A retired teacher’s take on our failing education system from the inside. Honest and controversial, Education Aggravation examines the roles of the various actors and elements: students, teachers, parents, administration, politicians, money, media and technology.
What is happening in our schools? Do schools prepare students for “real” life? How? Who calls the shots?
Students advance from grade to grade without learning how to read or decode. How is that possible? Parents have trouble with 3rd grade math. Why is that? Technology is doing the critical thinking for our students. Snap! The importance of lifelong learning needs to be stressed in the households, the schools and on social media.
Instead of throwing blind money at a never-ending fix and just passing students from grade to grade, we need to re-examine our goals for them from the ground up. The student is supposed to be the focus. Only by looking at the cultural dynamics molding our students and using the tools at our disposal (one being our brains) to develop their ability to navigate, can we help them navigate their individual success in an unknown future.
Targeted Age Group:: 20-65
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Having worked in education on both coasts, it became apparent to me we are not teaching students the correct skills to help them forge a future. Teachers have the least say in a relationship that is primarily between them and the student. Rules have fallen by the wayside and the integrity of the administrators has fallen down the slippery slope of kowtowing to parents and politicians. Being a teacher has become increasingly frustrating and often absurd when everyone is throwing up roadblocks or making excuses. The myth that is often perpetuated that teachers don't care is a great falsehood. Teachers care to teach and help their students. They love "their kids." The lack of back-up and degradation from administration, and parents, and increasing, insane amounts of paperwork that no one reads, has really hurt the profession and the morale.
This book was bursting from me. Teachers that I work with always said, "we should write a book!" But when push came to shove, everyone is scared of the consequences or too tired to make the effort so they just suck it up and let someone else deal with it. You have to "go along to get along" as Thoreau once said, was gnawing at my soul as so many students are failed by the education process, so I wrote the book.
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