Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ed Week May 18

"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.

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