Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: What is the role of the public schools? The Center for Ethical Leadership (founded in 1991) says that public education is foundational to a healthy democracy and developing our humanity—not to have every student achieve high scores on standardized tests. After you read this post, you… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: In the Vergara trial, the judge’s verdict was based on unproven theories that a few incompetent teachers would ruin a child’s ability to earn an education. The numbers presented in one theory were one to two percent of teachers might be incompetent—not “are incompetent” but “might… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The two Fs I’m talking about are Finland and France. In another forum, this comment was made about Finland’s public schools: “Comparisons with Finland are foolish – virtually no childhood poverty, income equality instead of inequality and few immigrants … and high suicide rates.” Here’s my… Read more