The Pop Out

As a fellow parent, let's take a moment to reflect on our role in our children's education: With all that you are doing for your children, ask yourself: "Who is this REALLY for?" It's time to set aside our own pride or desires, and help our children find out the best version of themselves, which probably is not what you think it is.

This is a new segment on this podcast in which I just rant about whatever annoys me or puts me in an unreasonable state of rage. Everything I say is meant to be taken as entertainment.... though I believe everything I say is true.

College rankings give the impression that one college is better than another. That whole endeavor is a lie. These rankings just feed into reputations that are not necessarily deserved, and it does not reflect what is the best fit for students given their particular interests and desires for their college experience. Unfortunately, reputation makes a difference in how people treat you. Still, we ca...

All this crying about fairness in college admissions. College admission was never fair. It was never a meritocracy, never about what you deserved. I'll try to break down why we need to start by getting rid of this idea that college admission is based on your merits, this idea that somehow you are owed a spot into a specific college because of your hard work. If you want college to be fair, then we...

Welcome to the Pop Out I'm popping out like Kendrick did to dismantle the colonizing fraud that is Drake, but for education. I have been teaching high school and college students for over two decades in both the public and private sector. If there's anything I learned, it's that people constantly act on bad information. So let's set the record straight and talk honestly about issues in the educati...