WHY I TEACH TRUTH!
I do not teach with some idea that a movie like Coach Carter is going to be made about me or that I am going to be making a huge impact in the world.
The surprise about teaching is you do make an impact in the world if you are a teacher whether that is your goal or not and that’s the trade-off for the low salaries, and burdensome responsibility of co-parenting hundreds or even thousands of kids is that teaching is inherently powerful because it’s personal.
When I teach I think to myself, what was missing in school when I was a kid and largely the answer is the TRUTH.
I am a black female and 70% of my teachers where white males. White males probably were not the best people to be teaching me about the realities of my life.
However, I think the real problem with most schools is they are not really designed to teach you about life and it keeps you connected with a misinformed and biased past more than an accurate present or the possibilities of the future, which I think is dangerously problematic because it creates outdated minds that are out of touch with reality.
I try my best not to lore my students into a false bubble of what life is just because they are stuck in a cage until they are 18 for 8 hours a day with me. I know one day my students are going to be out of these walls and clueless.
A lot of parents don’t teach them anything either because they think it’s the teachers’ job to teach them.
I fight for my students to learn the truth.
I answer their uncomfortable questions about sexuality, racism, and poverty, I refuse to teach that there are 9 planets from old textbooks.
Never in my adult life has anyone ever asked me what an Obtuse Triangle is or if I know what onomatopoeia means.
My education was never geared towards me being a successful adult.
It was geared towards standardized tests that did not matter, so I could be a factory worker and I think that was a really misleading waste of my time and so I try not to steal my student’s time the way mine was stolen and I try to teach them things that might be useful like how to take a deep breath when someone who is wrong insist they are right.
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Fay Vietmeier
3年前 #4
Lyon Brave We live in a different world. In prior generations, I think parenting was more of a priority. The role of "parent" carried much responsibility. Not that that has changed but the pace of of the world has accelerated People are "busy" ... parents are very distracted. Often their angst falls on their children. One of the grains of sand in: "More is caught than taught." Blessed is the child who has a focused, loving teaching parent.
Lyon Brave
3年前 #3
There are parents who shrug off their own teaching responsibility and that is a big problem.
Fay Vietmeier
3年前 #2
Fay Vietmeier
3年前 #1