---Hi Everyone,
I had to make some comments about this strand of thread. I am a visual artist who earns her living teaching art in elementary school,
I'm not a pedagogist ( or a good speller). Please forgive "school" as an institution. Those who work in it are just like all segments of the population,
the "good", the "bad" and the "OMG, why are you in this field?" Our society , in my opinion, has constantly put more and more responsibility on schools and has never given the teachers the information , tools, or time to fully do something about it. Please take heart, Ed and all of you who find yourself nodding in agreement with his words.
It IS better and it WILL be even more improved in the future. I see my colleagues constantly go above and beyond trying to honestly make things the way that the students need them to be and I am in year
28 of my career.
BTW ED, I consider you are great teacher. All of your postings leave me more involved with Newtons and anxious to go and try things that I never had the courage to do before.
Thank you............Carol
"Art like morality, begins by drawing the line somewhere."
Ed Kummel wrote:
>
>I was ADD before they called it ADD. Child
>psychologists all said that I was "nervous" and
>prescribed a really dangerous drug to solve the
>problem.
I hate the way teachers
>teach! (no offence to any "good" teachers on the list)
>and I hate everything that school stands for!
>It sucked being ADD in the '60s!
>Ed
>web/gadget guru
>
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