Good Morning

Yawn. Hey, I'm blogging again. I think I'm going to start an anonymous blog or maybe take a blogger alter-ego so I can rant about things in peace. But not today. The Education System is Down Yep, been in the trenches for nigh on ten years and public school is busted. Look, kids spend more years in school now than they ever have. They start in PK3. That's three years old. When I was three, well, I was probably setting up plastic animals on the living room hearth in an attempt to create three dimensional, biospheric murals. But I wasn't in school, that I can assure you. I was playing. In my house, with my jam jams on. Yeah, we're starting them earlier, but the test scores aren't improving. You know what? Our educational system is archaic. Corraling thirty kids, all at different levels of development, into a room and then throwing the same concepts at everyone and expecting everyone to achieve just doesn't make sense. Everyone learns at a different pace. Everyone has different aptitudes. You know what happens when your more advanced kids get done with the work that your general classroom population is still working on? Bored kids and wasted class time. On the flip side, if you move through the material at the pace of the more advanced kids your general population gets discouraged and lost. You could always give the advanced kids more work when they get finished so they'll have something to do. But we all know what that trains a kid to do...work slower. Why work your hardest when you are going to get rewarded with busy work until the rest of the class catches up with you? It's like in Office Space, work harder more TPS reports. Then you end up playing Tetris all day at your desk and you eventually burn down Initech.