It seems that we believe we ought to keep testing the bombs and the kids until they finally pass, with no regard for how mismanaged, outdated, or mismodeled the tests themselves might actually be. Perhaps it is too dangerous to think that the system is the failure and that our entire way of behaving and measuring success in students and NMD could be at fault. Our nation s insistence on pursuing a strong missile defense sets the example that we mighty Americans have the authority to subjugate the global powerless many to our domination, and that we do not value cooperation over intimidation. Doesn t work well with others. This oft-used report card commentary gives more of a statement on how we teach kids to work together rather than individually.
Students learn from many angles that the majority wins.
We explode democracy in the night skies over the heads of global citizens, demonstrating flagrant lack of concern for others opinions about how our heavens should be used. Yet it is now wonder that teachers spend little time teaching students how to get along and work together. With all the other problems in classroom management, like the violence and injustice of fifty-minute classtime constraints, there is little room for discussion. What really is at stake is the cheapening of human life. Young people are treated as a commodity, increasingly immune to compassion and also the largest target-audience for product marketing.