Minimum Competency

A Novel About Education, Testing, Life, and Death in Upstate New York

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Mystery & Suspense
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Author: Jim Mortensen ISBN: 9781440139482
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: April 24, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Jim Mortensen
ISBN: 9781440139482
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: April 24, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

In Snyders Corners, a small dot on the western rim of New Yorks Catskill Mountains, life is tough. Jobs are scarce, money is tight, and the best part of education is the state-ranked basketball team.

Jimmy Kalid, a ninth-grade English teacher at Kaaterskill Central School in the areas centralized district, realizes somethings amiss. Despite impressive test scores, his students can barely read. Then his new girlfriend, Phyllis Nielsen, while substituting for the eighth-grade English teacher, makes a discovery that causes everything to make sense.

When Joseph Scalani, the nephew of a mob bossand paper pusher in the State Department of Educationcomes to town with evidence of test tampering, hes hoping to shake down the perpetrators. Instead he meets a pair of incompetents: the bumbling Chief School Officer and his lackey. These two must scramble to cover their tracks, confounding a county sheriff, who rarely sees anything beyond petty theft.

As the mob, the schools leadership, and the sheriff collide, each player rises to his true level of incompetence. Their only hope to unravel the mystery is the towns singular pair of intelligent teachers Jimmy Kalid and Phyllis Nielsen.

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In Snyders Corners, a small dot on the western rim of New Yorks Catskill Mountains, life is tough. Jobs are scarce, money is tight, and the best part of education is the state-ranked basketball team.

Jimmy Kalid, a ninth-grade English teacher at Kaaterskill Central School in the areas centralized district, realizes somethings amiss. Despite impressive test scores, his students can barely read. Then his new girlfriend, Phyllis Nielsen, while substituting for the eighth-grade English teacher, makes a discovery that causes everything to make sense.

When Joseph Scalani, the nephew of a mob bossand paper pusher in the State Department of Educationcomes to town with evidence of test tampering, hes hoping to shake down the perpetrators. Instead he meets a pair of incompetents: the bumbling Chief School Officer and his lackey. These two must scramble to cover their tracks, confounding a county sheriff, who rarely sees anything beyond petty theft.

As the mob, the schools leadership, and the sheriff collide, each player rises to his true level of incompetence. Their only hope to unravel the mystery is the towns singular pair of intelligent teachers Jimmy Kalid and Phyllis Nielsen.

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