Tuesday, September 8, 2009
How Censored Should Schools Be?
In our American Studies class today, we were discussing and analyzing Obama's adress to the 'Students of America' today. You can find the President's prepared speech here. But that is not what I'm going to talk about today. While discussing this issue we touched on how in the Wheaton School District 200--where Mr. Bolos' students go to school-- in order to show a video clip in class a teacher must send it to the Department Chair who then sends it up the food chain to the Principal, then Superintendent, then the School Board. I thought to myself, ' Is this really necessary?' Wouldn't it be more effective and make more sense to have a group of teachers look at the clip and determine if it is appropriate and supplemental to the curriculum? I think it would be better to have a group of teachers who actually care and know about the material presented in class to analyze and determine if a type of media is OK to use in a class. Where are our schools headed now? How should we determine what is appropriate and what we should show in school?
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Nice job here, Tommy, pursuing a class topic a little further. It'd be nice to quote from the sources you cite to frame the discussion more clearly. Also, you might explore the "top down" administrative style in Wheaton and discuss its implications beyond this controversy.
ReplyDeleteNice job on the whole with your blog. You certainly have been active here and in your outside blog.