SXSW Ed. Video Reaction
So wow- that video was something and everything at the same time. The speaker was very much in your face, but not in a bad way. It was in a way where he is holding everyone of us to see the truth and to recognize our part in it. His passion was so evident and it honestly made the video ten times better.
When actually focusing on the content of what he was saying, all I kept thinking was how brave he has to take such a public stand and say the things he did. He called out every single person up to the president and talked about the one thing no one seems to take kindly to- being told they are part of the problem.
One of the things I liked best about his talk was that he didn't just blame the teachers for failing certain kids, but instead he listed and showed how everyone plays a role in it. As a society, we naturally fall in suit with what others want or are doing, but that is certainly not something we can continue to do when it comes to how we educate the youth, specifically the youth you find in inner city and minority communities. We just adjust our beliefs or hush our mouths when policies and standards are passed that effect our students that we may not agree with. Most of those standards are imposing such culture within the school that it is stripping the individual cultures of the students. We don't take into account students traumas and emotions outside of school content and in that we are failing our students at what the job of schools is- ready students for the future. In a way, we force kids to go to school, but we aren't giving them the option of an individualized education. It seems to be that if the student doesn't fit the mold in every way, they are wrong and need to be changed. Instead of embracing and intertwining, we are rejecting and stripping.
The name of his talk "we got it from here, thanks for your service" really embodies how society must be to do ALL of our students good. We must not allow policy makers to run the next generations lives and in essence strip everything that makes them unique. We as a society need to step up and take control so that the people of our future (the students) know that it is okay to be unique and that they have something to bring to the table other than what is pushed on them during school.
When actually focusing on the content of what he was saying, all I kept thinking was how brave he has to take such a public stand and say the things he did. He called out every single person up to the president and talked about the one thing no one seems to take kindly to- being told they are part of the problem.
One of the things I liked best about his talk was that he didn't just blame the teachers for failing certain kids, but instead he listed and showed how everyone plays a role in it. As a society, we naturally fall in suit with what others want or are doing, but that is certainly not something we can continue to do when it comes to how we educate the youth, specifically the youth you find in inner city and minority communities. We just adjust our beliefs or hush our mouths when policies and standards are passed that effect our students that we may not agree with. Most of those standards are imposing such culture within the school that it is stripping the individual cultures of the students. We don't take into account students traumas and emotions outside of school content and in that we are failing our students at what the job of schools is- ready students for the future. In a way, we force kids to go to school, but we aren't giving them the option of an individualized education. It seems to be that if the student doesn't fit the mold in every way, they are wrong and need to be changed. Instead of embracing and intertwining, we are rejecting and stripping.
The name of his talk "we got it from here, thanks for your service" really embodies how society must be to do ALL of our students good. We must not allow policy makers to run the next generations lives and in essence strip everything that makes them unique. We as a society need to step up and take control so that the people of our future (the students) know that it is okay to be unique and that they have something to bring to the table other than what is pushed on them during school.
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