Comments on: Duncework http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2008/01/25/duncework/ over 5 billion neurons served Sun, 06 May 2012 23:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Morgan J. Locke http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2008/01/25/duncework/comment-page-1/#comment-27204 Morgan J. Locke Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:41:36 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2008/01/25/duncework/#comment-27204 Yeah. It's appalling, how much talent we waste, ain't it? Bright, excited and creative entity in; extruded educational product out. Yeah. It’s appalling, how much talent we waste, ain’t it? Bright, excited and creative entity in; extruded educational product out.

]]> By: Rory Harper http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2008/01/25/duncework/comment-page-1/#comment-27166 Rory Harper Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:07:39 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2008/01/25/duncework/#comment-27166 This one is painful, Morgan. It's weird when you're around kids of various ages enough to watch the stages where the lights go out in their eyes. They start off with a joyous, pure hunger to learn and create, and by about the 4th grade, they're shutting down and are just enduring school. Rach had one of the best educations that HISD had to offer, and almost all of her HS classes were in the International Baccalaureate program, where they actually learned to do stuff like research and write and learn. But, in order to get some specific credit hours, she was forced to take a couple of mainstream classes. I still remember how enraged she got at the total waste of her time and energy. Both the teachers and the kids were just going through the motions, and almost no teaching or learning was taking place, just baby-sitting and teaching to the state-mandated tests. And this was in a highly-rated school. This one is painful, Morgan. It’s weird when you’re around kids of various ages enough to watch the stages where the lights go out in their eyes. They start off with a joyous, pure hunger to learn and create, and by about the 4th grade, they’re shutting down and are just enduring school.

Rach had one of the best educations that HISD had to offer, and almost all of her HS classes were in the International Baccalaureate program, where they actually learned to do stuff like research and write and learn.

But, in order to get some specific credit hours, she was forced to take a couple of mainstream classes. I still remember how enraged she got at the total waste of her time and energy. Both the teachers and the kids were just going through the motions, and almost no teaching or learning was taking place, just baby-sitting and teaching to the state-mandated tests. And this was in a highly-rated school.

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