School: It's Way More Boring Than When You Were There

We've had a decade of training teachers to follow the rules to teach and even read out the manual for both math and reading/la­nguage arts. In poor urban districts, the curriculum is so mandated that there are administra­tors that closely monitor the teachers to the point that they make sure that each teacher reads a particular page from the manual on a particular day. For this reason, it should be no surprise to anyone that school is boring; that the kids find it uninterest­ing; and that they aren't motivated to either to learn or even go to school. The curriculum is completely meaningles­s to their lives and to their futures. The question is what is going to happen when all these kids who have had to endure this curriculum make it to the workplace, will they be able to innovate, create, and compete in our increasing­ly globalized world/mark­etplace?
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