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Playing The Game of School

11/6/2013

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I had my evaluation today, and I had a chance to chat with my evaluator about how to help students who are juniors and seniors and have so much apathy that they are waiting for their 18th birthday to drop out and start their life journey.  To keep things relatively brief, we realized that we didn't get it.
As teachers, we were either good at playing the game of school or we were just plain smart.  I would be willing to bet (if I were a betting man) that > 90% of our teachers graduated high school with a GPA above 2.0, proving the first sentence to be true.  However, we always struggle to support the students who are, in our eyes, bound and determined to drop out.

We create intervention policies, programs, and steps to help them succeed.  However, it's always the successful individuals telling the unsuccessful student how he/she is going to be motivated to get out of the mess that we/they/society has created for them.  

In the meeting, we thought of something, and I have no clue if it'll work.  Our idea is to bring these students (we have identified 4, and they're all pretty straight shooters when it comes to reality) in to a meeting and come up with ways that they, not we, think we should be designing remediation in order for them to graduate as a successful and prepared human being.

I'll keep you posted.   Until then, I'm all ears on ways that struggling students feel the education system can be altered.  Don't give me research from some Harvard grad.  I want thoughts from a kid who's been there.  I don't know there.

There (noun): any variation of constantly hungry, tired, dejected, lack of home support, lack of social support, minimal success in family and social life, very little academic success, thoughts of dropping out... or worse.

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