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Soft Words, Fluffy Words....ah, Sweet Nothings.
Virginia Beach public schools are discussing a new initiative called Compass to 2020, aka the Strategic Framework. Seems to me it’s mush on steroids.
One of the many “strategies" is this: “Develop a plan to systematically integrate developmentally appropriate social emotional learning strategies into the curriculum to promote the development of interpersonal skills, responsible decision-making and resilience.”
So the strategy is to develop a plan. Why not a plan to develop a strategy? In any case, why does this take until 2020?
Anyway, if you are interested in the kind of language that our Education Establishment is now moving toward – grandiose, vague, scattered, designed to inform almost no one about anything in particular— this is an excellent example.
(My personal suspicion is that the administrators have already figured out what they want to do. The task now is to dazzle the public into submission with four years of MEGO therapy.)
Here is a short article about this new initiative:
http://www.examiner.com/article/virginia-beach-public-schools-annou...
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Comment by Bruce Deitrick Price on November 12, 2014 at 3:53pm
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I just stumbled into a website created by one of our arch-educators at Harvard. It makes even clearer to me that what this superintendent is doing in Virginia Beach is part of a massive separation-from-reality campaign. You won't hear any mention of academic subjects, such as biology, Latin, physics, history, French, or whatever. What you'll hear instead is a long list of pseudo-subjects, such as 21st-century skills, cooperation, responsible decision-making, and my new favorite, resilience. These are not things that schools teach specifically, you get them as you go along. That's the way it always was. But now the schools won't do anything else but pretend to teach these pretend-subjects.....So if you want to stop this trend, just ask these people for an example of something factual that they actually hope to teach. They will be stunned. Factual?
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