it seems to all about political correctness, someone getting offended, a child getting hurt, blah, blah, blah,,,,,
This guy has the right things going. What he could do, is he and his buddies start a charter schools, who can make their own rules and regulation. school should be fun, not a prison...
So true Sea, children and adults are naturally curious about the world around them and finding a new talent they did not know they had is to expand their world to them.
When learning is no longer fun or satisfying the student will turn off. Some kids have a block of one kind or another, the challenge for a teacher is to break through that block and make the student decide on their own that they want to learn are curious and enjoy a new experience.
In my long ago education my favorite teacher was in American history that once a week or so brought in records and played them---The singer was Johnny Horton and we were encouraged to sing along to the songs of North to Alaska and The battle of New Orleans among others. No need to memorize dull dates, we knew them from his songs.
Flash forward to a small town in the UP of Michigan and my children listening to Gordon Litefoot and his
music being played as he sang of the Edmond Fitzgerald then going for recess on the shore of Lake Superior, perhaps going to school with a relative of one of the lost 21 men.
Music has a universal method of implanting in the brain a song that is remembered for 20 years after.
Just one way to teach I guess, first song I memorized was the alphabet song. Then the sayings as in Mary's violet eyes made John. ---- I am sure someone can finish the saying to learn about Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
Times change , my son tells me when he bought a scope for his son to watch the planets and stars his 8 year old became upset when he asked the boy if he could see the rings around Uranus. The boy looked at my son and told him, " That is just nasty "
