Traditional values in Education
What with the stupidity of the proposed Common Core curriculum for kids along with the forced unionization of the teachers and the push against charter schools, our next generation is going to be useless.
Here is one wonderful experiment going very right in New Zealand -- from
TV-NZ:
School ditches rules and loses bullies
Ripping up the playground rulebook is having incredible effects on children at an Auckland school.
Chaos may reign at Swanson Primary School with children climbing trees, riding skateboards and playing bullrush during playtime, but surprisingly the students don't cause bedlam, the principal says.
The school is actually seeing a drop in bullying, serious injuries and vandalism, while concentration levels in class are increasing.
Principal Bruce McLachlan rid the school of playtime rules as part of a successful university experiment.
"We want kids to be safe and to look after them, but we end up wrapping them in cotton wool when in fact they should be able to fall over."
Letting children test themselves on a scooter during playtime could make them more aware of the dangers when getting behind the wheel of a car in high school, he said.
"When you look at our playground it looks chaotic. From an adult's perspective, it looks like kids might get hurt, but they don't."
The bully knows that they are in the grade-school equivalent of a
gun-free zone. They can keep escalating and the worse punishment they get is a stern tut-tut from the administrator. If said bully were to get a pop on the nose and a little blood spilled from the bullied, that would put an immediate end to their career.
Kids were meant to run free at least part of the day -- it is their DNA and if you stifle it, this force will be repressed leading to all kinds of later problems.
Typical stupid progressive codswallop -- that kids can be "managed" just like adults. They can be "nudged" into the proper social behaviors.
What an abject crock of bullshit.
Posted by DaveH at January 26, 2014 8:22 PM