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Pussycat Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Angel of Mischief!
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Saint's are always good. But you know sometimes when you see a really long post...you think, I'll read it another time.....Not so with this. It's effectively addictive reading. Yup, is all I have to say! Sooooooo YUP! (totally agree), and looking forward to the testing ...... btw. if you fail more than 2 subject here in Spain in any year, you have to retake the year!
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Britt Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Learning Contentment
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American education is a constant swinging pendulum. Just when a teacher feels they have a handle on the latest standards, assessments and methods, POW! someone deems them all a failure and everything starts over from scratch. School districts spend millions of dollars to inact new programs only to find a sizable portion of their teachers refuse to adopt changes and revert to their old methods. In the end, teachers are blamed for the failures of the American education system and the pendulum swings to another side: Whole language or phonics? Bilingual education or ELL education? It's insane. It is frustrating to be a teacher in the United States. We enter the profession to serve children, plain and simple. We learn best teaching practices in our university programs and worked diligently to apply them, all in the name of producing an enlightened and educated populace. Every day, we live and breath teaching. It is like a second marriage, this profession: You take it home with you; you dream about it; you constantly think about it. "How can I improve?" "How can I help my more troubled students?" "How can I make every child in my classroom successful?" "How will this year be better than the last?" Something is fundamentally missing in this equation. The pendulum swings back and forth, the methods change as fast as the buzz words, and yet American students continue to lose ground. What is this missing puzzle piece? Why do the problems continue when the methods keep changing and are research-based? I believe the problem is at the very basic level of society, the family. Education is no longer the priority it once was. Our society has been overtaken by the idea of "the individual first", everyone else second. Over and over again, I see children being lost to the whims and desires of their parents. No one consciously thinks, "I want my son/daughter to experience the fullness of their potential and education is the key." No, it seems many people believe work and effort are no longer required. What do you think, Saint?
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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Polymath
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Britt wrote:
Outstanding writing, Britt. I can see you and I are going to have a lot to talk about. You couldn't have hit it on the head better. I asked my class the other day, (I run a school for alternative teens,) "How many of you sit down with your familes and eat dinner at a supper table." They looked at me as if I was speaking Martian. Today in our paper, the Vice Principal of our new high school was viciously attacked for stopping two gangsters from fighting. http://www.daily-times.com/news/ci_5319522Vice Principal Attacked The situation has deteriorated to the point where the old barriers of society are breaking down and the previously unthinkable is happening. This student freely admitted he was a gangster and that he had been arguing over 'rags" (bandannas used as colors for gangs.) His mother's reaction? Was she apologetic for her son's reprehensible behavior? Did she request leniency for him? Suggest treatment and rehabilitation? No. She became abusive to the police and the school staff. She denies that he is a gangster even though he, himself, admits. it. This is how out of touch some (not all) parents are today.
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Britt Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Learning Contentment
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Saint wrote: His mother's reaction? Was she apologetic for her son's reprehensible behavior? Did she request leniency for him? Suggest treatment and rehabilitation? I live about four hours from you and your family. There is a prevailing attitude in our region of "kids will be kids". Many parents reason that abusive behavior is normal and permissable for children and will not hold their children accountable for actions society does not tolerate in adults. These children grow up to be law-breaking adults and their families are surprised: "But I did everything for him," they reason. "Why is he like this?" Therein lies the problem: They did "everything" for their children, including looking the other way when they broke the law and giving in to their children's every want, never using the word "No". How can we be surprised when over-indulged children grow to be law-breaking adults? It amazes me when people are genuinely surprised. What a terrible story! The mother of this young man is doing him a great diservice by not holding him accountable. It seems she would rather he like her than respect her. "My mom, she's got my back," he might tell his friends, but when she asks him to clean his room, he likely calls her every profane word known to man. If she held him accountable for his actions, he would likely hate and despise her for many years, but when he grows into adulthood and has children of his own, I am willing to bet he will look to his poor long-suffering mom and say, "Thanks for being strong, Mom. You cared enough about me to make me pay the price for my actions. I love you." Last edited on 11:41 pm by Britt "All that you have is your soul." --Tracy Chapman |
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