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<title>"The truth is that schools really don't teach anything except how to obey orders." </title>
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<p><font size="5">Dear System Administrator,</font> </p>
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<p><font size="5">Your system security is lame. May I suggest
reading one of the many wonderful books dealing with NT
security. However, none of your files have been harmed, my
goal is not to destroy. </font></p>
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<p align="center">The following is quoted from the 1990 &quot;New
York's Teacher of the Year&quot; acceptance speech by John Taylor
Gatto. </p>
<p><font color="#000000">____</font>&quot;We live in a time of
great social crisis. Our children rank at the bottom of nineteen
industrial nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. The
world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of
this commodity. If we didn't buy so many powdered dreams, the
business would collapse-schools are an important outlet for this.
Our teenage suicide rate is the highest in the world-and suicidal
kids are rich kids for the most part, not the poor.&quot; </p>
<p><font color="#000000">____</font>&quot;Our school crisis is a
reflection of this greater social crisis. We seem to have lost
our identity. Children and old people are penned up and locked
away from the business of the world without precedent; nobody
talks to them anymore. Without children and old people mixing in
daily life, a community has no future and no past; only a
continuous present. In fact the name &quot;community&quot; hardly
applies to the way we interact with each other. We live in
networks, not communities and everyone I know is lonely because
of that. In some strange way, a school is a major actor in this
tragedy; just as it is a major actor in the widening gulf among
social classes&quot; </p>
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<p>After delivering the completed version of this speech Mr.
Gatto then resigned his position as an educator in the New
York State Public Education System. If you care about
anything discussed here, or want to read more, <a
href="http://laplaza.org/~totem/gatto.html">click here to
read the entire speech</a>. I feel that Mr. Gatto has an
important message that needs to be heard. </p>
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<p>The Tech Voodoo Crew (who is not affiliated with this hack)
brought this speech to my attention; I am simply carrying on the
message. Finally, greetings to all those who have inspired me,
and to all those whom I respect, you know who you are.</p>
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