A California public high school received a grant of $10 million from Laurene Powell Jobs to redesign itself. Guess what? They have gone whole hog for “personalized learning.” Known on this Blog as Depersonalized Learning. This is where the computer mines your data all day long and you develop a close relationship with the computer.
Meanwhile the giants of Silicon Valley send their own children to a Waldorf school in Los Gatos that prohibits screens in school and discourages them at home. Wonder what they do at the school attended by Mrs. Jobs’ kiddoes.
“We are literally building the plane as we are flying it,” Principal Anthony Barela said”
They used to say that very thing when they introduced the Common Core. Remember that? Always a bad idea to build the plane in mid-air, especially when children are on board.
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“I love my (perrsonalized) teacher”
I simply love my teacher
I love the way she thinks
I love her every feature
And love the way she blinks
I love how she remembers
The things I said and did
From long ago December’s
When I was just a kid
I love my teacher’s clicking
And beeping when I err
Her keyboard must be sticking
But I don’t really care!
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There is a morally compelling argument that the techies who insist on screen-based depersonalized education for the children of other people’s children is unethical, even if it is legal. Arguably it is also unethical for the administrator of the school to be accept this buy-out. Where is professional judgment? Who is in charge of the curriculum? What will the students be learning (or not) and has this been decided by the Billionaire?
What happens to the data? Have the parents a clue about the escape clauses in every software program marketed to schools? Are they aware that Trump has made it possible for the ISP provider to scoop up and market the data produced at the school? I am really pleased to see that Diane had adopted Depersonalized Learning (with caps) as the name for education freed from teachers and other human beings.
KnowledgeWorgs.org, a major purveyor of computercentric online learning, seems to have adopted a policy of never mentioning teachers. The leaders at KnowledgeWorks.org talk about learning in an “ecosystem” without schools, teachers, and formal curricula. De-schooling education and outsourcing it to skilled marketers of products and services is the aim.
Unless they have informed all of the parents and obtasined tgeir permission, it seems to me that this is a clear breach of prohibition on research on human subjects (in this case children) without informed consent.
YES. May lawsuits ensue.
WORTH REPEATING (and repeating): “There is a morally compelling argument that the techies who insist on screen-based depersonalized education for the children of other people’s children is unethical, even if it is legal.”
They are literally building the plane? How exciting! Wait, what plane? I didn’t know we needed a plane. Are we going to Fantasy Island? (“Boss, the plane! The plane!”) They must be literally flying to Fantasy Island on their broken airplane. I would be jealous, but I don’t board an airplane unless it has been manufactured first. Well, I am certain that principal has at least one part of the plane working, autopilot. He’s definitely on autopilot. Literally. What a genius.
“We are literally building the plane while flying it” — Principal Anthony Barela
Hs brain, it’s plain, is really quite insane
And taking the literal nonsense out of the sentence, we have someone here BRAGGING about building a plane mid-flight. He must really be trying to impress the Ed Reform master class.
Amen to: “His brain, it’s plain, is really quite insane.”
By George, Yvonne, I think you’ve got it!
In case anyone didnt, that’s from My Fair Lady “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plane”
“Building the plane while flying it”
Building in the air
Is really quite exciting
Really rather rare
And really quite inviting
Building on the wing
At 30 thousand feet
Is really quite a thing
And really can’t be beat
To see it come together
Before it hits the ground
Could blow me down with feather!
It really does astound.
How do you do this so well each time? This poetry boggles my mind.
Simple.
My mind is boggled.
That’s how I do it.
Love it.
I wonder if any reporter might dare to ask Ms. Jobs what her commitment to the school will be if the experiment fails. What will she do if the teachers, parents, and students do not think it’s working and want to return to the way it was?. Will she be long gone by then? Will she foot the bill to fix it? Will she halt other schools that are participating in the program? Will she pay to restore those schools as well? Or will she act like Bill Gates with his “Small Schools” experiment and turn her back on the narrative she launched that will continue to harm schools and children for years to come? Will she take ownership of the failure and apologize to those affected?
Do reporters care?
The same is true for the school district that is inviting the techies in to use the young people as guinea pigs. What is their responsibility if the plane crashes and burns.? Will their be any survivors? Will they get into the college of their choice? Do the parents understand about the data mining and potential of having their child’s information sold to the highest bidder?
Correction: there
Is she going to buy new hardware every eighteen months for the “school”?
I love reading about Waldorf schools. They are idyllic. Diane, please continue to post any references to Waldorf you find.
