September 30, 2008
Watch Your Step…
Posted by wolfdreamer under A Day In the Life, Attitude, Education, School, Spiritual, Teaching1 Comment
I found this little cartoon online and wanted to share it with you. I think it speaks so true to the theme of my blog, taking “the road less travelled by.” This is what happens if you take the wrong path and pursue popularity:
There is a poster that hangs on a lot of teacher’s doors: “What’s popular isn’t always what’s right; what’s right isn’t always what’s popular.” The life lesson there is obvious, but I also shudder at the truth of such a statement when it comes to education. There are so many popular trends that administrators feel are important and detrimental for students, but usually they have a one-size-fits-all philosophy that is not only ineffective but also damaging to many students. I believe in increasing your expectations, because usually students will rise to them and not disappoint. However, everyone has different expectations that are not necessarily more or less challenging that others, just… different.
So, if I am expected to follow what is popular, I don’t have a problem with that, as long as the method works. I plan to “watch my step” as I travel, and if taking the right path means deviating from the popular one, then so be it.
Until later — “There’s no turning back now that you opened up to your mind.”
October 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Again: I tried to post this earlier, but my computer is crap.
Sounds like you’re not having too good a time this year? I read your earlier post and you said you were having a bad time with parents and such. Oh well, you’ll have that.
How’ve you been? I haven’t talked to you for awhile and I assume you’re busy with papers and family and such. Are you teaching night school again? I don’t keep up with things ever since I moved to this horrid school system. No offence to you… I think you said you went to Saint Albans, maybe it was Nitro. Whatever.
I have it here, nothing is good. The block schedule is an absolute load of (fill in this word your self) and whoever came up with it should be shot. It’s not just the awful schedule, no, far worse. None of the teachers can teach. The students are complete idiots(half the Junior class had no idea who Robert Frost was, and the Sophomore class can’t spell “Sophomore”). I have to get up at 5:30 in the morning, which is complete crap, considering school(if you can call it that) starts at 7:50.
That’s not the worst of it, there’s a teacher(Science) who consistently breaks my grammar laws. Every day(seriously, EVERY day) she writes: “How there used,” or “What your doing to help.”
Am I the ONLY one who notices these errors? I think I am. This place is horrible. All we do in every class is busy work, because I assume NONE of them know how to teach.
I’m about to go crazy and just drop out. I’ll get my GED and go on from there. I’m still not sure. We may move back, or at least my mother says so.
Hope for the best I will.