https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/liberty-part-two-your-mark-get-set/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:23:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/liberty-part-two-your-mark-get-set/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:37:14 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/liberty-part-two-your-mark-get-set/#comment-113 Judging books and standardizing education
I have never really thought about liberty in terms of negative/positive. For kid number two we should have before and after school classes (not babysitting). We should really be teaching him how to level his own playing field. We should be exposing them to more so that they WANT more. The schools shouldn’t be the mother and the father and the Kale smoothie maker, but the divide will only get greater. The media will continue to spin their stories. I grew up in a house on the wrong side of the tracks. It wasn’t boarded up, but I for sure had no clue what Kale smoothies were. But Mrs Wolgamuth (5th grade teacher) and Mr. Potter (MS Science) and even mean ol’ Ms. Young (9th grade math) went above and beyond to teach manners and life skills and wanting more over content. This happened pre “Ed-Reform”. We still learned the content, but there was more.
This is why I wish we could govern ourselves. Become a profession rather than a position and make our own rules. Legislators are getting it wrong. Long removed administrators are getting it wrong. We can teach all the algebra we want and even get kids to pass tests, but if they cannot take care of themselves when they leave HS then what’s it all for? In my tiny town of Sapulpa OK we cannot keep a restaurant but there are 6 check cashing places with 2 miles of each other? We need to do better.
That is all. I feel a blog post, or a letter to the chamber coming on with that rant.

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