People, not pupils! This is what I like about the school I teach in...we treat them like people, not pupils. Even the middle school kids look more like people than...well, whatever.
Schools spend a tremendous amount of time separating the "smart" kids from the "dumb" kids. This group goes over here, that group goes over there. This group qulaifies for this, that group doesn't because of the "numbers". This leads me to statistics. For all the abstract qualities we find in statistics, doesn't it seem odd that we call it hard evidence? Yet, in the tentacles of public education (and in many privates programs) if scores say the kids' learning is "up", assumptions are made that the kids really are learning. But are they really?
Sometimes I think the word "learning" should be replaced with "performance capability", except now it sounds like I'm talking about a sports car. We need to re-think how we educate/train kids for the future. Kids need to be treated as complex, dynamic, potential-filled, creative-thinking leaders, not as somebody who's below the mean on some sterile assessment that no one will give a hoot and a holler about in two days. What do you think?
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