#student concerns

[tdwf-articles]

[exposingstudentoppression]

Lester Deanes and OML are the best!

2016 alum, if you ever have a problem on campus, do have a person or place you can go to get it resolved or advocate for you?

[thestudentcounsellor]

"You're not a young Counsellor, I'm not a middle aged Counsellor... You are a Counsellor"

My Amazing Counselling Tutor

[icymckenna37]

Random Funny Moment

So today in a student council meeting are president asked us if we had any important issues around the school we would like to bing up and one girl goes "I would like to discuss that all of the sanitary product machines don't take the quarter or give us nothing in return" the president responded back by telling us about how she talked to out principle and she informed her that last year a girl went around stealing all of the money and tapons out of the machine so we no longer have them. Then all the girls just kind of had this expression on their face of like what the hell are we supposed to do now. So our teacher told us that now when we need something all teachers will have a box and you just have to tell someone. So them this girl just points out the amazing true fact of how it's "not" going to be awkward going to ask your male teacher for a tampon and our entire student council just sat there laughing for a good 2 minutes. It was a lot funnier than it sounds I promise you

[mindinpsychology-blog]

Trapped Teaching Badly: An Escape.

Teachers fight to motivate their students, to get them to learn willingly, to persist on difficult problems and to learn from their mistakes. They struggle and burn out because their students seem to be lost in a perpetual state of torpor, with only obsequious pedants leaching motivation from the teets of authority appearing different. The problem of motivation, however, is not motivation--it is the teaching. The motivation was there: teaching mollifies it.

Teachers set deadlines, teach text and rush through topics to make sure the students have covered everything required by the convention of the individual schools that are manipulated by the state--all shaped by the overal context of anachronistic  paragons.  I feel like I'm downing just thinking about it.

Teachers are trapped in a bad system, and they are damaging students and themselves because of it. So how do they escape the threat of the obdurate, heavy system that gently rocks over their head, with the subtle promise that each deviation from norm  could result in opprobrium and financial sanctions? The answer is that they sneak in freedom--they excite...[Rest of article found here]