A Superintendent's Reflection: Pandemic...Crisis or Opportunity?
I woke up this morning feeling particularly thankful and excited for the future. I don't want to come out and say that I'm happy for the COVID-19 mess...but I am excited for the opportunity it creates. This is year 29 for me in education and I've spent my whole career wondering how we got to our current space in education. The over emphasis on standardized testing as the only measure of what kids know and can do. The "one sized fits most" approach to schooling where we force kids to sit in classes that look the same, with instruction that looks the same, with topics that look the same, without ever once asking our kids what they are passionate about or interested in. We've quit working with parents as partners. Parents are either too busy for us or we're too busy for them...but in any case we don't work together for the good of their children. We judge schools based on how many days kids attend school, with their butts in seats....as oppose