Melissa Crews Freeman

Wow, is all I can say after reading the seven lessons of teaching as well as, Noguera.  It is depressing and informative to read both of these.  I do believe that education is extremely political.   It is all a political statement and depends more on who is bribing who, than what is working for the students.  Who is making money at the top of the pyramid, I feel are the people who’s great grandfathers wrote this system.  I feel like they are taught the truth to how this system is working and then politically work to keep it that way.  If this was not true, then we would have had a complete education reform years and years ago.  Like the seven lesson article talks about, a complete educational reform would have been cheaper than the amount of money we have spent trying to put band aids on the system.  I know that this huge fundamental paradox exist, but how do I still become an effective teacher?  The only thing I can think of is to be just a subtle teaching the underlying truths as the system is at teaching the lies.  It will take more creative teaching methods and conversation and certainly more time, but this is the only way I can truly feel effective.