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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 5 Comments
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I love it when geek analogies come together!
I can only hope that, when everything is said and done, there are more teachers who care about their students over the administration. As a parent, and school over-achiever, I now understand more than ever that it’s helping them through the system intact that is actually more important.
I think there are. We just regularly run up against what we know is right in comparison to what admin needs to keep the school running. It’s a difficult line to walk. In some cases, you get the institutional cheating that happened in the Atlanta School District. The thing that I think so many people, at least in the United States, don’t consider, is that teachers are actually people. If they get fired for not complying with the cheating policy of one administrator, they’re not going to get hired by another. We have to worry about how we’re going to put food on the table, too. No one really considers that.
Thanks for this article. I am also a teacher and a nerd/geek/sci-fi/fantasy fan who firmly believes in the truths you have discovered.
(I also believe in faeries, because I am bound and determined that none of them will die on my watch, but that is another story, to be told at another time).
Visit me at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/High-Expectations/14063192690 for a chuckle about our common classroom predicaments.
Came across this article today, and thought of your post. I think it’s a bit idealistic, but I like the concept. Just today my mom and I were talking about how schools even LOOK like factories.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/09/01/the-single-best-idea-for-reforming-k-12-education/
I didn’t gradumate from “high” school. I hated it. I got my GED/Good Enough Diploma. I did luv college, however. And I DID gradumate that lovely, although highly corporate, institution.
Only once was the history of unions ever mentioned. ONCE. And that was in a college course. ONE college course. We pu$h corporatocracy in our public schools. The addiction is worse than crack. The end product (and I DO mean product)? A consumer driven economy populated by consumer zombies.
You, and teachers like you, are amazing. I simply don’t see how you do it. Can’t help but bring a tear to me eye.
Don’t worry though, in my book, you’re cool no matter what you choose to do.