Comments on: For Republicans, it may not be about being conservative

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By: Arthur Lieber

Arthur Lieber — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:49:00 +0000

In reply to Stacy Mergenthal.

Stacy,
thanks so much for the comment. I think that we’re really in accord and
I’m so sorry that your 3rd grader needs to be among the current
recipients of the insensitivity and nastiness. Like you, I’m kind of
rooting for the Trump supporters, though that’s hard to say. As I said, I
think that progressives have created this problem as much as others, so
we have to take the lead in cleaning it up

By: Stacy Mergenthal

Stacy Mergenthal — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:39:00 +0000

My 3rd grader brought home a bushel of school papers today, as he does every Friday. Many of them are assignments given in class or homework that has been returned to the student. I was shocked to see that on one of his papers his teacher had put a big red ‘F’ on it. The in-class assignment was incomplete. When I asked my son about it, he burst into tears. He felt that he wasn’t given adequate time to complete the worksheet and was deeply ashamed of that ‘F’. There doesn’t seem to be any wiggle room for these kids. They are given an assignment and a set time and if they don’t finish it, they are graded accordingly. It’s so discouraging to kids. It’s a wonder they keep trying after so much negative feedback.

It is easy to make someone feel like a failure when they are given a rigid and unreasonable set of parameters to worth within. Though I personally think Trump is a ridiculous side show, in some ways I am rooting for the people supporting him. They may be disillusioned and misinformed, among other things, but they are rejecting the establishment, as liberals are with Bernie Sanders. Good for them.

That said, we definitely have work to do on the education front. Critical thinking seems to be going the way of cursive handwriting: it is not being taught, encouraged, or enhanced. Too much of school work is simply busy work that accomplishes very little in terms of actually learning something. It is simply stressful for everyone. And the feedback teachers are giving students can actually do more harm than good.