Miss Education / An Educator

She was intent on getting up to that microphone. It didn't take her very long to muster up the courage. She proudly announces to the audience, "I'm an educator. I'm Miss Education."

A retelling of the same story, August 21, 2009
She wants desperately to get to the microphone. She musters up the courage and struts to the front of the room. With a big wide smile she introduces herself, "Hello, I'm Miss Education." She proudly announces to the group, "I'm an educator."


Conversations with fellow librarian
From :  dahearn
Sent :  Mon December 22, 2014 4:38 PM
To:  Ann
you have an opportunity to change the way these children are being treated.
Powerful... I have to remember that with Sean. He was told all bs negative labels,
and he's actually a fast reader, and becoming well informed on his own, not through
boces, what a warehouse that was, meanwhile the Special Ed heads make a fortune
doing nothing but labeling.
Sounds like you're in the right place.
debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: anniegii
To: dahearn
Sent: Mon, Dec 22, 2014 11:58 am


Deb,

Last night I mentioned how appropriate that the reading about breaking spirit of young horse !!!  First reading . . Then it mention something about rolling    In a field of clover (regaining that joy). Fortunately, we talked about joy . . Not about breaking spirit . . crushing . .

I am reading a book sent to me by author's daughter (this horse is part of her childhood)

Her father originally an accountant by profession . .

he was like horse whisperer . .

I was (we've lost touch)  friends with the man's grandaughter . . They're all horse people

. . Just before the meeting I had read about the mishandling and the cruelty to this young horse. His actions (due to fear and a painful wound on his side) were misunderstood as defiance.  A heavy handed trainer was set on breaking this young horse's spirit . . i was at the point where the horse was put up for auction  . .

Sooooo . . Just now I read this :

" . . . But I figure young horses are just like young people. Sometimes everything seems to go wrong in spite of their good intentions.  Then everyone expects the worst and invariably that's what they get.  Once in a while, fate has the right person come along, and with proper encouragement and understanding, he helps the youngster turn things around . . "

This is just how I feel with the kids at school !!  They get labelled and then they have to live up to their reputations . . Like self prophecy

Think the worst and you'll get the worst ???

They are certainly not helping these kids to become productive citizens . . These adults are actually contributing to the menace !!!!

Always scolding and threatening !!  I catch myself at the same type of coercion !!

Suspecting the worst . . I have a few examples to tell you !!!

I want to command not demand !!

They are like popcorn popping all over the kitchen when not restrained





: )




DEWEY CLASSIFICATION
370.1

SUBJECTS
Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
Public schools -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Education -- Philosophy.
Critical pedagogy.
-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Despotism.
Due process of law -- United States.
Abuse of administrative power.



READING
Ed school follies : the miseducation of America's teachers / Rita Kramer.
The conspiracy of ignorance : the failure of American public schools / Martin L. Gross.
Left back : a century of failed school reforms / Diane Ravitch.
Chomsky on miseducation / Noam Chomsky.
Miseducation : preschoolers at risk / David Elkind.


OTHER BOOKS ON THE MISUSE OF POWER
Joseph McCarthy : the misuse of political power / by Daniel Cohen.
A biography of the Wisconsin Senator whose questionable methods as a "Communist witch-hunter" brought him fame in the decade after World War II and led to his eventual censure by the United States Senate.

Abuse of power : the new Nixon tapes / edited with an introduction and commentary by Stanley I. Kutler.

Corporate corruption : the abuse of power / Marshall B. Clinard.

Vows of silence : the abuse of power in the papacy of John Paul II / Jason Berry and Gerald Renner.

The haves and the have nots : the abuse of power and privilege in the workplace-- and how to control it / Harvey A. Hornstein. From Product description at www.amazon.com: Hornstein outlines a systematic, honest blueprint for rooting out executive misbehavior (the pernicious culture of executive privilege, the psychology of management misbehavior) and enhancing employee identification with the organization. And, in so doing, he clears the way for addressing virtually every business challenge more effectively, from raising productivity to managing change.

Inside Congress : the shocking scandals, corruption, and abuse of power behind the scenes on Capitol Hill / Ronald Kessler.

The Pena files : one man's war against federal corruption and the abuse of power / Octavio G. Pena with Bruce C. McKenna and Dary Matera.

Thumpin' it : the use and abuse of the Bible in today's presidential politics / Jacques Berlinerblau.

Big Blue : IBM's use and abuse of power / Richard Thomas DeLamarter.

To harass our people : the IRS and government abuse of power / by George Hansen.

Corpocracy : how CEOs and the business roundtable hijacked the world's greatest wealth machine--and how to get it back / Robert A.G. Monks. Contents: An audience with the emperor -- Economics ascendant -- The Godfather -- The business roundtable -- Inside the corpocracy -- House take -- Efficiencies "R" us -- Return of the blob -- The great and the good -- Still, I dare to dream. Summary: Examines how the abuse of power by large corporations has had a harmful effect on the American economy, political process, and environment, and advocates shareholder activism as a means of gaining more control over corporate behavior.

Arbitrary justice : the power of the American prosecutor / Angela J. Davis.

Nero : destroyer of Rome / Julian Morgan.

Patterns of tyranny / Maurice Latey.






ESSENTIAL READING
You and your aging parents : guide to legal, financial, and health care issues / The American Bar Association.



DVD
Witch hunt [videorecording] / The G-Machine, Inc., in association with New Films International with MSNBC Films and KTF Films present a film by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy ; produced and directed by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy.
Summary: Documents the injustice in the legal system of a small town in Bakersfield, California, and shows what happens when power is allowed to exist when civil rights are jeopardized. Here the district attorney has been in office for more than 25 years and has convicted dozens of innocent working-class people, sending some of them to prison for decades before they were exonerated.

Doubt [videorecording] / Miramax Films ; Scott Rudin Productions ; produced by Scott Rudin, Mark Roybal ; screenplay by John Patrick Shanley ; directed by John Patrick Shanley. Summary: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without any proof, besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn. This threatens to tear apart the community with it's irrevocable consequence.



FICTION
Smoke screen / Sandra Brown. Summary: Friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power.

The chocolate war / Robert Cormier.

FURTHER READING
Original self : living with paradox and authenticity / Thomas Moore illustrated [i.e. woodcuts] by Joan Hanley.