Jonathan Doze-All April 1, 2004
This is the forty-seventh impassioned book on educational inequality to be authored by the celebrated and prosperous (if slightly predictable) analyst Jonathan Doze-All. In this 690-page volume, Doze-All brings his patented approach - outrage salted with heart-rending tales of children and adults who mostly turn out to be fictional - to bear on an injustice so subtle and yet so obvious that most education critics had overlooked it, so to speak: unequal teacher height. Some children, we learn, have taller teachers than others. According to Doze-All, this disparity has powerful effects on pupils' self-esteem and the attitudes that parents hold toward their children's instructors. Shrimpy little teachers get less respect and their pupils are more apt to feel like second-class citizens. Moreover, Doze-All says, while taller teachers are apt to take a tolerant view of size-challenged pupils (and parents), short teachers (under 5'4") are likely to resent students who are taller than they, hence likelier to send them to special ed and to discipline them. Perhaps preparing for the lucrative lecture tour to follow publication, Doze-All recommends publicly-financed growth hormones and orthotics for short teachers and urges that school systems match pupils and teachers on the basis of height rather than such spurious considerations as subject-matter knowledge and instructional effectiveness. You can learn more about this valuable book by surfing to www.outragepublishersinc.greatestinjustice.com. - L'il Tucker