Cartoons: The Age-graded School
In my restless search for humor about school reforms as they affect students, teachers, parents, and the nation, I have posted cartoons on testing, technology and children, charters, accountability, and the inescapable blame that accompanies reform over the past five months. I have discovered the following:
*Humor is in the head of the beholder.
*Cartoonists’ portrayal of schools relies heavily upon traditional ideas of what schools and classrooms are like.
*Caricatures, for that is what cartoons are, both tickle and pinch viewers in their revealing truths of what happens
