Looking in a Rear View Mirror To Go Forward....

As I sit and reflect on where I have been in my ten years of education, I can't believe how time has flown by. I have seen my students grow up, graduate from college, become successful, and start families of their own. The field of education has changed dramatically, I can't say that I am pleased with everything that has evolved in the field of education, but I will continue to work and fight for a better educational system for my children and your children.

I remember when I first started teaching teachers just taught for the fun of teaching and believing that you could teach because you were really going to make a difference in a child's life. As you taught you could infuse some life lessons into your lessons so that you could teach a holistic curriculum. Those were the good ole days! The era of education now, has drastically changed. TEST! TEST! TEST! Don't get me wrong, it is good to evaluate and determine where a student is while they are in school. I truly believe that the amount of test that the students have to take are a bit overkill. So, you have a system where students have lost their love for learning and teachers have lost their love for teaching, and you have a perpetual system that just goes in circles with no end.

I do believe there is hope for education though. I think that eventually we will get this testing thing right and only require one test for students to graduate from high school. I hope that it's the ACT or SAT, which is used for admittance into college, so why not use it as the exit exam for students to get out of high school. Where does this leave me? Still fighting for equality in education for students that look like me. I have chased money, and it did not bring the fulfillment that I thought it would. I am now on a mission to try and level the playing field of the minority and majority in education. I have renewed passion to see this generation of students have all the rights and privileges that the next student has. Hey, there may also be a charter school in the making in the near further. Only God knows.