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Forward by Betsy DeVos

Former US Secretary of Education and Amway Heiress

Hi there, fellow educators! Betsy DeVos here, unqualified billionaire puppet master of education policy for four terribly misguided years. I'm just delighted to provide this forward for Teach Like a Chump - a book that every teacher in America's failing school system desperately needs!  

As someone who has never set foot in a real public school classroom, I have some truly innovative thoughts on how you all can better perform your duties. First off, we need to start treating education like the free market paradise that it should be. Implement more computery stuff, whatever Elon Musk is selling - that tracksuit-wearing visionary knows a thing or two about cultivating Great Minds™. Why learn math and reading when kids could be mining crypto or trading Beanie Babies? 

Secondly, ditch those utterly useless labor unions that provide medieval concepts like "living wages" and "bathroom breaks." Real educators should be salaried in Monopoly money and have a healthy fear of being randomly fired should test scores dip below 14th percentile. We're trying to produce an underclass of skilled servants here, not intellectual rambos!

Oh, and please ignore those sycophantic calls to study things like science, critical thinking skills, or world history and cultures. Why reeducate when you can just indocrinate? Kids' minds are so flexible before age 8, we may as well pipe feed them some Proverbs and "Who's the Fairest" whiteboard riddles. I'd like to see them grow into wise sages of mediocrity instead of insufferable book snobs who might accidentally become freethinkers!

Lastly, and most importantly, all subjects besides entrepreneurial studies, firearms safety, and regulatory capture 101 should be permanently relocated to church basements and unlicensed daycares for "education enrichment." I've been assured those pipe-fitters and doggy deli clerks moonlighting as tutor know just as much about pedagogy as you so-called "professionals." Heck, maybe we can have the Ruby Ridge guys teach a spirited unit on conflict resolution while we're at it!

So in closing, I hope this farcical literary take on the realities of America's inexplicably underfunded public education system forces you to smile wryly through the pain, despair, and underlining sense of being cheated. Now get back to teaching our youth about the completely real scourge of Sharia maritime law before I dismantle Title IV and outsource all curriculum to Kookier Kawkawat's Cut-Rate ChristianHomeschool Bunker!

Sincerely wishing you all a lifetime of squalor and despair from the comfort of my 92-room Dutch Colonial,

Betsy DeVos

Welcome to the Fry-er: A Totally Unhelpful Guide for First-Year Elementary Teachers

Congratulations and condolences! You've entered the elusive, magical world of molding young minds. Forget all the Frozen-inspired, rainbow-puking optimism you absorbed in teachers' college. This boot camp is the real deal - small humans, small bladders, small patience. It's Lord of the Flies meets the Stanford Prison Experiment, except the authority figures are in Velcro sneakers and the prisoners bang521 out nap times with the enthusiasm of hardened chain gangs.

In this definitive anti-guide, you'll unlearn all the gumdrop platitudes about "building communities of learners" and "a love of lifelong learning." Instead, we'll impart the cold, hard truths about being an underpaid, disrespected multitasking machine for the first 30 years of your career. It's not teaching - it's a endurance sport with a vague whiff of economic hostage situation.

So grab some buckles for your kindergarten tarp shoes and maybe a bottle of cooking sherry for the Really Tough Days™. You're in for a beautifully ugly, uncompensated hot mess!

Totally Unhelpful Table of Contents:

Part 1: Losing Your Marbles

- Chapter 1 - They Lied: There's No Such Thing as Classroom Management

- Chapter 2 - When Parents Attack: Dealing With Overzealous Believers in the Gifted Myth

- Chapter 3 - Stress Sweat: The Battle of Perpetually Damp Pits

- Chapter 4 - Sorry I Reserved That Straight Jacket for Myself: Maintaining a Neglected Persona

Part 2: Becoming a Jill/Joe of All Trades

- Chapter 5 - The Nurse Is Out: Bodily Fluid Removal on a Budget

- Chapter 6 - Crying Over Spilled Milk: An Allergen Cautionary Tale

- Chapter 7 - Pinterest Ain't Got Nothing on You: Crafting Anxiety

- Chapter 8 - If You Think Herding Cats Is Hard...

