Education
John Gatto knows what he is talking about. After teaching in a statewith one of the highest per student budgets in the nation, which used manyof the most progressive teaching theories, and still produces some of thelowest test scores in the nation, his frustration comes from a wealth ofexperience. Teachers start their careers with a sincere desire to buildinto the lives of students. But when their hands are tied by multi-cultural disconnectedness and a socialist teaching culture, the frustrationwhich is shown by Mr. Gatto is likely only the tip of the icebergrepresenting the depth of the nationwide problem. From Atlanta toMinneapolis, news papers are filled with stories of failing students,failing schools, and school systems which are confused as to the source ofthe problem. Maybe it is time that the teachers and principles admit thatthey are the source of much of the problem, and set about to restoreaccountability and high academic expectations, rather than dumbing downcurriculum (Haines, 2002) , and accepting the mediocre results they The 7 lesson's John Gatto says are taught be example every day in thecommercialized, impersonal mass production educational factories are:
* EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY: By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors and disgraces I teach kids to surrender their will to the predestined chain of command * INTELLECTUAL DEPENDENCY: Good people wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. In 1992, there was one charterschool in the United States. * CLASS POSITION: I teach that students must stay in the class where they belong. For these reasons, children become lessinterested in school, and then teachers have to invent more excitingreasons for them to become involved in the classroom. Dobson, who hadlimited his comments to California. On the same day, popular Christian talkshow host Marlon Maddoux also gave his support to Dr. Laura said on her April 9 broadcast, "I stand with Dr. Tougherdiscipline, more standardized tests, longer days, and most otherconventional solutions are laughably short of the mark. The impact of these 7 rules are felt at every level, and in responsechildren learn that their efforts are misplaced in school, and their timecould be better spent elsewhere. "We need to killthe poison plant we created," Gatto has written. * ONE CAN'T HIDE: I teach children they are always watched, that each is under constant surveillance by myself and my colleagues.
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