weaverrl wrote:
I agree with you as well Jenny. I cannot begin to tell you how I felt at my first back to school meeting four years ago when our superintendent said that school was a business. Children are our product. What in the world is that supposed to mean? I have never felt like teaching school is business. I have always felt that school is just a safe haven where children come to learn.
Well, I don't know if you will laugh or cry (or both?) when you read Dicken's story, "Hard Times." But it is about thinking that children can are products. Is this person still your superintendent?
Certainly, there are "business" aspects of schooling that are very important, just as there are "business" parts of family life that we all have to pay attention to. But can you imagine calling a family itself a business?
Some days I am sure we all wish children could be a product, but to actually think a human being could be a product, and not be joking, is the height of idiocy.