And what is so odd about all this is that leaders keep saying we are (and we
need to be) building a knowledge society. Pretty difficult to see how this
will come about if we don't value and honour learning and teaching.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 1, 2001 10:56 AM
To: Magic Circ Op Rep Ens; Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what's ailing kids
Crooked Face Harrell:
> In our community we have children refusing to go to school. Not because
of
> violence by recording but by the violence of professionals who bad mouth
the
> educational system in an unending vitriol that if loosed in the Stock
Market
> would destroy it. We expect our kids to filter the BS from the
> constructive criticism while they have more homework, more difficult
> assignments, more pressure from above then we ever had. The problem is
> not them but us. Why should they learn advanced physics if they are
> taught by the society that it is impractical and that their teachers are
> idiots? Why should they practice long term discipline in the arts when
> their parents are so unable to do the same in their lives?
We have a bad scene in public education in Ontario right now. School boards
are being amalgamated and consolidated, schools are not being adequately
funded, and the government is doing a lot of teacher bashing. Teaching
seems to have moved from being an honourable profession to doing something
if you are absolutely forced to. Young teachers are quitting because they
can't stand the insults and the pressure. I'm sure the situation will work
itself out eventually, but right now it borders on chaos.
Bad Ass Ed
