I don't work well with others, and a leadership role is something I've always wanted to try; Abraham Lincoln is probably my greatest inspirations, and I've read all his work, and though I will never be the president of the United States, I would run my school with Lincoln's influence. Yes, I would like to be a principal or a superintendent.
I would like to be a principal because it is a position that demands a person love the education system and his or her role as a teacher and leader, because as we learned from the textbook, principals are a lateral move with double the work and the same pay.
The superintendent position interests me mostly because I would be up against the school board, as we learned that superintendents are always in conflict with the school board. I like to argue, and I never feel outnumbered. Or in other words, I like a challenge.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Predict what will have changed about today's schools by the year 2020.
This blog reflection is assigned with chapter 10, which concerns the struggle for educational opportunities and educational equality, so this forecast will concentrate on the issues of race and equality in our schools:
By the end of chapter 10 in Teachers Who Can, Teach it seems that students are slowly starting to segregate themselves, aligning with people of the same race and culture. This is quite a shock since this is what the civil rights movement was fighting against all along.
I saw a special on HBO about two or three years ago about a high school in Georgia that was going to have its first racially integrate prom for the first time. This wasn't a flashback, this was high school that still practiced segregation in after school functions in the 2000s, our present time. There were no protests or attempts to end this by students. In fact, most of them didn't even care. They didn't care because so long as they were getting the same education, segregated proms could have their place. But after years of it, there was finally going to be a fully integrated prom. To combat this, parents of white children pulled their resources together to rent a venue for their only white children and their only white dates. The problem was that at this parent facilitated prom, two fights broke out, and a parent attacked a student, while at the integrated prom everything went smoothly.
When I think about the future, I see students for the most part getting along. At the same time, I see resegregation occurring. I also see racial barriers being torn down as teachers become more fed up with being unable to address certain issues and lay truths out on the table. I see a decline in teachers trying to teach kids of abstaining from sex, and merely teaching them how to practice safe sex. I see more open views on religion.
By the end of chapter 10 in Teachers Who Can, Teach it seems that students are slowly starting to segregate themselves, aligning with people of the same race and culture. This is quite a shock since this is what the civil rights movement was fighting against all along.
I saw a special on HBO about two or three years ago about a high school in Georgia that was going to have its first racially integrate prom for the first time. This wasn't a flashback, this was high school that still practiced segregation in after school functions in the 2000s, our present time. There were no protests or attempts to end this by students. In fact, most of them didn't even care. They didn't care because so long as they were getting the same education, segregated proms could have their place. But after years of it, there was finally going to be a fully integrated prom. To combat this, parents of white children pulled their resources together to rent a venue for their only white children and their only white dates. The problem was that at this parent facilitated prom, two fights broke out, and a parent attacked a student, while at the integrated prom everything went smoothly.
When I think about the future, I see students for the most part getting along. At the same time, I see resegregation occurring. I also see racial barriers being torn down as teachers become more fed up with being unable to address certain issues and lay truths out on the table. I see a decline in teachers trying to teach kids of abstaining from sex, and merely teaching them how to practice safe sex. I see more open views on religion.
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