dear john skul letter

Instead of telling and testing , educators ought to be listening to us, hands-on and gleaning information from the lifetime learning community about what we can find howdt about the things we wonder about, but do not have the time to address directly. Teaching should be supportive of what we already know and inquisitive toward what we feel we need to know, so that learning can flow and we can advance toward reasonable solutions to the problems that we feel we must address.

Currently, you put forth the knowledge base and say open wide and shove it down the throats of the students, with extra hot sauce according to the bell schedule of the day. Is this any way to run an airlines? er, public skul? Selective memory and constant propaganda, short time frames, broken continuity, cognitive dissonance, audio frequency manipulation, memory holes, nothing whole, all dissected, digested broken down pablum .... time for true students to stop for a while, drop howdt and draw back and make sense of the whole situation in a calm, rational, reasonable manner.

with love... dr. lenny

the local msm information rag proudly announce the latest raise and A+ rating for the local school district superintendent who is currently presiding over a high school rated low on the statewide school scale, which has just had a significant panic over a school shooting - punishing all the kids with more 'security' while rewarding the bullies with attention. The entire community is in economic shambles, yet the school system offers more of the same. I'll offer net-based learning, thank you, with hands on field components that require spending the time doing the things that you are learning about. Just in time education, rather than old, methodical, brain cramming.