Student speaks out about Education's ills Please click on this link and watch. Then read below.
As a newer educator, I say good educators find ways around the ridiculous expectations and paperjams to actually teach our students. Still, we should not have to do so. It isn't Common Core that is at fault. If you would like to blame you can point to many things. No. To understand you have to go back and back - to those "founding fathers" we love to laud.
Why were schools, as we know them, formed? Because we weren't allowed to let them earn a wage anymore and what do you do with all those free, unorganized children? You keep them busy and add on more time in educational institutions who largely do not, or cannot meet the real needs of future adults.
This is a system that has made changes in the past. We are very overdue for a major shift right now. If you want to be mad about Common Core. Ok. Did that help? No? Then stand like this student, speak out eloquently and keep speaking up. We need to fight so we CAN teach and students CAN learn. No easy fix.
Rant over.
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