Standardized People

Standardized People

Standardized People

Standardized People

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Overview

Have you ever taken a Multiple Choice test and find that every possible answer is wrong?High School teacher, Alex Trotter, seriously suspects that there is something wrong with multiple-choice tests, and not just in how they are created or graded. They seem to be shaping the way people think, making life a matter of choices instead of free thought, where the best possible scenario is to choose the least worst answer. From the SAT test to the menu at a coffee shop, people are trading thought for choice every day.When Alex is given documents found in the National Archives that suggest that there has been a centuries-long conspiracy to subdue free thought into choices, this public school teacher gets caught in a whirlwind of discovery, danger and even murder that all leads up to a most crucial courtroom trial over our right to freedom FROM choice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781492115298
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 08/08/2013
Pages: 428
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

John Vermes graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and has a Master's degree in Education. He emigrated from Hungary with his family at the age of thirteen. Both of his patents were Holocaust survivors. Teaching is his third career. He brings to it considerable experience from his field and from the business world, and he has an unsurpassed passion for teaching, learning and making a change in the world through creative and critical education and free thought.

Presently, he teaches Advanced Placement Physics and Engineering courses at American Heritage School in Plantation, FL. He lives in Coral Springs with his wife and best friend, Helen. As a family of teachers, his son, Andrew, teaches at Lynn University and his daughter, Jenne, teaches at Florida School Of The Arts.

Jenne Vermes is an impassioned teacher, a perpetual student and a professional dancer. She currently teaches dance at Florida School of the Arts at St. Johns River State College, and she teaches music and personal finance at Duval Virtual Instruction Academy, a K-12 online public school in Jacksonville. She also teaches various forms of dance at three private studio schools in Northeast Florida as well as several master classes and workshops around Florida and the East Coast. She also choreographs for and performs with her own professional tap ensemble, Noise Complaint.

Jenne is also a seasoned writer. She is a current staff writer for the Dance Magazine of Florida, and while completing her graduate degrees, she served as a senior staff writer and earned the position of web editor for the FSView and Florida Flambeau in Tallahassee, FL. An alumnus of Florida State University thrice over, she has earned a B.A. in Music and two Master's Degrees in Education. Currently she resides in Jacksonville, FL with her husband, David, and their three cats, Ninja, Sayuri and Tsunehiko.
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