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this country is so difficult to evaluate. I alike a business which turns profits, schools are asked to turn empty spaces into ideas. Profits you can enumerate; ideas cannot be summarily listed and counted.
Standardized test scores count for only so much. What about making friends? What about dealing logically with small, everyday headaches and conflicts? How can you teach the emotion of joy derived from creating music? How do you create the mind set of a 13-year-old standing on the free throw line with the outcome of the basketball game resting in the balance of that youngster’s success ratio?
Geometric equations and historical facts are one thing, getting to appreciate and accurately assess one’s own worth and place on this Earth quite another.
My senior government teacher enlightened us to the fact that this country’s forefathers were probably just as attuned to the needs of big business and making money as politicians of the current era. Our forefathers just received more favorable press coverage. It was information offered in no division-approved textbook. That same man was later named New York State’s Teacher of the Year.
I won’t even mention my four Spanish teachers who failed miserably in their efforts to make me memorize even the shortest of sentences. To this day, after five years of barely passing the subject, I have no desire to learn — or be reminded of — a foreign langauge. Today, the joke is that English is the language most foreign to me.
Supposedly, grading students is fairly easy. There are tests and quizzes and papers and homework assignements and classroom participation grades. All those factors are assessed a value and are considered important. Only if you are on the border line of two grades does throwing erasers and
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