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This interesting search concept was inspired by Scott at Dangerously Irrelevant. While I didn’t get as extensive a list, I did get a somewhat similar one. However, Liz says that the Google search may be meaningless, while others have piped in that perhaps the “school makes me…” starting point is misleading.
While I try to be careful not to make generalizations of what schools are doing, as there are some awesome schools, teachers and systems in place, there is also a reality that we need to recognize: education in America is reaching points of desperation requiring some serious overhaul. If you don’t believe this then you’re schooling with blinders on. That’s the reality. And reformers in education and learning did not come up with this using a Google search.
But let’s go back to this specific Google search and our game of semantics using the starter “schools make me…” The starter is not misleading and for many, as one comment on Scott’s blog mentioned, if all schools were doing it right, then “schools make me…” should render these results,
empowered
knowledgeable
feel important
be creative
hungry for more
think outside the box
the person I want to be
see other sides and opinions
believe in myself
yearn to make a difference
But they don’t.
Another twist on this is a what “school allows me…” search which renders slightly different results and more on the positive.
But I honestly have an issue with what schools “allow” me because it reeks very strongly of education done to me as opposed to me being an active participant in my own educational and learning process. See the problem?
Others tried Google searches of “education is” or “learning is” with more positive results: education is the great equalizer, the key to success, is freedom, the passport to the future, etc. It makes you think: does that mean education and learning are not connected to schooling? Hmmm.
So given all this, what were your results? What does school really make you? Or allow you to be?
“In 2008, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike left Germany with their five children and came to the United States asking for refugee status as an oppressed minority. The Roemikes, you see, insist on homeschooling their children, which is illegal under German law.
“”The German Constitutional court has said it’s alright for Germany to ban home education because the public has an interest in counteracting, or stamping out, parallel societies,” explains Mike Donnelly, a lawyer for the Home School Legal Defense Association and a representative for the Romeike family. Donnelly tells Reason’s Nick Gillespie that such laws have a long history in Germany, before, during, and after the Nazi regime.
“The family currently resides in the U.S. and is awaiting a verdict from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, hoping to be granted refugee status. If deported back to Germany, they could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and the possible loss of custody of their children.
Donnelly also talks about America’s own history with home schooling, which has only been recognized as a fully legal option over the past 30 years or so.”
“These videos depict Professional Artist Educators that have made a career out of sharing their personal stories as well as connecting with youth everywhere through the arts.”
“Unity Charity engages and empowers youth to be role models and leaders in their communities.”
“Margaret DePaula wrote this profound, wonderful poem while she was a Special Ed teacher, for more than 20 years. ‘I had this on my classroom wall all the years that I taught!’ “
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“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.”
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