With the FCAT and No Child Left Behind, schools are heavily pressured to double their efforts as a school, and improve their scores and ratings. This seems like a good idea, but there are a few idiotic things about it. Doing well is rewarded, doing poorly is punished. Receiving high scores on the FCAT gets [...]
When in the 8th grade at Sanford Middle School, I was already a fluent typist and had taken a few classes to prove it. In high-school, I wanted straight-away to start in web-design classes, but was required to take Business Systems Technology (where you learn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). I opted to take an exemption [...]
A conversation between Christine and I (prompted by her mother and she) prompted me to think about why school hasn’t captured my attention, like so many expect it should, and I came up with this: I don’t generally set goals that are related to school because school has failed me, and I shall candidly offer [...]