Joanne Jacobs does a great job staying on top of education news. Here are two news items recently she blogged about:
In Don’t stress the teacher Joanne reports that a Montreal school found out one of their teachers had murdered his wife. They fired him. A judge said sorry you can't. Joanne hopes that the students are careful not to put him under any stress. I hope all the parents pull their children from the school. Maybe a few of them will homeschool.
Our society focuses greatly on students who are falling behind, who are struggling, who have limitations or handicaps. Joanne points out that we are Failing our geniuses. There was a recent Times article on this. Joanne writes "The argument is that we invest 10 times more money in educating students who perform way below the average than we spend on students who are way above average (145 IQ and up). Some get bored and drop out." In 1984 we were told that we were all equal, but some were more equal than others. There is a problem when the children who could solve many of society's problems are not given the tools, training, or education to help improve the world.
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