October 23, 2015
Whose fault is it anyways?
Imagine an educational system with an active Board of Education Administration. Substitute teachers being able to thoroughly fill in when a full time teacher calls out, and keep the pace of the class flowing? Students learning units in their entirety, rather than learning one section and skipping the rest, due to incomplete curriculums? Students rankings higher scores on Standardized Test? All of these things and more can happen when we hold our cities’ BOE Administration to a higher standard. Teaching and preparing students for success takes more than just teachers. Over the summer, I was able to witness the flaws we have within our educational system as a mathematics curriculum writer. We cannot put the blame solely on the teachers or the students, we have to consider the BOE administrative staff as well. I firmly believe that we can create a system, where the curriculum is thoroughly written out, completed with updated textbooks assignments etc. So that even a substitute teacher can be able to follow the guide set up for them. We need to hold the administrative staff accountable for producing an updated, complete curriculum for its students.
Explore the MHC Social Universe >