tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post1734046434819612417..comments2024-03-28T05:35:07.354-04:00Comments on Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: I hate school, but I love learning.Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post-56042318424884916482013-03-17T03:13:04.920-04:002013-03-17T03:13:04.920-04:00Strongly agree; why I have to learn something whil...Strongly agree; why I have to learn something while I'm not interested in it, at least for now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06805198537049904486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post-15561284333827388102013-03-10T13:13:42.655-04:002013-03-10T13:13:42.655-04:00Children learn to hate school from the first day t...Children learn to hate school from the first day they enter Kindergarten. Boys, boys of color and children with disabilities including ADHD and others, are punished, kept from recess, given detention, and "pushed out" more with suspension than white, non-disabled children. There is no freedom in school. Kids at some schools are not allowed to talk during lunch anymore. They have to walk in a straight line. My kindergartner got in trouble for skipping. Don't kindergartners skip? My other son lost recess for playing football, against the rules. Don't kids in juvenile detention play football? Our school system sucks. We teach kids to hate school and our Country's dropout rates prove it. Three teachers told my child within the last two weeks he would not have recess. One was for accepting a snack from another child at lunch. "We are no longer allowed to share food". Our school system is in crisis. Studies show children who receive suspensions end up in prison more than those who don't, question is were the suspensions justified? I honestly believe the rage our children have that causes school shootings comes from hating the institution we call school so much, which is why we did not see these shootings occur many years ago, even though bullying was quite prevalent even then. Jordan's Advocate.comJeanninshttp://www.jordansadvocate.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post-91027125312619886802013-01-07T15:33:42.085-05:002013-01-07T15:33:42.085-05:00Suli just posted that someone has put Chinese subt...Suli just posted that someone has put Chinese subtitles to his video. I emailed it to two people I'm FB friends with in China so they could share it with their friends, and gave Suli their email address and FB pages, too. The problems with schooling are worldwide. But the protests will reach everywhere and unite us :-)Priscilla Sansteadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09636912803473443881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post-9461017489236155042012-12-12T20:39:45.050-05:002012-12-12T20:39:45.050-05:00I agree!! Well as you can see from my video!! But ...I agree!! Well as you can see from my video!! But definitely change must come!! Big up Tele'jon!! Nice piece!!Suli Breaksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318734518772387227.post-45173305802215075592012-12-07T10:44:04.503-05:002012-12-07T10:44:04.503-05:00The same statement has been formed on the tip of m...The same statement has been formed on the tip of my brain for quite a while. Humans are born with a drive to learn. Without learning, the faster, stronger, more agressive creatures would have wiped us off the earth. Our existing school system was designed to provide a workforce for the industrial revolution, the goals of which were some limited math and language skills and compliance. Those jobs no longer exist. Why do we continue to operate in this manner?<br /><br />We need to completely repurpose our entire educational system. Children need to identify and learn to use the innate abilities that they have been endowed with. Children need to learn how to learn. Students need a guide to show the path to learning.<br /><br />It is no longer sufficient to shovel information into the student's head and have them dig around for it to regurgitate it on a test. The world we live in changes too rapidly for this approach to work. The material being presented is likely already obsolete.David Bleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14273679675469666739noreply@blogger.com