tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post1463893273753108720..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: If You Don't Want Civil Disobedience, Stop Politicizing Our SchoolsDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-42921982594318523102015-02-22T18:29:13.331-08:002015-02-22T18:29:13.331-08:00Dienne, you make a very good point. We talk all th...Dienne, you make a very good point. We talk all the time about child-centered education, but then we make them get up way before their biology says they should get up, and eat lunch at silly times.<br /><br />Whether charters run counter to this, however, is an open question...<br />Dukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-37330987130067905332015-02-22T15:14:56.348-08:002015-02-22T15:14:56.348-08:00"and then opt her out of having first lunch, ..."and then opt her out of having first lunch, because she is way too cranky in the afternoon if she eats lunch at 10:30 a.m."<br /><br />I'm sorry, but is making kids each lunch at 10:30 actually considered a reasonable thing for schools to do? Hell yes I'd opt my kid out of that! What employer could get away with telling employees that they have to eat lunch at 10:30?<br /><br />And I'm sorry because I know that particular line has almost nothing to do with what you wrote about, but it is yet another symptom of the unreasonable top-down, anti-child approach that has increasingly taken hold of public education and which, even aside from the whole testing/Common Core thing, has parents frustrated with public schools and looking to leave if they have any escape hatch at all.<br /><br />The best way to get rid of the rephormers is to make public schools places where reasonable human beings would actually want to be. How about if we start focusing on what children actually need rather than what's convenient for the school? This is how charter schools attract parental interest.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-22483605724039821672015-02-21T15:31:27.234-08:002015-02-21T15:31:27.234-08:00"Why aren't the reformies also advocating..."Why aren't the reformies also advocating for things like school funding reform and reduced class sizes, which have tons of evidence to support them? "<br /><br />Because technology will solve it all for cheapcheapcheap! And what technology doesn't solve, prefab curriculum from our friends at Pearson will! <br /><br />See, that was easy.Seth Kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12911164106637399507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-71254687428658087542015-02-21T11:17:36.737-08:002015-02-21T11:17:36.737-08:00This is such an excellent analysis of the situatio...This is such an excellent analysis of the situation and exactly what I'm constantly trying to remind people of when I engage in (frustrating) discussions with those who are misinformed or just plain ignorant of the facts. <br />Full support of the Newark Student Union! You go kids...and thanks JJ, as usualP. Gruntherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737485008917583535noreply@blogger.com