I'd like to offer evidence of a solution. There is a school in
Massachusetts called the Sudbury Valley School. The students decide what
they want to learn, and when/how they want to learn it. There are only
classes if the students want them. The school has been in existance for
40 years, and all of the graduates are literate. The school has never
seen a case of dyslexia. All of the students learn to read, yet they are
never expressly taught how to read. What is going on there that those who
promote traditional schooling don't want us to know? Are all the
mainstream ideas about education utterly wrong? I think so. The school's
site is:

sudval.org

On 11/06/09, ElemESOL wrote:
> I agree. Children and adults learn by doing. But all the programs at
> my school are so teacher-centered. (We don't teach
> standards/curriculumn/objectives, we have "programs" we have to stick
> to like glue.) The experts from the programs tell us to do a lot of
> modeling. Well, if the kids aren't doing most of the work, they aren't
> learning and it's not at their level. But we are forced to teach the
> programs the district spends millions on. It's like living on a
> hampster wheel, only we can't hop off.
>
> I also agree it's all about family values, not money/race/religion. I
> wish school could be a choice, but could you imagine all the kids who
> would wander the streets all day? Sadly, we need schools to be holding
> tanks.

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