Additional Assignment #3

It hit me when he discussed how students are surrounded by distractions, brought on by a growth of culture and technology, and are then punished for being distracted. Then, students are quickly stigmatized as being ADHD. From there, there are special classes and a lot of medication. Of course children are going to be hyper, they are little kids who are being expected to sit still and quiet. Their energy can't be be kept bottled up like that and not expect them to burst every now and then. With all of that medication in their systems, they become little zombies. They don't just stop being interested in playing and talking at school. They lose all of the charm of being young. They lose their spontaneity and creativity. If the idea of education was to create empty shells in which to pour information that educators know, then job well done people. But that isn't quite what it was meant to be.
Secondly, he discussed how the educational institution functions and is constructed as a factory would. Why do students get bunched together by "manufacturing date"? Students of the same age are not always on the same wavelength intellectually as one another. When it became overly apparent that students of the same class are not on the same page, why was the only option to make students hold up their learning while the others catchup? Then again, there is the unspoken second option of pushing students along. Yeah, we don't like to talk about it, but we all know it is the skeleton in the closets of many. In this underground option, either expectations are lowered for everyone  to meet a level obtainable to those falling behind or there is a straight up "cannot fail this student" ultimatum stapled to these students. But students aren't blind to the fact that there are people getting grades for nonexistent work or undeserving work.  And do you think students respond to this with awe? Of course not! They steadily get comfortable with doing less and less and expecting more and more for their work (or lack there of). Can you blame the students? In the long run, no. The educational institution brought this on itself.
Students are not perfect. (Don't fool yourself; teachers aren't either.) They might get distracted or might not get the material the first time. But don't respond with radical moves. As an educator, suck it up and work with your students. If they don't meet standards, don't just ignore it. There is most likely a reason that material is in the curriculum other than to serve as a filler. Don't be scared to hold a student back. You aren't doing them any favors by passing them along. We don't shy away from letting students skip grades when they are considered to be at a more advanced level. So, it is obvious that we recognize that students of the same class aren't always on the same intellectual level. If you are a teacher, teach your students. It is a simple idea that would save everyone a lot of fustration in the long run.