Life Is Not Purgatory
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Education
April noted that someone had commented to the ATA that our teachers spend too much time 'thinking' and tinktering with the education system.
To that man I have little to say, except that perhaps he should goto the United States to look at an education system in shambles. I had the occassion to speak (while on the plane to Birmingham) with a retired Arizona school teacher, who now lives in Sweetgrass, MT the bordertown on the US side of the Alberta/Montana border.
The US Education system is in in shambles for an utter lack of credibility of thier testing and educational systems, when combined with a lack of curriculum controls and vast discrepancies in the quality of education the teachers themselves received! At least our teachers get together and compare notes so that for the most part our teachers on the same proverbal page!
April noted that someone had commented to the ATA that our teachers spend too much time 'thinking' and tinktering with the education system.
To that man I have little to say, except that perhaps he should goto the United States to look at an education system in shambles. I had the occassion to speak (while on the plane to Birmingham) with a retired Arizona school teacher, who now lives in Sweetgrass, MT the bordertown on the US side of the Alberta/Montana border.
The US Education system is in in shambles for an utter lack of credibility of thier testing and educational systems, when combined with a lack of curriculum controls and vast discrepancies in the quality of education the teachers themselves received! At least our teachers get together and compare notes so that for the most part our teachers on the same proverbal page!
