My Daughter (God bless her!) has homeschooled our grandson from 1st
Grade to 7th so far - she was planning to go into teaching when in college
until she was given the opportunity to assist a teacher locally - she saw
the Hell teachers must endure and changed course..... Which is a shame
because often the best and brightest will see the problems teachers have and
decide it's not worth it...
As I mentioned elsewhere - requiring administrators to teach *in* a
classroom at least 2 years out of every 5 employment years and they'd see
the problems they cause with their "new teaching" paradigms ...
LarryT
91 300D
-----Original Message-----
From: Mountain Man
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:11 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton
DanP wrote:
I'm not sure I have a problem with state control of textbooks, but there
should be some sort of governing body that defines curriculum, or people
are going to be all over the place in terms of what is being taught.
Someone has to set the standards.
Centralizing control and standards are good to a point.
Central control and standards essentially deny and eliminate concepts
of ingenuity or invention. I don't think you want that to happen.
While you have a fine system humming along in your system today, you
have few, if any, mechanisms to allow innovation or invention to make
the system hum along even better. We easily lose sight of objectives.
Education. Education requires vested interests which we have lost.
The parent interested in education does that education themselves -
with the benefit of innovative methods and inventiveness in getting
the material across to their kids in whom they need to cultivate a
vested interest in education. When we shove these tasks off to
others, we lose control, interest, innovation, objectives. There is a
lot to be said for homeschools. We homeschooled k12 7 kids all of
whom are adults today, in varying sucess in the market.
mao
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