chapter 15 Devon Bautista

After finishing up the Spring book a few things still stand out. The book touches on many issues, and gives insight into the causes behind modern problems, but the one thing I wondered about throughout was the lack of leadership and accountability in the system itself. I feel like every level of the education system is continually being changed. Parents blame teachers, teachers blame parents, principals, superintendents, and then even the upper echelon members of the board of education get involved. Add in politics and different reforms and the whole entity of education itself becomes a mess. It is because of this jumbled around control and accountability that I am not the least bit surprised about the overall “failure” of the modern system. I find myself wondering if a less bureaucratic and more centrally controlled system could be more manageable. I am not in favor of this method personally, but I couldn’t help but thinking of it as a plausible solution. Another question I had in regards to the Spring book wrap up is, after having heard so many stories for the causes of modern problems what does the class think could be the best fix to implement, would you go Kozol’s route and immediately enact more funding to education, or would you begin with curriculum changes.