| An indie video game dubbed "No Pineapple Left Behind," currently under development, offers a satirical take on public school management. Its motto: "They take tests. You make money." --It's kind of like Sim City, but takes place in a school," he said. "The 'lose' condition is if the school goes bankrupt. The theoretical 'win' condition would be every student has an 'A' grade and the school has a balanced budget. But we're working to make a system where that's not possible." "We think that No Child Left Behind and the massive charterization of schools are systemic problems," he said in our interview. "A key power given to the players of NPLB is the ability to "manipulate teacher salaries and fire them on a whim," he said. The anti-charter bias is explicit: "Teachers [in the game] are all inexperienced and underpaid,"said the 25-year old former teacher named Seth Alter who.... |
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