The Boy In The Red Shoes...

Jeff Bliss became a hero the second he stood up to his high school teacher, when he felt he wasn’t being properly taught in class and gets kicked out for doing so.  There need to be more kids like Jeff Bliss, kids that are not afraid to stand up for what they believe is right, to stand against anyone who they believe is not doing right.  Bliss states that, “I want to see a teacher stand up and interact with the students, get involved, discuss, talk, question and get deep into the subject.”  Teachers need to be more involved when they teach. Teachers complain that when students fail and the first person they blame is the student, they do not take a step back and ask themselves what am I doing wrong as a teacher?  Most teachers think a student fails because they do not care about the class or their grade but sometimes they are just afraid to ask for help or do not want to get kicked out of class for standing up to an authority figure.  Public education system makes me really angry because most teachers just do not care about the students or their teaching just stinks.  We as kids deserve a great education whether you go to public or private school.  A commenter by the screen name of ScreenMonkeyMan commented, “public school is terrible my senior year of history class they were teaching about Elvis.  They also took down all maps and stopped geography class.”  How can you expect kids to be successful and do well in school if you are teaching about Elvis in a history class?  I know that Elvis’s music did play a role in history and was influential and what not, but in my US history class my Jr year we had an entire lecture on Elvis too.  It just seems silly to me that we cannot pass state standardized tests but we have time to learn for a whole class period about Elvis.

               Another thing I found interesting and that stood out to me is when Jeff Bliss went on his rampage he says that, “If you would just get up and teach instead of handing them a packet.  There are kids in here that don’t learn like that, they need to learn face to face. You want kids to come into your class; you want them to get excited?  You gotta make them excited! You want a kid to change and start doing better you gotta touch his freaking heart.  Can’t expect a kid to change if all you do is tell him.”  It just reminded me a lot of Dunken Andrade. Dunken Andare talks about schools and public education how the way teachers teach will leave an everlasting impression on kids.  And how education is the most important possession we have at a young age.