Friday, February 28, 2014

Rough draft :(

Mrs. Williams,

I don't know what to do about this thing. I won't be able to turn in a rough draft today for credit. If anything I'd like to meet you and go over things because I'm just all disemboggled and what not. I know that's not a real word but I like it. Yet I do seriously need help.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Waiting for superman!

This movie, really upset me because of who suffered; the kids. They have no power to decide their future they must just go with the flow of things regardless of what they want. It trully upset me when the little girl couldn't attend her graduation but had to watch everyone else go because she lived across the street.

What also upset me was when the other little girl who wanted to be a doctor or vet she was denied entrance to the school she wanted to go to because it was an at random lottery. I really hope that this girl achieves her dreams and one day save all the lives that she possibly can.

As for the boy who got to attend the boarding school, he just pissed me off by picking that top bunk instead of getting the bed that was by itself like come on bro. Get your life together.

Then there was little Francisco who teacher had to been a prick, his mother just wanted to be enveloped in his life and school, but the teacher didn't feel the same way. He didn't feel the need to let her be involved. I felt bad for him because he wasn't bad at school or anything he was just another victim of an oppressive teacher and school system. I hope that with his mom's help they can get through any obstacle put in his way and he can achieve whatever dreams he wants.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Lack of resources!

Does a lack of resources matter? I do believe they matter a lot. The better materials and more of them that we have, the better we can teach people. They not only are a tool to teach but they work like a placebo, knowing that you have good materials makes you feel better about the  enviroment you're in. 

When a person is lacking resources to learn, they don't feel that they are even good enough or worth the time to be taught. Taking away little things effects a persons ability to learn because you take away their happiness of learning, and that is not cool!

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Fixing what you didn't break.

Okay to answer how to fix an oppressive educative system, is well frankly I don't have a sure fire way but I do have some ideas. Idea nĂºmero uno we stop giving grades! I believe in the narrative type of educative system, where instead of grades a teacher helps you on your weaknesses in any given area. 
For instance say we were in a math class taking a midterm on what we learned for the first half of the semester, and instead of either passing with 70% or more you either pass or fail on how well you retained the info and if your work reflects that and what you got wrong, you would be able to redo and fully understand the material. Yet we are in a system that is either pass or fail and no answer to why. 

On a side note I also think we need to have more expressive things in school, we need to stop cutting art programs, music programs, but that doesn't mean to cut sports. We need to find a middle ground where we can support all aspects of school and it's demographic's needs. We also need to be able to teach in all modes, visual, kinestetic, and auditory. We must hit all the bases for each one of these type of people. This would be my solutions to an oppressive educative system.