The schools for connoisseurs
“Waldorf Historia”
Waldorf historia
Harkens me back
Early euphoria
Idyll, in fact
Here is a link to an organization promoting public Warldorf schools: http://www.allianceforpublicwaldorfeducation.org/ . You can find member schools of the organization there, including many in California.
Thank you. That was very thoughtful of you, economist. I was unable to find any public Waldorf schools in my home state of California, though. There were only charters. Good for them for eschewing screen time, but charters are not public schools. I would try to make a public, district school go Waldorf if Eli Broad and now Reed Hastings hadn’t gone to such lengths to buy my school board, thus preventing any real reforms.
Left Coast,
I don’t believe all the schools are charter schools as you use the term. You might look at Mariposa School for Global Education, Agoura Hills, CA for example. I appears to be run by the district. I only looked at a few, so there may be others.
The Tomorrow River Community Charter School in Wisconsin might be another example. Like many, if not most, of the 237 charter schools in Wisconsin, the staff of the Tomorrow River Community Charter School are all employees of the local school district and responsible to the locally elected school board.
I doubt you will be able to find a Waldorf school operating like the traditional catchment public school because it would be too politically difficult to force all the parents in a catchment area to attend a school that is far from their mainstream experience.
TE,
Back again!
There are some charter schools that are run by districts. The trend however is towards corporate charter chains and for-profits. Michigan and Florida are overrun by terrible charters that are corporate, not run by teachers or the local community. They suck away resources, fold, and reopen under a new name. They are parasites
I did a semester of my student teaching at a charter school before the corporate takeover. The parents and the teachers ran the school together democratically, everything from curriculum to budget. It was a district school with the duties of the principal greatly diminished. It was a very good school. If that’s how those Waldorf charters work, I love it. If, however, they have charter management organizations or private boards running them, I would rather they were under transparent, democratic leadership to avoid all the devastating effects monetization of children and adolescents brings. Education is too valuable to society and the economy to make it, instead of a right, a competition.
Dr. Ravitch,
The trend in Wisconsin and Kansas seems to be going in the opposite direction. Are some states more important than others?
In any case, Left Coast Teacher was asking about Waldorf schools. Perhaps you could find a list of traditional neighborhood public schools that are Waldorf schools. You would make LCT happy.
My public school district does not have any Waldorf schools. If they had, I might have moved into the catchment area. There is now a private Waldorf school, so that kind of education is available to families able to pay approximately $8,400 annual tuition.
There are about 90,000 public schools. I wish I knew what each of them is doing. I don’t. Waldorf Schools are not subject to state mandates and federal laws.
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Last year, Ms. Jobs, through her Emerson Collective, tried to throw the same? $10M at Oakland via the reformy XQ Project. Read more about that here: https://xqsuperschool.org/
For those of us who have supported public schools for years, it was a slap in the face considering that the school (Summit Elevate) would be located right up the street from arguably the best public high school in Oakland.
My answer to this fantastic shiny! new gift via Antwan Wilson and his political friends was this rant. While Ms. Jobs doesn’t necessarily control the curriculum (virtual labs were probably someone else’s idea), you get the picture…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/14/100-million-jobs-widow-aims-remake-schools-high-tech-age/90353636/
http://xqsuperschool.org/abouttheproject
‘Dear Ms. Jobs:
I read with great interest your newest philanthropic project: to bring a brand new super(!) school to the city of Oakland, I am writing you to please consider rethinking that $10 million bet (that’s what it’s called in the USA Today article) and consider the following:
While the idea of “virtual chemistry labs” sounds utterly fantastic to your software programming team, the fact is that children require actual hands-on lab training in order to properly study science. While I understand that the procurement of Pyrex glassware, microscopes, lab benches, hoods, and other equipment isn’t quite as sexy as, say computers and software, it’s really what’s needed in Oakland schools (and elsewhere). What you are telling us is that even though you have the means to distribute all kinds of school equipment and supplies (have you even heard of Pyrex), none of this makes you or your Silicon Valley friends and relations any money. So instead of providing students what they need and deserve, you provide them with your idea of the kind of chemistry labs that are good enough for you, and your friends and relations. There is also the added plus of another glowing screen for our kids to stare at during the day.
I am curious as to whether you plan to branch out into, say, the medical field, where doctors-to-be are trained on computers instead of actual people. How ridiculous does that sound? About as ridiculous as a virtual chemistry lab. By the way, computers can’t smell, and it’s important to realize that you can die if certain smells are present in a real working chemistry lab. Somehow, you are going to have to incorporate that sniffing feature into your software.
