Education in these United States
I posted "The Conscience of a Hacker" by The Mentor, that was written on January 8, 1986 on my facebook "notes" section, and a good friend of mine commented:
"As an educator in a world in which there's less and less room for
individuality allowed us in our classes, I found myself nodding a lot.
One
of the new trends in education (including the St. Paul Schools with its
new Superintendent)? Handed-down curriculum in which every English
teacher of a certain grade level teaches the same thing on any given
day. Oh, it's the second Tuesday in October? Then today, all teachers
should be teaching "irony." Tomorrow, it's something else.
As if
all students *were* alike. As if my classroom, with its humans, were
the same as another teacher's classroom. As if I and other teachers
were alike.
I haven't taught the same course twice the same,
yet, because each year the kids in my room are different. I, as a
teacher, must follow *them* or I'm not doing my job. And now?
Administrators and "educational experts" are forcing teachers to become
robots and ignore the fact that those human beings in the desks aren't
*product*, they're individual human beings.
I've said the day an
administrator hands me a canned curriculum and expects me to read a
script is the day that I leave a job I adore--ADORE. I hope it never
happens.
But it's happened to St. Paul. To a suburb of Dallas.
To many in California. Go to your School Board meetings--even if you
don't have kids, even if you don't send your kids to public school--and
pay attention.
(Just my little response from one perspective.)"
Which made me step up onto my soapbox...
Unfortunately the public school system has been infiltrated by buffoons
in the upper echelons... passing down complete trash to teach to
students.
Deep down I bet these folks are the most well
intentioned peeps known to man, but somehow they bowed to political
pressure and the BULLSHIT Politically Correct Movement which is making
the United States an nation of complete pussies unwilling to stand up
for their beliefs because it may offend someone.
Offend me!
Stimulate my brain and lets engage in some rage... talk it out rather
than duke it out. Ever wonder why there is so much road-rage? Ever
wonder why kids kill kids in these day-time jails we call schools?
Ever just wonder WHY?!?
Censorship is another crock-n-bull story also. There are loads of things we should be teaching our kids... interesting things. Nicolai Tesla. Buffalo Soldiers. Skeletal remains that PRE-DATE our so-called indegenious peeps the Indians... and the cover-up around that involving the Army Corps of Engineers.
Students get in trouble all the time for expressing their views... even in college. What makes the prof/instructor/teacher so fucking arrogant that s/he cannot engage in dialogue with a student with an opposing view?