I have sat in classrooms for the last four and a half decades at least. From being a student listening to the teacher, to a teacher with students listening to me or at least attempting to. The steady march of curriculum and standards sent to an educational war that we seem to be losing year by year but keep on mindlessly pressing on.
The question that hangs over it all and drives this endless insanity is what should students be able to do and learn to move on to the next grade? What should students learn to be career and college ready? How can we boost performance on a standardized test?
The question is never: What do you want to learn? What are you curious about? What gets you excited? Can you accomplish these things you love and want to do?
Public school is a failure in that is does not let people choose what they want to learn. We make assumptions that we must do things the way we have always done them in order for…what? Sit in a class? listen to a teacher drone on about nouns and verbs and how we have to pass a test? Read out of a book about how a cell works without going out into the world and collecting specimens to look at first hand? Embracing the child’s love of music as a career choice and a vocation and not a waste of time?
What exactly are we trying to accomplish?
We need to break free of the boredom that is the traditional school system whether it is a public school down the street or a charter school pretending to be a better choice but doing the same thing. This blog is an about and adventure to escape the mundane and push for enlightenment.
Wanderings and wonderings 