CALIFORNIA EDUCATORS CALL FOR DUNCAN RESIGNATION

[Ed Suspicious]

7. Teachers are creative professionals who deserve the autonomy to educate kids in the way they see fit

The diversity of teaching styles and approaches to subject matter that I see in college is what we should be exposed to in high school. Seeing different teachers teach in different ways is amazing. Learning about history though my literature classes or humanities classes embeds important historical concepts into my mind in a way that no history text book ever could. Standardized education is a wrongheaded approach if you ask me. I want kids to learn a love of learning and to know how to learn as they go forward. I couldn't give much of a shit less about standard questions built to assess a common core curriculum. Teach my kids to read, write, and do some math, then teach them myriad ways to go about learning the rest so they can discover the best way they learn what is important to them and their lives. I want them to be able to apply the taught techniques of learning. Regurgitation is a waste of time.