tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post8647463441318217692..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: turrible and typical..., REDUX (originally posted 7/9/11)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-84555944961907818402011-07-11T15:24:03.145-05:002011-07-11T15:24:03.145-05:00I agree with everything you've stated. I would...I agree with everything you've stated. I would add to the very top of your list the disintegration of families--particularly the Black family. In 2008 there were 625,314 live Afrikan American births--72.3 percent of those births were to unmarried Afrikan American women. As regards the digital disconnect--massive funding is required to upgrade physical plants and personnel, while just the opposite is happening. Funding for education is being cut at the state level across America.<br /><br />However, the issues you are raising were not the subject of the post. These cheating scandals are directly related to NCLB. What creativity teachers might be able to bring to the table are held captive to the tyranny of standardized testing. Teachers teach to the test, using pacing guides which leave minimal room for such worthy attributes as critical thinking skills.Makheru Bradleyhttp://profiles.google.com/mkhrubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-91031057147030246312011-07-11T14:07:28.629-05:002011-07-11T14:07:28.629-05:00Urban public schools were failing badly before NCL...Urban public schools were failing badly before NCLB. Matter fact, I'd trace the genesis of it back to when schools and administrators stopped whooping behinds ruthlessly, publicly, and daily. At the very least, when the adults asserted their physical control over the school buildings, there was comparatively safe and orderly conduct within the schools themselves, whether there was much in the way of active learning and engagement, or not.<br /><br />As for when the constituents ceased valuing education as a primary means of escaping poverty...., well - that's a whole other very involved discussion unto itself.<br /><br />Finally, there is the challenging issue of digital colonists struggling and failing to keep up with and effectively address the content and media needs of digital natives, that's a whole other ball of wax, as well - and one likely so deep into the conflict of interest space of administrators and teachers who are themselves not digital natives but have many years to go before they reach their pensions, and no intention of moving out of the way prior to that time.CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-51665719026046341172011-07-11T12:55:20.151-05:002011-07-11T12:55:20.151-05:00I'm not making excuses. I'm simply indica...I'm not making excuses. I'm simply indicating how some people are responding to tyranny. The institutional change required is rebellion against the tyranny of the regulations put in place by George Bush, and continued by Barack Obama. Teachers are not alone when it comes to lacking the courage to challenge the oligarchic psychopathocracy.Makheru Bradleyhttp://profiles.google.com/mkhrubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-45095436382870878142011-07-09T20:14:31.452-05:002011-07-09T20:14:31.452-05:00Bro. Makheru..., I expect so much more from you th...Bro. Makheru..., I expect so much more from you than apologetics and equivocation on behalf of these oxygen-thieving parasites. The administrators and teachers are abject failures and lack the combined creativity and administrative courage to make the wholesale institutional changes required to do better with the ignants and ni nis that have been left in their charge....,CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com