Reason dot com talks out of both sides of its mouths. Reason supports school systems that create kids/adults that are afraid to take risks.
Reason is heavily behind charter schools that focus obsessively on standardized test scores. Success Academy gets high test scores by berating low-performing students and their families until the child is taken out of the school. According to the NY Times, Success Academy spend four months of the year prepping for state exams, leading to some children having breakdowns, crying and wetting their pants. Success Academy keeps a supply of clean underwear and sweatpants because pants wetting is so frequent.
A homeless 1st grader was screamed at and punished for a wrong answer. Her mother took her out of school which is what Success Academy wanted all along. Look at how the children are forced to clasp their hands. They are also forced to hold their books a certain way when reading. Is that how you create a future entrepreneur?
A principal at another school created a "got to go" list for all the students he wanted out of his elementary school. Look at how Reason is defending kicking children out of school.
If You Don’t Approve of Success Academy, Don't Send Your Kids There
The teacher in the above video needs to get laid......bad. She wasn't wrong to be slightly upset, but she's been around children so much, she's becoming one with her emotional IQ. She's showing the frustration of a 7 year old, to motivate other 7 yr olds. She needs to get out of the bubble a little bit, and take a cruise or something. I wouldn't say she's a bad teacher, but she's losing herself trying to find perfect performance. You scar chiodren, and give them performance anxiety, when you do this shyt.
She should've calmly done what she did at the end, and got another student to complete the assignment. That furthers friendly competition and is a much better motivation stimulus than flaming children. Just my take.
For the 2nd video, I don't believe in charter schools, at all. None...not any whatsoever. I believe in not splitting the funds that should go to public achools, and create and find the best teachers, that can assess and find a place for all the students. When your school is ran like a business, you lose the most important part of teaching, the personal connection.
Uniforms is another story, because it helps to keep the focus on what you know, rather that what you have, but I'd rather see kids feel like individuals, as learning is a lifelong, individual pursuit. I want to raise children with valuable critical thinking skills, as well as knowing the basics in math, science, languages, and reading comprehension (the most important to me).
I think everyone's idea of trying to teach the most amount of students, to be the highest caliber possible, with the least amount of funding is creating a bottleneck of ideas, and most that come out of it are bad. I would prefer systems that find the best students, of different tiers, and have them learn with each other in an integrated manner, as sometimes your peers, if living in the same community, messes up the progress of over and underachievers with jealousy and humiliation. Like occupations, I think children finding they can graduate or be demoted into different tiers increases their focus.
