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(age: 21 years, 11 months, 7 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes)
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Tuesday November 2, 1999
2/XI/99 - on the soapbox
| Continuing with my public schooling rage: I've just thumbed through the newest Time Magazine here at the office. Only to come across a horrifying article on what is becoming of kindergarten classes and their standards being enforced upon such precious imaginations. That is one of the most crucial points in one�s life. When nothing should tell you how you can and can't think, how you can and can�t hold your pencil, write your A's, or anything so simple. In my opinion, if the job is getting down, the point is coming across... no matter what path was taken to that point. It's all good. Who�s to say that you have to learn to read with standardized, approved, reading material. When a child is interested, they will learn. Whether that learning occur is a classroom, or in the cereal aisle of the grocery store! Life alone can teach us much more then being still in a tight little desk all day while the teacher rambles on in front of you. Most kids have no idea what the teacher might be saying, since they are presently playing fighting dragons, or organizing pajamas parties in their head. I firmly believe that such extreme enforced education only institutes rebellious, interruptive kids. |
A teacher�s hardest job is recognizing and adapting to the various levels represented by their classes. To merely "follow the curriculum" could lead to losing the slower learners as you move on anyway, and/or boring the accelerated ones as you lag behind on stuff they've had clear for months now. Balance is difficult to obtain, and such stiff margins on who should be where and why (based on location, age, and class size), makes it hard for any flexibility of service. Do we require our doctors to see each and every patient in the same time frame, no matter what their need is, simply based on uniformity??? I don�t think so!
I hate to sound so bitter, but it is extremely frustrating and disappointing to me. I may not be in school anymore myself, or have any children attending, but I do understand it�s importance and the effect it has on our society. I don�t believe in manufacturing robots, rather then taking the time to actually teach children.
 
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 scribbled by manky @ 18:09:00 
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this has been a school days, soapbox rant entry
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