tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post5304873929522800292..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: ME: Hope, Grit and Corporate BaloneyPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-59487739702674905922018-01-22T17:19:40.443-05:002018-01-22T17:19:40.443-05:00Dammit, I want a Like button for the Mount Sinai c...Dammit, I want a Like button for the Mount Sinai comment! :-)CrunchyMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434606158400653601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-74373806312744622472018-01-22T08:29:24.629-05:002018-01-22T08:29:24.629-05:00This reminds me of the standards for English I had...This reminds me of the standards for English I had to use when writing lesson plans last year. Instead of saying "read" it would be "decode meaning of words using knowledge and origin of prefixes, suffixes, and etymology of words". You couldn't question the standards, either. Apparently they were distributed on Mount Sinai. lbwolperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09789084098827243880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-646723742365122762018-01-22T06:57:27.110-05:002018-01-22T06:57:27.110-05:00Some of us are out there pushing back against the ...Some of us are out there pushing back against the ClassDojo's of the classroom - the whole gamification of Being Good is part of this - but yeah, more parents need to be aware.CrunchyMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434606158400653601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-56916573968172720632018-01-21T18:48:47.131-05:002018-01-21T18:48:47.131-05:00Though I remain a big believer that mockery is sti...Though I remain a big believer that mockery is still one of the best ways to point out that the emperor is naked, you may have a point as well. My question is, where is the local resistance?<br /><br />When outcome-based-education was crushed in the 90s, that was not just because of political resistance on the state level, but because a whole lot of local school boards found themselves facing angry parents and administrators found themselves on the phone with more angry parents.<br /><br />In districts where behavior grades are half a report card, where are the angry parents? Is everyone okay with this, or are they just resigned to it?Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-38174081812325484882018-01-21T18:37:45.233-05:002018-01-21T18:37:45.233-05:00"I don't get it. Do people who write this..."I don't get it. Do people who write this kind of stuff just kind of giggle to themselves the whole time, knowing that it's nearly self-satirical argle bargle?" <br /><br />I am finding it hard that by now you still don't get it. They are setting up metrics for "social emotional training" for SEL social impact bonds Peter. That is what they are doing. http://www.sel4ma.org/sel-to-reduce-costs/<br /><br />When you write about topics like this in a funny but dismissive way without placing within the context of global financialization of children and their data, you aren't doing anything to build the resistance. If anything you lead people to write it off on the presumption that these people don't know exactly what they are doing. The DO know. And even though it sounds implausible, they are moving forward setting up SEL standards and metrics. In some parts of Maine behavior grades are almost half the report card.<br /><br />Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460110630084320034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-5078179651615980952018-01-20T18:35:29.504-05:002018-01-20T18:35:29.504-05:00Meanwhile, when you pull back the curtain on Bill ...Meanwhile, when you pull back the curtain on Bill Zima's "cultivate hope in all learners" baloney, you find that once again the State of Maine DOE is attempting to push back Proficiency-based Diploma target dates to 2022 through 2026. The original plan was for the class of 2017 but what's the hurry when you can come up with more baloney, especially with no viable curricular model to make it happen, ever. http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/bills_128th/billtexts/HP115201.asp Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356297819062520930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-19361343441354711322018-01-20T18:07:06.868-05:002018-01-20T18:07:06.868-05:00Back when email chains were a thing, there was one...Back when email chains were a thing, there was one that went around a lot about a woman going to McDonald's with her family and encountering two homeless men in line ahead of them. The email absolutely drips about how close these men obviously were, the one man was obviously disabled and the other was taking care of him and obviously they'd been together through thick and thin, blah, blah, blah. Well, the heroine of the email comes up to them men when they get to the counter and, instead of the mere coffee they were going to order, she buys them a full breakfast with the works and helps them take the food to the table. More gushing, and then she ends with something like, "What I gave those men was far more than just a breakfast. I could tell by the looks on their faces that I had given them HOPE." I replied to everyone foolish enough to forward me that email, "No, lady, you didn't give them hope, you gave them a $5 heart attack on a plastic tray. That look on their faces was gas."<br /><br />Ms. Kanaan's talk of "hope" gives me pretty much the same reaction, only worse, because "hope" is what these children are getting instead of an education. They might be better off with a $5 McDonald's breakfast.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.com