I believe Ford School started Sat. school this week. It's all about MCAS prep.. We have a test driven educational system. Too bad. People, our children are more than just an expression of numbers. The pressure to perform stifles creativity and innovation.
The really sad thing is that those are the components most needed and most missing in our educational system. Intellectual development takes patience. No one grows flowers using a stopwatch. Like I say to my daughter when she starts giving me a rapid fire litany of reasons supporting one of her arguments, "Breathe! All beautiful music has periods of silence, you know rests".
By trying to cram in too much information, you lose focus.
Look at any other successful country academically. Kids are under a lot more pressure to study in places such as China, India. The US is falling very far behind academically.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, it seems like the more we try to compare ourselves to them the farther behind them we fall behind. We have become a math oriented system which is a narrow view of education. We need more reading and writing.
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