Posted: Dec 25, 2013 6:31 pm
The big problem I've seen with educational practices, has been that the basic goal of it all hasn't been logical for a very long time, if it ever was.
That is, I think that the official purpose of publicly funded education should be to see that everyone becomes educated. Regardless of what schools have been called, and no matter the many fad approaches to teaching have been promoted over the years I've been here, the goal of education has instead been, to sort children according to whether a given teacher is able to push information into them at that instructors set pace, while making sure not to spend more money than was allocated by politicians, all of whom are rewarded based on shifting blame and lowering taxes.
The Bush "No Child Left Behind" concept was ideally titled, but as is so often true, the title was just a disguise for an even LESS intelligent way to see to education. Specifically, the policy was primarily designed to tie teacher salaries to test scores. Never to make sure students actually learned anything. No surprise from a Party that thinks all teachers are traitors, because most of them vote for the other party.
The people who claim that it makes sense to segregate children according to learning abilities (without bothering to figure out WHY one child learns more readily than another), are not looking at the overall health and progress of the entire society they live in, only at how good a job the society does at isolating and channeling money into the pockets of the few, the prideful, the already well off.
That is, I think that the official purpose of publicly funded education should be to see that everyone becomes educated. Regardless of what schools have been called, and no matter the many fad approaches to teaching have been promoted over the years I've been here, the goal of education has instead been, to sort children according to whether a given teacher is able to push information into them at that instructors set pace, while making sure not to spend more money than was allocated by politicians, all of whom are rewarded based on shifting blame and lowering taxes.
The Bush "No Child Left Behind" concept was ideally titled, but as is so often true, the title was just a disguise for an even LESS intelligent way to see to education. Specifically, the policy was primarily designed to tie teacher salaries to test scores. Never to make sure students actually learned anything. No surprise from a Party that thinks all teachers are traitors, because most of them vote for the other party.
The people who claim that it makes sense to segregate children according to learning abilities (without bothering to figure out WHY one child learns more readily than another), are not looking at the overall health and progress of the entire society they live in, only at how good a job the society does at isolating and channeling money into the pockets of the few, the prideful, the already well off.