{"product_id":"passed-without-a-future-brett-a-thacker-9798274158794","title":"Passed Without a Future: The Public School Paradox","description":"\u003cb\u003ePart satire, part memoir, part educational exposé, and part blueprint for reform, this wickedly clever novel exposes the failures of modern public education while offering practical solutions to restore real learning. Join Brett Thacker, a teacher with a proven track record of dramatically improving student math proficiency and growth, on a heroic journey back to school to help save the future of our children and discover not only what's broken, but how it can be fixed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe year is 2026...it is the Future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica's last remaining teacher, Mr. Thacker, is on a mission to find others like him when he comes across you. Without any other options, he pleads with you to enter the machine and travel back to school as a student.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce inside, you are taken on a journey through a day in the life of a student in America's public schools, although things aren't like the way you remembered them...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of striving to make the students smarter, the schools are now in the business of making money off the children. Their new masters, Edtech(TM), have infiltrated the school and instead of being taught, $tudents are now plugged in to Programs that feed The District with the data it needs to keep its funding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach class you attend exposes more unbelievable truths about today's education system, that you, nor any other adult has any idea about; Teachers have been replaced by mindless program Facilitators, the evil District sabotages learning to serve their new masters, the Administration, in the name of research, enforces policies that masquerade as learning and discipline, but worst of all the light has gone out of the eyes of all of the $tudents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrab your schedule and travel back...back to school. Get the answers to the questions no one has been able to solve. Who is this Mr. Thacker and what is this machine he's sent you back in? What happened to all the teachers? Who controls our schools? Why can't our children learn? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan you make it through your day back at school? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill you save our students?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brett A. Thacker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798274158794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d","brand":"Brett A. Thacker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852769571071,"sku":"9798274158794","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/passed-without-a-future-brett-a-thacker-9798274158794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}