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One of the worst teacher education systems leads to one of the world’s most admired and respected education systems… the Finland of North America…. Hmmmmm

From a parent’s perspective - “Thus to see Others not as ontologically given by as historically constituted would
be to erode the exclusivist biases we so often ascribe to cultures, our own not least. Cultures may then be represented as zones of control or abandonment,
of recollection and of forgetting, of force or of dependence, of exclusiveness or of sharing, all taking place in the global history that is our element.”

Based on the hellish treatment and disrespect that I received from the pubic education establishment on my simple concerns of my child’s learning and her struggles in the 3 Rs, Furthermore on the last 10 years spent studying the public education system to try to understand why the public schools of the 21st century were no longer educating children to their full academic potential in knowledge and fundamental skills, all in order to fight the education officials and sometimes the classroom educators that my child was capable of high academic work and that I as a parent, my simple concerns should be the school’s top priority - that all children should have a solid foundation in the 3 Rs to access the knowledge of the world.  I will translate the edubabble of the above quote in simple words that everyone would understand.

The first part of the quote is in reference to the very nature of relationships based on the historically line of culture and beliefs of society and individuals, and where as the second part, is giving the student educators, the permission to used their personal biases and beliefs as their personal guide to become change agents in the classrooms. In other words, it is all about dissing the unique individualism of a person. the uniqueness of each person, their personal experiences and knowledge banks that has shaped them from the time of birth, while giving the public education establishment the permission to override the unique individualism of a person/student and their learning needs to one that imposes the biases and misconceptions of the educators upon the students that leads to faulty knowledge sets, low literacy and numeracy skills, and in the end, students without the skills and knowledge to understand the 21st century world around them. As for parents, they are constantly being belittled by the public education establishment that in the end, prevents them or with great difficulty to worked for their children’s education best interests and to passed down their skills, their experiences and knowledge banks to their children.

On a passing note, last week I had an interesting conversation with some other adults discussing the latest developments concerning town activities. They being non-teachers wanted to know what I thought, about educators taking over, only to see the events and activities to go down-hill and attendance drops like a lead balloon. When the educators are constantly oppressing the skills, the abilities and the knowledge banks of the non-teachers within the community as the educators do very well within the confines of the school walls, expect trouble from the citizens who are the non-teachers and the surprised, perplexed looks of the educators, when they are told to leave by the non-teachers who are taking over. Interesting times ahead in my rural community - a brand new set of rebels are being seeded that want good outcomes, for the work that is put in and not drive people away who are being dissed by others who are riddled with biases and misconceptions of people. In the small town that I live in, the educator class rates at the top riddled with biases and misconceptions of others who are not educators.

In short, the above quote is all about giving the educators the permission to imposed their beliefs, biases and misconceptions upon their students and parents alike while justifying their actions upon the perceived deficits and faults of the students/parents.

This paper is hilarious, probably accurate, but also quite unfair.

I recently completed a grad degree in education at York University, which is reputed for its focus on literary criticism and Freudian theory at the expense of research.  I saw nothing like this.  Without exception, my courses were well-organized, relevant to education, and delivered with care.  My professors were serious and knowledgeable.

It is likely that every university has tenured professors who have lost focus, and courses that are deserving of ridicule.  Grad students love to skewer the silliest ones over a beer, but they avoid enrolling in them.  Somehow the dozen or so students in this course didn’t get the word.

I just got off FB and someone made a comment in reference to the poor leadership and the thinking skills of politicians, government staff and the social institutes. I learned something new today, and had a good laugh on one of educationalists that all aided and abetted into turning the education faculties into what they are today.

He turned out to be a Canadian educator - here is his bio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter

And a rather humorous article from Bloomberg - it should bring back some memories for those who had parents that had to deal with government.  http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/mar2009/ca20090331_822526.htm