Yesterday, I blogged about how Californian public schools are
anything but cost free. Based on
some of the comments I received, my squirrel brain began thinking more on the
subject. I thought I’d share one
of my biggest ponderings. How do
officials expect our schools to turn out anything other than plain Jane carbon
copies of students where no one’s innate abilities are nurtured to fruition if the
officials’ only goal is to provide the barest educational requirements?
The way Californian schools have been conducting themselves
since 1992 when the No Child Left Behind program was instituted, disallows for
overachievers to excel. And those
who are already in the middle of the line are also left to their own devices, instead
of being encouraged to do more.
Seems the only students who benefit from this program are the ones who
were struggling.
Not that I’m opposed to kids who are having trouble getting
an extra helping hand. But to do
so at the cost of initiating an insatiable thirst in already over achievers…. Or the ones who display innate abilities
of art, music, creativity, etc….
Or to maintain the already middle of the line students at the status quo
rather than encouraging them to become over achievers. It…just…seems…wrong!
Have the lawmakers of our country so easily forgotten just who
set us apart from other countries?
How it was the Thomas Jeffersons, Henry Fords, Benjamin Franklins,
Abraham Lincolns, Thomas Edisons, etc with their outside-the-box mentalities
who helped forge this country into the once great nation it was?
And what about the rest of the world’s vast contributors? What of the Picassos, Motzarts,
Einsteins, etc? Where would our
world, culture and thirst for excellence lie had it not been or these
individuals who were encouraged to rise above, stand apart and have their
contributions recognized?
No child left behind?
Bah humbug, I say! Though
the intent of the concept was a righteous one, its execution has failed and is annihilating
any hope of children recognizing their unique abilities and nurturing them to
fruition!
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