From The Teacher Shepherd: Stop Lying To Children
Title: Stop Lying To Children Author: Kate Bowers Date: May 30, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “Mental health is the popular go-to for explaining why children are anxious, depressed, suicidal and violent. It’s a broad phrase that ignores contributing factors, such as lying. Yes, lying. There is a group of adults lying to children. It persists in telling children these five […]
From The Teacher Shepherd: Oatmeal Before School
Title: Oatmeal Before School Author: Kate Bowers Date: April 26, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “I’ve eaten plenty of bowls of oatmeal in my time here on Earth. I didn’t always like oatmeal, though. That changed with my mom’s bright idea one morning before school. During my school years, my parents were always home in the morning. Mom would be hustling […]
From The Teacher Shepherd: Students. Parents. Teachers.
Title: Students. Parents. Teachers. Author: Kate Bowers Date: March 7, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “Take one 5-year-old. Drop them at a building called “public school” with some strangers and pick them up later. As John Taylor Gatto, a now deceased award-winning New York City teacher once said, “Madness! This is madness!” And that was what he was saying about twenty […]
From The Teacher Shepherd: What’s Happened To Public Education?
Title: What’s Happened To Public Education? Author: Kate Bowers Date: February 25, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “Take one 5-year-old. Drop them at a building called “public school” with some strangers and pick them up later. As John Taylor Gatto, a now deceased award-winning New York City teacher once said, “Madness! This is madness!” And that was what he was saying […]
From The Teacher Shepherd: Censorship Or Responsibility?
Title: Censorship Or Responsibility? Author: Kate Bowers Date: January 28, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “When you don’t allow your five-year-old to read about s*x, is it censorship? When you don’t allow your ten-year-old to look at p*rn, is it censorship? Is barring your fourteen-year-old from reading explicit, steamy romances censorship? After all, you’re the parent. Aren’t you supposed to ban […]
From The Teacher Shepherd: Are Unions Harming Teachers?
Title: Are Unions Harming Teachers? Author: Kate Bowers Date: January 15, 2022 Source: Publicly Schooled “Teachers unions insist they are a necessary part of a teacher’s career. A teacher paying nine hundred dollars per year in union dues over twenty years will have paid $18,000. Presumably this is for collective bargaining, legal protection and a “voice” in education policy. But […]