"Teacher Protest" Great picture" Arresting teachers for exercising their rights guaranteed in the Constitution. It's bad enough that they're underpaid, have difficult working conditions, and no job security--let's abuse them some more. I'll bet those police could be out arresting "real criminals" instead of harassing teachers. A sorry commentary on life in the "best country in the world". Maybe we need to teach students that this country needs some serious improvements and a shift in priorities, instead of preaching how superior this country is to the rest of the world.
"Beyond Schools" I love this quote "If you were a healthy, self-actualizing young person, in which environment would you choose to spend most of your time?" First of all how many "self-actualizing" kids or adults do any of us know not many--any? But I'll bet we know lots if kids and adults who would rather spend their time unsupervised on a computer exploring what ever we'd like than in a classroom having to learn what's being taught. Finally, the best outcome for the future, according to this article would be for schools to "cease to play a determining role in what constitutes knowledge and learning". Yeah, I'm sure that will a great day! Then we will truly have a generation educated exclusively be the media.