So from the website, here is your idea of a Super School in Oakland. The other schools on your site sounded a lot cooler, but this is what Oakland gets:
“Summit Elevate will bring world-class education to Oakland and innovate further, taking student achievement to new levels. At Summit Elevate, students will benefit from learning that integrates fine arts, architecture, and arts and sciences. Partnering with California College of the Arts and Oakland Unified School District, students will truly be “in the driver’s seat” of their own educations, whether selecting their own network of personal advisors and mentors from education and industry, or using Basecamp’s digital platform to ensure college- and career-readiness.”
Well, you kind of missed the boat on that one. Oakland already has high schools that integrate most, if not all those subjects (Oakland Tech and Skyline). Other high schools have struggled for years to provide a similar curriculum, but programs were cut. We old-fashioned types call this newfangled idea of yours an enriched curriculum, the kind I grew up with and which disappeared during the Prop. 13 days. There’s nothing new about it; sorry you didn’t get the memo. ‘
After all the hoopla and fanfare, a miracle. The project went away…along with Antwan Wilson and his political connections. The powers that be decided that it wasn’t the right political climate to go forward with it. And it’s all about the kids, right?
Thank you! Great letter. These people hooked on technology are also hooked on phonics…surface stuff.
Hooked on pharmaceuticals is more likely.
@Oakland Mom: Sorry to enlighten you, but, medical and nursing students have been using simulations for decades. And recently they have added more technology to their studies as well as their hands on trianing: you might want to check this link out for more information: https://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2011/05/31/medical-simulation-beyond-training-dummies/ … as well as the fact that robotic surgery is more and more common, and guess what, that is easily simulated!
Sorry to burst your bubble about technology and modern day medicine! 😦
http://nursing.illinois.gov/PDF/2012-06_Simulation_Publication_FlaILOhioND.pdf …
Simulation is designed to imitate the clinical environment and provides the opportunity for the student to demonstrate knowledge and skills learned within their education program as well as the opportunity to practice decision making and critical thinking (Li, 2007; Decker et al., 2008). Several studies have demonstrated that simulation training al- lows the training agenda to be determined by the needs of the students and not the patients; that it is a safe learning environment to practice rare and critical events (Decker et al, 2008); and that it provides objec- tive feedback to students (Good, 2003; Kneebone, 2003). Several studies have found simulation to be an effective way to increase clinical competence, to build confidence in skills in a supportive environment and providing repetitive practice which can help speed acquisition of skills (Steadman et al., 2006; Gordon et al., 2001; Maran & Glavin, 2003), enhance technical, behavioral and social skills (Small et al., 1999) and provide reflective learning through debriefing feedback (Gaba, 2000) interviewing and physical examination skills.
Several state nursing workforce centers have examined the use of simulation within their states in partnership with multiple organiza- tions. The story of four subscribers to the Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers (Illinois, Florida, North Dakota and Ohio) pro- vides information about the extent of implementation of simulation equipment, challenges and future plans.
and
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol142009/No2May09/Simulation-Techniques.html
M,
There is a significant difference between the education of adults and children. Adults who enroll voluntarily in a program have higher motivation than children to learn from machines.
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol142009/No2May09/Simulation-Techniques.html …
The use of simulation in educating health professionals enables learners to practice necessary skills in an environment that allows for errors and professional growth without risking patient safety. The appropriate use of simulation in a professional education program allows students to hone their clinical skills without danger of harming the patient during the learning process (Ziv, Wolpe, Small, & Glick, 2003). Although proponents of simulation assert that the use of simulation in health professions education promotes patient safety, others argue that to date there is insufficient research to link simulation to increased patient safety. Despite what some feel is a lack of firm evidence relating simulation to patient safety, there is evidence that simulation training has enhanced learner satisfaction and safety in other high-risk fields, such as the field of aviation (Gaba, 2004; Institute of Medicine, 2003; Ziv et al., 2003).
From an educational perspective, the amount of knowledge required today to practice safe patient care demands the adoption of a pedagogy that goes beyond traditional didactic teaching. Traditional education relies heavily on linguistic intelligence and rote memorization. In contrast, a well-designed simulation curriculum draws upon multiple intelligences and is learner-centered.
