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2 thoughts on “What School is All About”
I enjoy Dr. Krashen’s humor and incisive use of irony.
However, I am hijacking the thread to report two very positive events at my school today.
1. During first period today a student came to me with a very worried look on his face and asked if he could go back to his zero period class and look for some money he had lost. When he returned, he had not found the money, so I asked how much it was, thinking it might be lunch money. It was $100.00 and intended for his tickets to the Homecoming dance. I told him to go the the front office and report the loss; perhaps whoever found it would turn it in. While the student was at the office, a freshman football player brought the money to the office. My student had dropped the money on the ground, the freshman found it and brought it to the office. The office staff called the freshman’s parents to tell them they can be proud of their son, and one of our APs is putting a note into the weekly bulletin. Needless to say, my student was greatly relieved.
2. I attended an IEP meeting after school. My student is both a special education student and an English language learner who is taking German, and all reports were very positive. He is doing well in all of his classes and needs few or no accommodations. It was a very positive meeting, and I was able to report that the student uses German outside of the classroom as well as inside the classroom.
Take that, all of you Dolores Umbridges! There is an entire world out there.
I agree with Krashen very much on this. I also think that, to use a common adage, ‘we are the ones we’ve been waiting for’, to help pull our schools out of this dislocated, disconnected, sterile, narrow-minded approach to education. Just talking about it, or asking the questions, with even one colleague may make the difference in the end.
Thanks Robert for sharing the positive news in your school!