The Parents' Views of Education

I was searching for another blog to look at involving education using Google Blog Search and came across a blog that is used for parents, teachers, and community members to talk about certain education issues. Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing is a very interesting perspective to view. Laurie Rogers writes all about topics, involving education, that adults of the community would care about. In her most recent entry, Education Flux is a Barrier to Truth, she talks about how the schools' curriculum is not up to par with what she thinks it should be. She even makes a good analogy using the episode of I Love Lucy when Lucy and Ethel work in the chocolate factory. At first it's easy to get the chocolates into the wrappers but then the belt starts moving too fast and in a panic, they stuff the chocolates into their mouths. Rogers relates this scene to the children in the public schools of America. She says that they haven't been properly wrapped (or not taught enough information) and have been sent down the conveyor belt of life too fast with the administration panic to pick up the pieces.

This analogy is actually really accurate. In this day and age, children are being forced to learn things too quickly just so they can pass standardized tests and are being pushed onto the conveyor belt of adulthood too soon and without the proper preparations, or "wrappers". Even thought Rogers writes for the adults of her community, this blog really interests me and I find that she has a lot of interesting and insightful things to say about the way education should be.