Feedback so far!

Thanks for commenting on the Blog for those of you who did! Definitely excited to start looking around at everyone else's blogs!

In regards to the comment about- what is in the best interest of the students?
I never really thought about, what I see as most important for students as not being important. (that sounds really self-centered and I don't mean for it to but I guess I never really thought about it from this angle) Is this partially maybe why we have a public and a private system of education? Public is more the basics, where as private is maybe more so to entitle them to privilege of what school them came from. Honestly, I don't have a lot of knowledge on what a private school is like, I never attended one. I am just going off horrible shows (which I love) on TV such as Gossip Girl and others like it. So maybe I should not have an opinion at all. It isn't informed so perhaps I should maybe keep it to myself until I have done some research.

In regards to Eric, (thanks for commenting!!!) I did start ranting and raving. In school I always saw the older teachers as ones who had the issues with the government and all these "social issues" . In looking back maybe they were just more aware of what was going on, they knew how the game was played... If Sociology of Education is being banished from everywhere than it makes sense that other people(teachers) wouldn't necessarily know of the issues coming out of university. I literally chalked up their "gripes" about the education system to them just reminiscing about the good ole days! or they were getting close to retirement... now I have become that (or maybe are becoming that).

In discussions with my dad this weekend, he just kept repeating - if all the teachers band together they can make such changes... (he is really against this Carbon Dioxide into the ground thing that the government is doing... they are giving 2 billion for that I believe (not for sure!!!) ) Quite frankly when I heard that my jaw dropped! are you kidding me?!?! we are losing money and the government is putting money towards this?.. it isn't even completely researched yet (from what I have been told!) I will be doing a bit of research on this a little later because I want to make sure his facts are correct... but either way, if they are putting such great amounts of money towards this maybe we don't need our education to be cut!?!?!

On a positive note, I was home this weekend and it just made me more and more excited to become a teacher and start working with kids all the time!!! I hope you all still feel excited to get out into the "real world" and I use that term loosely (since I think most of us already are)!!!

:) Brandie :)