Okay, I can do this...I don't like to write my personal opinions on super important topics. A) I'm not putting them out there for debate 2) I am completely unqualified to base most of my opinions on important topics on anything other than feelings. So...in light of all of that, this will be completely unpolitical and uneducated (funny considering the topic) and my opinion.
1) I think that people who go into teaching because they truly care about the students and the world are amazing! I think, generally speaking, that they don't make enough for the amount of work, heart, and soul that they do. I think that we pay the wrong people in society the wrong amounts and teachers, good teachers, should make more. I think teachers should be respected more. I think children are not taught to respect their teachers.
2) I think that kids do not learn all the same way and we do a disservice to them by trying to teach them all the same way, which takes me to number 3.
3) We need smaller schools and smaller classrooms and more teachers. Classroom sizes are too big. Kids get lost in the crowd. If you're a great student you get noticed and if you're a troubled student you get noticed and all the kids that fall in the middle of those, get lost. It's not the teachers fault. It's not the schools fault. It's just how it's designed.
4) I am not a fan of standardized testing. I don't think that it truly measures the student's abilities or intelligence. I think that there are a lot of really smart kids who don't test well. We opt one of children out of the NeSA test because of the anxiety that it produces. I don't think that's the answer for all kids but it is for this one. Please note that our other children have all taken the NeSA and will continue to do so. It's just not right for one of them.
So those are my big thoughts. I don't offer solutions to these because I don't know what the solutions are and like I said earlier, I'm completely unqualified to make those decisions.
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