Is it about the teachers or the students?
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Is it about the teachers or the students?
I vote students. When students are not listening, observing, etc, Teachers are not educating; just yaking about godknowswhat.
“… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.
Seems a lot about the teachers to me. Especially the higher ups in the school. Everything is so political in school.
I voted students but that's because I think education should be about students, not that I think it actually is really about students. Cynical I suppose.
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
A better question might be: "What is education supposed to do for students?"
If you're worth less than $5 million and you vote for McCain, you're a loser.
Education is a two way street. Students must be active with the educator as well as the educator being active with his/her charges. When parents are out of the loop the student tends to be non active in education.
You can drag a horse to water but you cannot make them drink.
A chance for a new beginning, like a dawn of reconciliation.
A divide and conquer mentality will only get you a devided and conquered country.
Education is about providing the opportunities to the students to learn, and hopefully stimulating their curiosity and critical thinking skills to make them life-long learners.
But as has been mentioned, students have an obligation to study hard, work at their lessons and TRY to succeed. It IS a two-way street.
That said, I do know some educators and administrators who are more into their own accomplishments rather than those of their students. IMHO those people should be dismissed from their positions. Sound like I'm not a fan of tenure? You're correct!
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face” - Thomas Sowell
“What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture” - Thomas Sowell
Most aren't but some of the school admin I know seem that way. I have all good teachers this year so yeah for me. Only 1 required class. I could just go to night school an get my diplomia but they only work that stuff out for bad kids who would just not get it if they didn't.
At my school, it really is about the 'student' sometimes to the detriment of other students.
The principal has taken kids the public school would not allow in 'average' classroom, we haven't the support staff for these placements. No favor is done to the student, much less the class or teacher by accepting these placements. I'd imagine that for the student involved, the period is traumatizing, yet we keep doing this.