Freedom …bloggers.
A majority of the research I have done has to do with laws and acts passed by the government that generally worsen the public schooling system in America but on my way home from robotics I remembered I owed a post to my blog since it’s Monday and for some reason, I was thinking about inner-city schools. Not only that but the way in which students are influenced in those schools. School to them isn’t a safe place nor is it a place where they are motivated to do better but the schools are set up for them to fail. Much like in movies – Freedom Writers and Coach Carter specifically – the schools set the students up for failure. They have no source of strength inside their schools save for the few people who work at the buildings for the right reasons. If students aren’t encouraged in the one place that is supposed to set them up for success, where are they going to find strength? Life in urban areas – I do not know from personal experience – seeks to build strength in the wrong way. At this point in time, I’m not sure how to say what I mean but I will keep looking into it and post more thoroughly on this later.
I realize that certification requirements for teachers are different across the country but what message is this sending across? If you’re not CEO of some Fortune-500 company or inheritantly rich that your children have to get a subparr education? That’s certainly not right. Children don’t choose to be born into less than well off families so why should they be punished as such?
Changes need to be made. Hopefully this will be a start.
Constitutionally, where is education mentioned?
See Paolo Friere “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”: http://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769
This should take you to the National Education Association’s understanding of how NCLB is going to change in the near future; if it doesn’t work, let me know. http://www.nea.org/home/37987.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nea_today_express&utm_campaign=20100217Suspendedforprotectingstudents&utm_content=NCLB&utm_term=Suspendedforprotectingstudents
“Teaching Mrs. Tingle” – not quite what you were getting at, I don’t think, but it happens… well maybe the first half of the movie does.