i firmly believe that the educational system is not built for every student. Not every child is able to sit still, read for an hour, get a five minute break wherein running is not allowed, and then do it again for a 6-7 part cycle each day, five days a week. Then 9 weeks off in the summer? Why? Are we still farming? Do we still need our kids in the fields with us? Or are they now more likely to be hanging out at the seven eleven from eleven to seven each day? its frustrating that the system is so broken and so malaligned to our society's needs and it isn't attempting to look more closely at what works better. And why force students with special needs into program upon program that doesn't work for them. Its downright upsetting to traumatize a student like that. Why move them schools, districts, classes just for another "try" at a program. The idea of their often fragile systems undergoing more stressful activity that my own did at that age is disturbing.
but how do you change that system that is so resistant to change? how do you enable teachers to teach more effectively for each student when you put them in a room with 43 children and not enough desks? what about the ones you "excess" to different environments so that they never get comfortable with whom they work? what about the ones you lay off "because they're new" instead of looking at their ability or potential and weigh it against older teachers who are clearly in the wrong profession, and continuously assert the fact that they hate children? How does any of this make sense?
