If You Build a Better Crutch, We’ll Make a Lazier Student
Isn’t that the truth?
I was talking to a friend from my old school the other day. They had to read the article from the last post about the kid who went to DC public charter schools and then was unprepared for his freshman year at Georgetown.
Surprise!
You weren’t prepared because your teachers had to spend most of their time coddling and cajoling the way-behind, the lazy and the disruptive in your midst. (If you are poor and your mom is a drunk, that’s sad. But it is secondary. The teacher still has to deal with way-behind, lazy, and disruptive.) This takes a great deal of time and effort. In DC, public education is all about creating the appearance that the bottom is being brought up. Increasingly we see that this is a poorly executed illusion.
Here is how it works at my old school, the Columbia Heights Education Campus, where I taught U.S. Government and
