(This post stems from a discussion I had in my curriculum and policy class recently.)
There’s a movement to make us put our humanness aside and perform as dutiful cogs in the larger machine… Maybe they are right, but I don’t think so. Tom Sobol
What frustrates me is what I see as the powerful disconnect between educational policy as it exists and educational policy as it should be. Asking ourselves first and foremost what is the experience of students and teachers in the classroom and then building from there is common sense sort of. I think this is what caused all the frustration in our class discussion. It isnt that this doesnt make sense, but rather, as one of the members of the class said, this just isnt tried all that often in America.
