fer me two pence,
parents need to be parents, teachers to teach and the goverment and business to stay out of education. Education should not be dictated by funding sources or the pursuit of business practices. Even when I went to school and this was just before the whole s&*^ storm of no child left behind hit the books. we learned at our own rates and abilities, if you had issues then you got help to complete the tasks at hand. when i went to university and found out how ill perpsred I was it was a fast dance to learn what was expected. Point being as a student you learned how to deal with what was put in front of you no matter what.....instead of being "spoon fed" the information to pass an exam that has no vaule or bearing in the real world.
Of all the techniquies that have been implememted in education the most recent have been disasterous to teaching and learning both. college now is nothing more then a business to make money at the cost of acutul learning. As a preservice teacher, I am not looking foreward to dealing with the repurcussions of it. That said they have to be dealt with until it changes.....unfortunelty it is the students that are getting the brunt of the bad effects of being taught to the test.
When we stand up and fight for our educational rights for our childern and future generations then perhaps the problems in educaiton can start to be fixed and better choices made at ruling what is important.. intelligence or monetary gains.
Ye ship's potter and soon to be teacher,
Salty