Subject: Deep Roots

Posted by Ed Johnson on 12/27/2010
In Reply To:Deep Roots Posted by Bill Rathborne on 12/27/2010

Message:

“Between poverty and negative/unsupportive home environments, teachers and the education system are constantly trying to undo the damage done by the student's return to those negative environments every day from K-through12.”

That’s exactly why the public K-12 system itself is or must become highly capable of being society’s and democracy's high-leverage point. Yet, public K-12 is being decimated, blaming teachers and students, those at the bottom. Yet, as W. Edwards Deming pointed out, the problem is the prevailing style of management at the top.

Nice organic metaphor: Elephant between teacher and student. Thanks, Bill. Now, who put the elephant there? How might the elephant be dismantled or otherwise removed? What tactical leverage-points are there?

Ed Johnson

Follow Ups:

Deep Roots - Chad Green 12/28/2010 
Deep Roots - Jack Harich 12/28/2010
Deep Roots - Pedro D. Almaguer Prado 12/27/2010 
Deep Roots - Kathy Minardi 12/28/2010
Deep Roots - Kathy Arizmendi 12/28/2010
Deep Roots - Bill Rathborne 12/28/2010