Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Smartly Stupid

We somehow seem to expect our children in school to be smart and stupid at the same time. Smart enough to pass all the merit-based testing, yet stupid enough not to notice our dead-end economy.

What are our students learning? They are learning that for every problem, there is an ineffective solution. These ineffective solutions are based on the (ancient) idea that less money will solve everything.

How do you motivate students to learn? Give them a future. Our students are not stupid. They can look ahead and see what our economic injustice--all of our money flowing upwards and never coming back down--will do to them.

And yet the solution seems to be learning cursive writing? Seriously?

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