Part 3: Ascent to Burnout

- Chapter 9 - Data, Data, Everywhere: But None That Show Your Impact

- Chapter 10 - Faculty Meeting Pity Party: Zoning Out Like a Zen Master

- Chapter 11 - Yes, It's Yet Another $87 Added Duty With No Pay

- Chapter 12 - Sacrifice Your Summers to Seek Nominal Fruit From PD Serfdom

Part 4: Cultivating Jadedness

- Chapter 13 - Bathroom Humor: The Endless Existential Void of Cafeteria Duty

- Chapter 14 - The "Get a Real Job" Game: An Annual Family Function Tradition

- Chapter 15 - Just Venting: How to Complain Passive-Aggressively for Six More Decades

- Chapter 16 - Retirement: The Long, Scream-Filled Road to Poverty Independency

So clock in, newbie! Here's your official hazing into the noblest-suffering profession on earth. We assure you, it'll feel more like your myopic life force is being flushed down a perpetually clogged Pre-K toilet. But hey, at least there's ample material for Bingo Night at the underfunded geriatric facility! Now let's make like a very ill-compensated superhero and save some academically deprived youths from their woefully disadvantaged circumstances. Yippee!

Here is an expanded, sarcastic introduction for a parody elementary teacher self-help book aimed at first-year teachers, including a table of contents:

Welcome to the Fry-er: A Totally Unhelpful Guide for First-Year Elementary Teachers

Congratulations and condolences! You've entered the elusive, magical world of molding young minds. Forget all the Frozen-inspired, rainbow-puking optimism you absorbed in teachers' college. This boot camp is the real deal - small humans, small bladders, small patience. It's Lord of the Flies meets the Stanford Prison Experiment, except the authority figures are in Velcro sneakers and the prisoners bang521 out nap times with the enthusiasm of hardened chain gangs.  

In this definitive anti-guide, you'll unlearn all the gumdrop platitudes about "building communities of learners" and "a love of lifelong learning." Instead, we'll impart the cold, hard truths about being an underpaid, disrespected multitasking machine for the first 30 years of your career. It's not teaching - it's a endurance sport with a vague whiff of economic hostage situation.  

So grab some buckles for your kindergarten tarp shoes and maybe a bottle of cooking sherry for the Really Tough Days™. You're in for a beautifully ugly, uncompensated hot mess!

Totally Unhelpful Table of Contents:

Part 1: Losing Your Marbles

- Chapter 1 - They Lied: There's No Such Thing as Classroom Management 

- Chapter 2 - When Parents Attack: Dealing With Overzealous Believers in the Gifted Myth  

- Chapter 3 - Stress Sweat: The Battle of Perpetually Damp Pits

- Chapter 4 - Sorry I Reserved That Straight Jacket for Myself: Maintaining a Neglected Persona

Part 2: Becoming a Jill/Joe of All Trades

- Chapter 5 - The Nurse Is Out: Bodily Fluid Removal on a Budget  

- Chapter 6 - Crying Over Spilled Milk: An Allergen Cautionary Tale

- Chapter 7 - Pinterest Ain't Got Nothing on You: Crafting Anxiety 

- Chapter 8 - If You Think Herding Cats Is Hard...

Part 3: Ascent to Burnout

- Chapter 9 - Data, Data, Everywhere: But None That Show Your Impact

- Chapter 10 - Faculty Meeting Pity Party: Zoning Out Like a Zen Master

- Chapter 11 - Yes, It's Yet Another $87 Added Duty With No Pay 

- Chapter 12 - Sacrifice Your Summers to Seek Nominal Fruit From PD Serfdom

Part 4: Cultivating Jadedness 

- Chapter 13 - Bathroom Humor: The Endless Existential Void of Cafeteria Duty

- Chapter 14 - The "Get a Real Job" Game: An Annual Family Function Tradition

- Chapter 15 - Just Venting: How to Complain Passive-Aggressively for Three More Decades

- Chapter 16 - Retirement: The Long, Scream-Filled Road to Poverty Independency 

So clock in, newbie! Here's your official hazing into the noblest-suffering profession on earth. We assure you, it'll feel more like your myopic life force is being flushed down a perpetually clogged Pre-K toilet. But hey, at least there's ample material for Bingo Night at the underfunded geriatric facility! Now let's make like a very ill-compensated superhero and save some academically deprived youths from their woefully disadvantaged circumstances. Yippee!