Educational Process

Politicians WAKE UP... don't make me come up there!

Friday, March 4, 2011 at 12:06pm

In a brick corner of the school quad, the small boy's nose narrowly misses the Kindle he reads.  He is unaware of an impending attack. Approaching him from the rear, with malice, a twelve year old  sixth grader shouts, "God hates Fags.".

 Freedom of Speech -
(is it really okay to bash someone's very personal, adult-on-adult lifestyle?) Ridiculous!
Perhaps we need to strive even harder to teach our children to feel more secure in themselves so that as adults they don't have to go out and try to control others with hurtful, hateful verbage.  Anybody REMEMBER the Holocaust?  Damn!!

AND let us hang our heads in shame...

Behold, the crown jewel of Public Education negativism - NCLB.  It has becomethe poster child representing some commonly held views regarding Public Education...(Does everyone believe that all children deserve demoralized teachers and administrators?) Shame on the misinformed for focusing on what is wrong, instead of what is right!

Solutions?    Can a good education really be free?  Why NOT test at the beginning of every year before school even starts, to see where students are honing their own skills?  If we want students to be more interested in their own learning, how about running high media entertainment, full color, ad campaigns that sell math, techno writing, and scientific careers, right along with shoes and music?  Value comes from INFLUENCE.  Teachers can influence.  Parents can influence.  THE MEDIA can influence.  Forced legislation is false influence.  False legislation looks an awful lot like false engagement in the classroom.

 With the influence of test scores, what  can be determined about a student's future?  Why is everyone afraid to say: With these scores, you could go to a technical school, a fine arts school, an IT school...  Let parents inform the decision within the community.  What type of career are the scores pointing to?  There are plenty of jobs out there for a basic education. Why are we waiting for high school to help kids find their way to a career module?  We don't need to teach to a test... We need to teach to a child's strengths.  The test only shows the strengths.  SO WHY DO WE KEEP FOCUSING ON THE WEAKNESSES?  Good teachers know, we build on student strengths.  Those strengths determine a child's future.  Screw the weaknesses.

Students cannot work in a vacuum. Where are they headed?  They need the big picture even at eight years old.    The test should not determine solely the teachers' effectiveness, but the potential of the child and the effectiveness of the parent.  It is a sphere of influence, not a flat circle.  The implementation of NCLB is a flat, flat circle.    There are infinite possibilities being missed by uninformed, narrow-minded policies...

Come on Politicians! Be global thinkers, stop activism that involves punitive, directionless, micromanaged failure and worthlessness!  Help schools focus on what is really important:  What kids CAN do.