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Published on: 2005-05-17
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Original language: English

I began teaching 35 years ago, but this is not a book about how wonderful schools are. Nor is it a book complementing education about a job well done. KIDS never seem to rise to the level of expectations of the caretakers of our schools. Unless they're the students who completely comply and excel, it seems some little part of their make up, too often repulses the people who are supposed to have compassion and understanding for their weaknesses and psychological frailties. Education has a knack for suffocating creativity, establishing unrealistically high expectations, repressing exciting, expressive adolescent personalities, and perpetuating a system that is dull and disconnected from the potentials of technology. Instead of paving the way for student success, it creates unnecessary and complicated roadblocks that constantly keep students and parents off balance and confused. Teachers and administrators led by the "Theory Heads" in state and federal government positions have established success in college as the gold standard. Everyone is judged as a person according to whether they meet that narrow standard of success. There within the problem lies. The system has created a curriculum (process) and standards that are destroying lives needlessly. I have been just a soldier (through five different decades 1969-2005), a grunt on the front lines trying to execute all of the ever changing knee-jerk commands. They are farcical to watch, difficult to follow, and impossible to obey. The common thread that runs deep throughout this system is the fact that most of the people making the rules are well-educated, were great students, wouldn't recognize a disability or a "child at risk" if they slapped them in the face and yet they are the people who pave the runways by which we all fly. They equate high GPA's with effective teaching and effective learners. They want to perpetuate the system in their own likeness and they have. Students in the top 25% of their class will always One Town's War on Gay Teens - Rolling Stone One Town's War on Gay Teens. In Michele Bachmann's home district evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides the kids are ... Why are homeschooled kids so annoying? But I digress. Why is this perception of the weirdo homeschooler so pervasive? Why is it that despite the clear academic achievement of most homeschooled students ... Dollar Stretcher Library Subject Index A to C How to Find Your Family History On a Budget by Erin Konrad - It's amazing what you can learn without spending money! 6 spending triggers to disarm - Are your friends ... Why Do We Send Our Children to School? - Dont they have ... Why do we send our kids to school? Well we parents all know the truth: as soon as the school bus pulls away we ditch the business suits for bathing suits and head ... Why is there so much school bureaucracy and what can we do ... Posted November 6 2008 9:55am Ken Royal: Thank you for this opportunity to comment. As an educator I looked at the bureaucracy as another hurdle to ... Nutrition Fitness Medical Wellness - MSN Health & Fitness MSN Health and Fitness has fitness nutrition and medical information for men and women that will help you get active eat right and improve your overall wellbeing About.com Trending in Money Are You Making the Most of Your Health Savings Account? 10 Steps for Finding Your New Job; 7 Lifestyle Changes to Make You a Better Entrepreneur Pregnancy Baby Child Information Parenting Community ... Wondering how to prepare for pregnancy to choose a baby name or to get your toddler to sleep? EverydayFamily is the place to be with resources from preconception ... Open Letter: Why Your Child Can't Bring Peanut Butter to ... Open Letter: Why Your Child Cant Bring Peanut Butter to School (and... Homework makes kids hate learning - The Chief Happiness ... Time Magazine has an article on why homework is a bad thing for school kids. They cite Alfie Kohn whose work is a constant inspiration to me both when it relates to ...
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