DO TEACHERS KNOW WHAT JOB ONE IS? Really?
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 22/10/2012

PLEASE TWEET THIS! "Is Anybody Sane Here?" WHAT IF THE STATISTICS ARE REAL? - THEN Few are left to determine what is Ok and isn't any longer - The NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, NIH, just held a meeting to train 250 journalists,( I didn't even know that many were left..) to ignore the statistics on increasing mental illness which indicate that a majority of adults exhibit dysfunction. I contend that ignoring statistics of such magnitude is an obvious indication of severe dysfunction and mental incapacity of some type. Take all of the kids in every town and put them into locked-down schools where every adult is instructed specifically and directly NOT TO PARENT, similarly instruct all real parents that the moment the kids are out the door, they too are similarly instructed by work and culture NOT TO PARENT... for the time that kids are in school every day entire towns across america go dark as "parent-free" towns, counties, states - Imagine! Recall the classic literature "Lord of the Flies" about stranded kids on an island developing into rowdy violent bully tribes? Sound familiar? Our children are depressed, abused, neglected, hungry, and ignored and they mature into journalists and NIH employee's and school board members, administrators, and teachers and have kids in school of their own... etc. Go to your schools and ask - No one will answer correctly when asked what their number one job is as a teacher/administrator! Madness! This is the root of our problems... face the right way and solutions will appear! We just have to look! :) Students have no internal body-part to "snap-shut-off" their "child-ness" once in classroom! Inside every Student is a Child Yet Teachers Believe SCHOOLS must be PARENT(ING)-FREE ZONES! There is no shortage of big thinking about public education in the United States. There are hundreds of foundations, think tanks, universities, corporate outreach departments and startup companies developing workable ideas for meaningful, substantive change. But there's something missing: parents and communities aren't demanding improvements system-wide. Sure, there are contentious town-hall meetings and ripples of outrage, but they're just as often focused on superficial scandals as they are on the problems that could imperil our children's future. We need a parents' movement that articulates dramatically higher expectations and ground-breaking transformations.There are lots of ideas to improve America's schools. But what if all those proposals just eke extra efficiency out of a flawed model? GOOD Magazine Education Editor Liz Dwyer February 2012 Lab with the CAA Foundation:

"No one wants the American economy to fail, but what if the point of school isn't cranking out degreed workers that will help us beat China? What if the key to transforming education relies on upending our individualistic, market-driven ideas about the purpose of school?" Dwyer imagines a community-centered school where students are treated as future citizens, not potential employees: "In this vision, schools would become hyper-local. The school community could, for example, collectively decide what neighborhood problems need solving. Students would then use their their creative and critical thinking abilities, as well as their academic skills, to tackle real-world issues like the dropout rate or homelessness. Then, when graduation day rolls around, a student wouldn't just get a piece of paper signaling that she's employable. Instead, upon completing formal schooling, 'the highest possible title in a free society is conferred upon us: citizen.'"

"Is Anybody Sane Here?" Said the Psychiatrist to the Journalists By Hilda Bastian | October 15, 2012 |  4  The journalists are 48 enthusiastic and committed participants at the National Institute of Health's 2012 Medicine in the Media course (#NIHMiM12). It's an evidence boot camp that started on Sunday night (October 14) RE: DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders due to appear later this year will likely vastly expand the many ways you can get a mental illness label. How big is the problem? Using DSM-4 criteria for mental disorders, almost half the people in the US are getting a diagnosis of a mental disorder in their lifetime -- and other countries aren't far behind. Frances fears that "the pool of normal is becoming a small puddle." Unless there are more changes, in the world of DSM-5, if a person can get out of childhood and adolescence without a mental illness label, it could be something of an achievement. People aren't changing, The new labels and widening of scope of existing labels set the scene for "epidemics" of illness. Around 250 journalists applied for the course from a range of major broadcast networks, one cable network (CNN), daily newspapers, science and women's magazines, radio and more. 

SPEAKER BROWARD COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD 2012