Comments on: The Mind of the Archgod of the Earth http://btownerrant.com/2012/02/24/the-mind-of-the-archgod-of-the-earth/ Where Commoners Rant Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: focus http://btownerrant.com/2012/02/24/the-mind-of-the-archgod-of-the-earth/#comment-769 focus Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:02:38 +0000 http://btownerrant.com/?p=3597#comment-769 I am sure you have read this. I came into contact with it recently. It is dated now (being from 2009 I think) but still has relevance.
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/questions_education_reformers_arent_asking_20100318/

]]> By: focus http://btownerrant.com/2012/02/24/the-mind-of-the-archgod-of-the-earth/#comment-768 focus Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:41:12 +0000 http://btownerrant.com/?p=3597#comment-768 But his attitude also perpetuates the idea that college is for everybody. It should be something everyone is able to access but not required for all. Just as everyone who wants to own a house or home should have the access to be able own a home but it shouldn’t be the ideal–you aren’t a failure because you don’t own a home. You aren’t a failure because you chose not to attend college. It puts success as a person in the terminology of material goods again. The house, the car, the college education. These programs focus on the carrot of “attending college” but they don’t focus on learning for learning’s sake, which is the point after all. How do they gauge success? By graduates attending college? That may be their marker but have those students learned to think for themselves? Critically think? Not likely. They have learned to take tests well.

]]> By: S.S. http://btownerrant.com/2012/02/24/the-mind-of-the-archgod-of-the-earth/#comment-766 S.S. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:40:09 +0000 http://btownerrant.com/?p=3597#comment-766 “Its students attend school from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; they attend school every other Saturday; they attend school during the summer; and they make a commitment to learn. More than 80% of KIPP alumni nationwide are attending college.”

I’m horrified by this. This means nothing in terms of college preparedness. Also, don’t 80% of public school students attend college these days? If the KIPP system is so great, why don’t 100% attend college? A commitment to learning has nothing to do with the number of hours spent in school, and as you point out is just a factory system that discourages real learning in the form of self-guided, independent thought, research, curiosity.

This makes my blood boil. I hate this man.

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