@Oakland Mom: Please don’t forget about the all the simulations that NASA as well as the AIrforce and the Aviation industry relies heavily on in order or the astronauts and pilots to hone their skills! 🙂
Dr Ravitch,
Not always… students are students… some will be more motivated than others.
Plus… Those struggling in college are most likely struggling still because they didn’t have anyone mentoring them to hone those foundational skills ingrained in P/K-12 for those students that can learn it any way it is handed to them; too many students try to attend college and continue to struggle, and it is a characteritic that is especially common for those relinquished to spend their time under the umbrella/safety net of Special Education for their academic careers in primary & secondary schools!
I have been told by college professors that the online courses have high dropout rates.
There is in fact no research base showing the superiority of online instruction at any level, K-12 or in higher education or professional education.
Dr Ravitch,
Are you referring to MOOC courses, yes, those do because they are voluntary and those are usually people just looking at learning something about the topic, and not interested in getting credit for it.
Those that are taking online classes and matriculated in degree programs, are not dropping out of their online courses any more than they do from their more traditional in person courses.
I know that this is not true at the colleges that my son hast taken college classes at.
If anything, online classes bring in more students to the colleges and they allow for more in depth independent and group discussion! instead of being lectured at, they actually have to write and discuss the material with each other!
It actually improves a student’s writing and comprehension about the material imho.
If anything, it is more an issue about the professors not wanting to teach online courses.
I know that is the battle being fought more and more from talking to college personnel and reading the minutes of the college faculty and admin meetings on various campuses!
But the future is in more individualized and independent learning options. And as scary as that is for those of you that don’t want to face the reality of such an idea, it is not going away.
Thanks for the info. My issue is not the use of simulation or modeling for job training for adults-I am well aware that many fields use it for both training and normal work applications: aerospace, medical, manufacturing, engineering, biotech, etc. The Right Stuff is my favorite film. Great movie, lots of simulation. But edtech is slowly but surely creating a paradigm by which students will no longer have the option of real hands-on learning with, for lack of a better term, real stuff. And, these techies are only doing it because they love experimenting on our kids with their shiny toys and putting more dollars in their pockets. And I guarantee you if my future neurosurgeon told me that I shouldn’t worry because he/she did really well with the simulation, I would tear off my gown and run screaming into the night…
“Simulated Death”
On surgeon simulation
I really did quite well
Cadavers in the Nation
Have quite a tale to tell
Thanks for fighting for the rights of young people to be educated by actual humans. Too many are getting seduced by the cash.
Disgusting, sad, harmful. No clue about what humans need, what’s important- what elevates, motivates, inspires, moves the heart and soul. Certainly NOT technology.
“We are literally building the plane as we are flying it[.]”
Like this?…
Glad we in Virginia averted Laurene Powell Jobs, her beau Adrian Fenty, & Arne Duncan meddling in our public school system via their $25K Emerson Collective campaign donation to Tom Perriello. Good riddance!!
“We are literally building the plane as we are flying it,”
Ahh, someone please tell that idiot that there probably has never been a plane in history that stayed airborne if it was being built while attempting to fly it at the same time.
Again…Not one serious post about the article nor the fact that nobody cares about all of the students currently slipping through the cracks in the public schools that they all attend currently, and nobody is doing anything about the public schools, while y’all disparage anything that is not a public school…. and rarely speak up about what y’all are doing to change what is not working in your schools and your own classrooms…. because I’m sure there has to be on average 1 in 5 students struggling, especially if you have any number of Title 1 students in your school and classrooms…
M, do you want to suggest a successful charter school or voucher school that accepts all kinds of students?
No because I really do not care if a school is public or private or charter or Waldorf or whatever… What I care about is can the child read and write and do math with grade and age level proficiency!
And if not, what is going to be done for them to ensure that they will be able to sooner rather than later?!!!
Your naivete and ignorance is incredible. There are many other factors to a child becoming literate and loving to read than just attending K through 12 schools: public, private, corporate charter, voucher, or otherwise, and the evidence is overwhelming that many of the corporate charters are dumping the children that need the help the most and doing nothing to change the environment those children live in.
The most important years for a child to become literate and an avid reader and/or lifelong learner are the years leading up to kindergarten. A child that comes from an environment bereft of books, magazines and newspapers almost always starts out behind and never catches up. In fact, many of these children quickly learn to hate books and reading especially in a high-stakes test environment where everyone is ranked and punished without regard to what that child’s life is like outside the school’s walls.
