Fixing Education

Fact #13: The student who cares the least often receives the most attention.

Fact #12: Many students fail because adults refuse to let them experience failure.

Fact #11: The safest and most effective classrooms are often the ones where expectations are the clearest.

Fact #10: Schools cannot control what happens during the other 75% of a child’s waking hours, yet they’re often judged as if they can.

Fact #9: Many schools purchase expensive educational software that ends up being used by only a fraction of students.

Fact #8: Starting in the mid-2000s, hundreds of thousands of talented teachers left the profession, yet many are still surprised by the current state of public schools.

Fact #7: Most school administrators create more work than they eliminate.

Fact #6: Social media is raising the current generation of students to be addicted to validation.

Fact #5: Cell phones have done more to hurt classroom attention than any curriculum change.

It’s Fact Week Fact #4: Parents have more influence on a child’s education than any curriculum ever will.

It’s Fact Week Fact #3: Many parents believe schools primarily teach academics. In reality, schools are increasingly REQUIRED to provide meals, counseling, mental health services, behavior intervention, transportation, healthcare referrals, and much more.

It’s Fact Week Fact #2: A classroom can have students performing 5+ grade levels apart and 1 teacher is expected to teach them all simultaneously.

It’s Fact Week Fact #1: Millions of students graduate from high school each year without ever taking a course in taxes, investing, or mortgages. Should schools be teaching these subjects?

This is the life!

No more metal bottles for this Kentucky school district. This is what schools do when they do not have actual consequences for the vast majority of misbehaviors.

It’s simple: Students who become violent should be removed from the classroom and continue their education remotely. Not every student can succeed in a traditional school environment, and every other student and teacher deserves a safe place to learn.

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As a teacher in a district of 10,000+ students… • I rarely see my superintendent. • I rarely see central office educators working before 8:00 a.m. or after 3:00 p.m. It’s hard to lead what you rarely see.

During a 6th-grade orientation icebreaker: Teacher: “Raise your right hand.” • 30% raised their left hand. • 30% looked around before deciding. • 40% raised their right hand. How did we get here?

Students remember more when they write it down on paper. Not type it. Not screenshot it. Write it! The act of writing slows students down, adds tactile feedback, and helps lock it into memory.