tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post2255983567386968984..comments2024-02-27T14:06:14.373-08:00Comments on Looking Forward and Back: We're Still Not Quite Getting It Rightmsprimadonna67http://www.blogger.com/profile/04987221270784648882noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post-25711081801282304602011-10-14T14:58:01.718-07:002011-10-14T14:58:01.718-07:00New fan from blog hop! Please stop by and say hi! ...New fan from blog hop! Please stop by and say hi! http://www.giveawayswithkati.blogspot.come<br /><br />Kati JunesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post-36805323748127196052011-10-13T11:49:21.218-07:002011-10-13T11:49:21.218-07:00Donna, I don't think it's the individuals....Donna, I don't think it's the individuals. I think it's the system that's broken. And it's a shame that the system is discouraging to so many teachers -- and I respect you for keeping your hope and courage while swimming against the tide.<br /><br />In their book, Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin and Heidi Toffler explain how the current educational system is geared toward scientists getting jobs as scientists -- and, having entered the information age, the education system fails. In my words, the system is a machine that was designed in the Industrial Revolution for people work as cogs in a machine, and then it was tuned up for the Space Age, to develop scientists and engineers. Here, in the information age, we are still trying to use the old machine to crank out relevant workers in the information age. Try driving your car to the moon lately? How about on the Information Superhighway?<br /><br />There is more good info about the failing education system here:<br />http://www.edutopia.org/node/3149<br /><br />I don't care for conspiracy theories, so I'm not even going to go down the path of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, but when there is such systemic acknowledgement that education is failing, and nobody can do anything about it, there is definitely something wrong with the socio-economic system that lets us keep paying taxes for that non-working system! Would it be too cynical to believe that big business is profiting from our machine-that-leads-us-nowhere (e.g., NCLB)?<br /><br />Even with the prestigious education I was given, I also felt alienated and refused to apply to the ivy-league colleges that my peers eventually graduated from. Many years later, my kids are being "home-schooled" because I still don't think learning is as efficient in school as it can be out of it.<br /><br />--chabAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post-49512469039536568122011-10-13T08:19:52.076-07:002011-10-13T08:19:52.076-07:00Movie sent me here, she knows I have not been abou...Movie sent me here, she knows I have not been about the blogs (mostly because I switched schools last year- lots more work- plus took a second job to make up the teacher pay cut).<br /><br />This is thoughtful and earnest. I also have friends outside of education that try and tell me about MY colleagues. You are right, most people would never go into teaching unless they liked kids and thought they could make a difference. It is just a lot more difficult than we expected given the parameters of the policy makers.Pseudohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10430783970802030846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post-72933941807183728812011-10-13T04:15:31.985-07:002011-10-13T04:15:31.985-07:00I love this post.
I'm not sure I have anythin...I love this post.<br /><br />I'm not sure I have anything useful to add, but I love how honest you are. It gives me hope.Kimhttp://www.mypieceofmind.info/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-923275034966633229.post-48033240794911727162011-10-13T02:58:08.296-07:002011-10-13T02:58:08.296-07:00This is awesome. You echo my feelings on teaching....This is awesome. You echo my feelings on teaching. One of my relatives asked me years ago why I wanted to teach younger kids. My undergrad degree is in English, and it would have been easier to get my teaching certificate for high school English. I told him that I preferred to teach the whole child over subject matter. Knowing that about myself led me to special education.<br />The administrators in our district are pushing a new mission statement that says we should be preparing every child for college. It doesn't feel like the right message for my students. The statement alienates so many... <br />Such a frustrating system. And the problem is so much larger than school - our culture is wonky. <br />Great post. Thanks so much!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com