That is why Finland postponed the start of school to age 7 and why most parents in Finland introduce their children to books at home at a much younger age so, and by the time most if not all of those children start school, they are already reading and love it. But in Finland, with a poverty rate below 5 percent, this parental environment is to be expected since most middle class and educated parents in the U.S. do the same thing with their children.
I blame all parents and/or guardians for a child that does not learn to love to read before entering kindergarten because it is the parent’s responsibility to do that. The parent is the most powerful role model in a child’s life and the adult the child will see the most as that child goes through k-12 and has 35 to 50 different teachers often having a new crop of teachers every school year.
And I curse the lying, frauds that are behind the corporate for-profit reform of America’s public education system because they created an environment in America where parents have justified placing their lack of parenting on teachers that have no control over the life of children outside of their classrooms.
Most American children consume too much sugar and don’t get enough sleep. Too many American children watch too much TV and don’t read. That is the parent’s fault for shifting that responsibility to teachers who can’t do anything to change a child’s bad lifestyle outside of school and at home.
Lloyd, Your refusal to admit that too many children are dropping out, ending up in jail, or getting passed through year after year and still cannot read or write or do math with age and grade level proficiency after attending school that has been madated for 13 or more years, is a form of malpractice that nobody is willing to be held accountable for!
A child’s demographics is going to be there and that is the putty you have to work with, so why is this so hard for the majority of you all to comprehend?
Education is supposed to be approriate and more than de minimus! But in too many cases, it is nothing other than de minimus!
For many students, school is their one place of safety (until their self esteem is trampled so badly because they are falling so far behind their peers and nobody cares enough to help them… special ed might throw them a ring to grab onto, but it never actually teaches them how to swim, and they are forever feeling like they are drowning!!!!)
So keep throwing out more smoke instead of working to resolve their learning struggles.
I can tell you that they are not getting too much sugar in schools if they are title 1 students, their school meals should be nutritionally balanced.
Also, the lack of parenting skills that you espouse, might actually be cyclical, because the gnerations before them were also failed and the cycle repeats over and over until they can break free of it, which is why it is so urgent to help them!!!!
Just saying… that is how it is viewed from outside the public school bubble!!!
Sorry for keeping it real for those in the bubble!
What is the reason they drop out, and what do you define as too many?
The high school graduation rate in the United States for adults 25 and over is almost 90-percent, but on-time graduation rates are about 80 percent for 17/18-year-olds.
What does that reveal – that for whatever reason, about 10 percent of adult high school graduates could not graduate on time but they went on (on their own after the mandatory laws did not apply to them) to take night classes or community college classes or a test to earn an equivalent high school degree before they reached 25.
In the district where I taught for 30 years (1975-2005), there were three high schools and one of those high schools was labeled an alternative high school. It could have also been called a charter school because the teachers were in charge and that high school took the students from the other two high schools that wanted to graduate from high school but for whatever reason, they couldn’t do it on time in the two regular high schools. The teachers at that alternative high school set up flexible schedules to work around the adolescent’s life so if they worked days to contribute to their family living in poverty, they could attend classes when they were free outside of regular school hours. That alternative high school also got rid of the rule that after four years in high school and reaching 18, you had to go and kept students into their twenties who voluntarily wanted to keep attending at their much slower pace and eventually graduate with a high school degree. Last time I checked, that alternative high school was still there. I just hope that NCLB and all the other crap didn’t destroy that flexible, supportive high school environment for students that couldn’t make it in the regular, mandatory high schools.
Do you think the percentage of adult Americans that do not have a high school degree after the age of 25 is too much and what do you propose we do to fix that”
A. rank and fire public school teachers based on the results of high-stakes tests students take.
B. Close public schools and send all poor children to corporate charter boot camp schools that kick out the same children that can’t graduate on time because for whatever reason they don’t fit in that autocratic, secretive, private sector education environment that bases success on test scores and little else.
From the 2015 Census:
Educational Attainment of the Population Aged 25 and Older by Age, Sex, Race and
Hispanic Origin, and Other Selected Characteristic
88.4 percent have earned a high school degree (187,524,688)
58.9 percent have some college or more (124,945,748)
42.3 percent have earned an Associate (college) degree or more (89,731,836)
32 percent have earned a Bachelor’s degree or more (67,882,240)
12 percent have earned an advanced degree (25,455,840)
These numbers are based on 212,132,000 adult Americans aged 25 and older.
The United States has been consistently ranked in the top 5 countries in the world as one on the most educated countries list because of these numbers. In fact, there are so many college graduates, that the U.S. has almost 3 grads for every job that requires a college degree.
