Even though we weren’t instructed to do so, I thought I would write a bit about the Bianca article. “Wow” is one of the only words that come to mind. In our country, and honestly across the globe, I am sure the problems dealt with in this article are universal. In an effort to do our best and to govern how students learn, we may indeed be forgetting the individuals that make up the actual classroom. I have never heard of the school system “Stealing our children”, but the idea makes a lot of sense. We mandate that people bring their kids to school, send them to court if they don’t, and then communicate only what we must back to them. It can seem like a “Deal with it Mom and Dad” mentality. This became quite obvious to me just a few weeks ago when we had to take my daughter to school for her first day. Since then we only get a glimpse into what is truly happening in my daughters life within the classroom. For the first time in her life we are given little control over her environment, but what can we do? With the mere number of students and the amount of work that goes along with the job, who has time to cater to each individual student or parent? We have to make the time for this crucial part of teaching. Students and their parents are real people with real needs and concerns.
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