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Sunday, June 16, 2013

What do education advocates do on their day off? | Reclaim Reform

What do education advocates do on their day off? | Reclaim Reform:

What do education advocates do on their day off?

What do education advocates do on their day off?

SisyphusThe task given Sisyphus by the ancient Greek gods of eternally pushing a massive rock up a hill to have it roll down again and again is precisely what we do. It is what we are supposed to do as true education reformers. It is a pure and good task and is not what it appears to be to most outsiders.
(Please note that we are not talking about corporate education reformers who, in spite of what their highly paid proselytizers claim, are experimenting with and abusing our children for their own personal profit.)
Teachers and other educators have never had the same job or task for more than a day.
The needs of children change from child to child and class to class. What is done to meet those needs continually shifts as society and life advance and decline. Whenever a decline occurs within a student or a