting anxious admin and faculty to resort to outlandish, manipulative stunts to keep their students clocking maximum i-Ready screen time.
So prepare to writhe in empathetic cringe as you watch America’s fine educators subject themselves to demeaning i-Ready promotion campaign gimmicks: getting taped to walls, pelted with water balloons, pied in the face, and even smothered in tattoos. It’s two minutes of farcical epic tragedy — a chilling snapshot of late-stage American Empire collapse, featuring a haunting score of jeering kiddie sadists thrilling to the debasement of their formerly proud role models!
All this, to keep children jacked into cognition-shredding digital snake oil. Aye yi yi…
- John
EPOSTASY Housekeeping Notes:
Coming Next Week: The long-awaited Part 5 of i-Ready i-Reckoning: How i-Ready Extorts Teachers into Obedient Servitude.
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Previously:
i-Ready i-Reckoning: Unmasking Curriculum Associates' Ed-Tech Scam
The definitive critical exposé of Curriculum Associates — the shadowy firm that made e-learning platform i-Ready into mandatory misery for 14 million K-8 American students. Covering the i-Ready controversy: the teachers complaining it’s a boring waste of time that’s bad for …
About John Allen Wooden:
Howdy. I’m a tech-traitorous writer, satirist, creative director, and dad of an i-Ready victim based in Los Angeles. Having done hard time in big online media, late night TV, ad agencies, politics, and parenting, I created Epostasy as my little lab for gleefully dismembering all those self-important things. Check out my tech-skeptical kids book series, Screen Time Tales, along with other projects at johnallenwooden.com