Click to access p20-578.pdf
The only way to improve those numbers is to focus on reducing poverty and that should start with a high quality national early childhood education system kept in the traditional public schools so the quality of instruction and curriculum can be monitored by all stakeholders through transparency.
Lloyd, Where is the education data gathered from the census information relating to those in prison and those that are homeless? Just curious….
M, that was a lousy attempt to ignore all my points (with links) and change the subject. If you don’t know how to use Google, find out. I’m sure the information is there if you look hard enough and avoid the hate mongering, racist, lying, conspiracy theory industry of the Alt-Right fake media machine that was designed and manipulate easy to fool people who only want to drink at the fountain of ignorance.
Lloyd, I’d love for the census bureau to start collecting data on how many of them were students in Special Ed and Title 1 students and where they are now and where they are economically. I think such data would be very useful information to have, and then we can see just how well those students are doing as adults as that is the type of information that is needed in order to show what plight those students are in after being released into the world of reality outside of the P/K-12 educational public school bubble….
M,
Children do not live inside a k-12 public school bubbl from birth to age 18. In fact, they spend most of their lives outside of the schools. For their first five-or-six years, they live in their family environment and are not in school. Those young years are crucial years. That environment determines if they start school equal to all students or start out behind. Even then the school day for the average student is five to six hours not counting lunch time and breaks when they are not in class.
Then the children leave the school and return to the environment they grew up in. That leaves about 18 hours a day in that other environment. Most children have one or two parents for their entire childhood and they spend most of their time with those one or two significant adults, the primary role models in their young life, versus several teachers a day spending about one hour with each teacher before they move on to the next teacher.
STOP ignoring all the facts and links I provide and STOP attempting to change the subject to your corporate line of false reasoning. The facts are overwhelming that your type of thinking is totally wrong.
There was a recent film that was produced to be misleading propaganda about the public schools and this film supported school choice but it also made a mistake and revealed why the child wasn’t learning. In one scene, the child gets home after her five or six hours at school and instead of reading or doing homework, her mother lets her watch TV until bed time.
The film was called “Won’t Back Down” about a mother played by Maggie Gyllenhaal who clearly wasn’t doing her job as a parent who then blamed teachers for the fact that her daughter was falling behind. Not once did I see the mother sitting down to read with her daughter. Not once did I see the mother control the TV so it was off and the child was reading.
Studied have revealed that if children do not read outside of school, they will fall behind. Literacy leading to lifelong learning requires children to read for pleasure outside of school at least a half hour a day but most don’t because of parents that can’t say no to the TV, video games, texting, etc.
That is why teachers are only considered responsible for about 1 to 14 percent of a child education and the parents/guardians 60 percent.
The greatest teacher in the world can’t teach a child who refuses to do what it takes to learn and behind most of those children is a parent/guardian that supports that child who refuses to do what it takes to learn. It is so easy for failing parents to place all the blame on a teacher or teachers just like that parent in the failed propoganda film “Won’t Back Down”.
Lloyd, I can also provide you with a long list of families that have tried to work together with their schools and have the data to back up their claims and they have refused to work with them to get their child the appropriate help. If you’d like me to send you the list, let me know! Many will be members of Decodong Dyslexia, but there will be others that also struggle with their school for other issues aside from “learning disabilities” and they were read to early and often, they are not getting high on sugar, they are well nourished and well care for and come from middle class or higher families!!! Just let me know where to send the list to! 🙂 You can send them your survey and see how they all do on it regarding their parenting ability and how it impacted their children’s current learning struggles! I’m sure you will be surprised at how many of them pass the survey and yet their children are still struggling because they have not been provided the appropriate instruction in an effective manner! 😦
To all greedy corporate/ capital-philanthropists:
Please DO NOT twist the meaning of language, such as the phrase: “on behalf of…or in the name of…” and enforce certain rules on people’s children, BUT NOT YOUR OWN CHILDREN.
Life is very simple that we DO NOT TRUST and BELIEVE in:
1) Any research that is funded by industry who promotes its products which harm consumers. (= fake research to lure people into their trap for their own profits gain)
2) Any shortcut CAN bring us a solid success (=short term gain will lead to long term pain)
3) All greedy and talent-less leaders truly care for people’s welfare (due to their ignorant and egoistic frame of selfish mind).
Please note that readers can smell those corporate followers/ greedy trolls. Shame on people who promote charter schools and vouchers for their own profits/ investment. Back2basic