>Very nice, Tom!  Fits my sympathies exactly!
>
>But since it's a forward, wouldn't it be polite to indicate whatever one
>knows of the original source?  Remember what's happened to a couple of
>writers lately over imperfect attribution?  (;-))
>                Carter Pate

agreed. not only polite but moral, too.  but the problem is, how do you attribute a forwarded msg that has no attribution?
my wife forwarded it to me sans attribution. knowing that she didn't write it, and that it would be incorrect for me to associate her name alone with it (besides wanting to protect her anonymity), i figured if folks really wanted an attribution, it could be found on their time.

but here, for the exercise i'll try:  searched google :  http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bsurvivor+%2Bclassroom+%2Bbusinessmen

top hits:
http://www.wilk4.com/humor/humorm225.htm  -  hmmmm, no attribution.
http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/leaders-net/2001/12/msg00008.html - no attribution.
http://teachers.net/mentors/upper_elementary/topic6330/12.20.01.16.11.28.html - found a "Posted by Mr. Griff on 12/20/01 "   one easily noticeable difference: Griff writes "three with A.D.D., "  whereas the text below changed? it to "3 with ADHD".
checking the thread for more, i find:

Re: with your OK Mr Griff
       Posted by Mr Griff on 12/31/01

       It's cool with me. Someone e-mailed it to me and it was not
       sourced or cited. When I get back to school I will e-mail
       the "reasons Why this show will not work" response I made up.
       Happy new year

obviously Mr Griff is not the author.  so, back to google ...

... i've now passed the first 50 listings, none with attributions.
this was fun while it lasted. am not interested in looking any further.

someday somebody will attribute it to actor Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus, Education of Max Bickford) or to '7 of 9' now on "Boston Public" or to a Harvard MBA doing community service in schools in exchange for bad behavior on Wall Street, then the Urban Legend folks will pick it up, trace it down to the real author and debunk the myth, and -then- we'll be able to find out who -really- wrote it.  maybe.

<sigh> somebody should have taught that first plagiarizer to cite.

;>



>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, tom kunesh wrote:
>
>> Survivor: the Classroom
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show?
>>
>> Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary
>> classroom for 6 weeks.  Each business person will be provided
>> with a copy of their school district's curriculum, and a class of 28
>> students.
>>
>> Each class will have 5 learning-disabled children, 3 with ADHD, 1 gifted
>> child and 2 who speak limited English.  Three will be labeled as severe
>> behavior problems.
>>
>> Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in
>> advance with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or
>> create materials accordingly.  They will be required to teach the students,
>> handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write
>> referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete
>> report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange
>> parent conferences.
>>
>> They must also supervise recess and detention and monitor the hallways
>> and restrooms.  In addition they will complete drills for fires, tornadoes,
>> shooting attacks and assist with fundraisers.
>>
>> They must attend workshops, weekly faculty meetings, school improvement
>> sessions, and curriculum development meetings.  They must also tutor
>> those students who are behind and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking
>> children proficient enough to take the SOL and SAT-9 tests.  It they are
>> sick or having a bad day they must not let it show.
>>
>> Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and
>> social studies into the program.  They must maintain discipline and provide
>> an educationally stimulating environment at all times.
>>
>> The business people will only have access to the golf course on the
>> weekends after all teaching and preparation tasks are completed (but on
>> their new salary they will not be able to afford it anyway).
>>
>> There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch,
>> and the lunch hour will be limited to 30 minutes.  On days when they do not
>> have recess duty, the business people will be permitted to use the staff
>> restroom during the 15 minutes that another survival candidate is
>> supervising their students. They will also be provided with two 40-minute
>> planning periods per week while their students are having music or art class
>> in the classroom and one 40-minute planning period while their students are
>> having physical education in the gym.
>>
>> If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials at
>> that time.  The business people must continually advance their education
>> on their own time, preferably during the summer months, and pay for this
>> advanced training themselves.  This can be accomplished either by
>> moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with a lot of money.
>>
>> The winner will be allowed to return to his or her corporate job.
>>