I usually RANT and RAVE in my blogs. There is something about purposely undereducating children that bothers me. . . especially when those children are traditionally underserved populations. But today, I took a deep breath. My rants have fallen on deaf ears. They have been called "just another opinion of another crazy man." So, I had to stop and think if what I was doing mattered to anyone, what it important. That was when I really looked at my own children being undereducated in school. I realized the work their mother and I put in when the children came home. We made them college ready, gifted, or whatever you want to call it. However, all of that happened after school, not during. As an educator, I differentiate instruction for my children, but what about all of the parents who are unable to do so. So, yes, it does matter.
I had to make myself three promises:
1. Blog more often
2. Make it relative to what parents are experiencing as their children come home from the classroom, and
3. Bring the plight of educating underserved students and students of color to the forefront of our collective consciousness. Their should be no ARRA funding until we address inequities that currently exist in our public education system.
With that being said, I welcome your comments. I would really like to hear from public school teachers whose districts are using ARRA funds in the matter that they were intended and creating educational systems to make all students successful.
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