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"My students don't know how to learn. They don't know how to succeed. And, it doesn't seem like they care to change any of that. " -Crystal Kirch, My biggest struggle this year.
"High school math teacher Crystal Kirch’s biggest struggle of 2012 was met with both cheers from those who could commiserate as well as jeers from those who were concerned that students were not the culprit, but rather the victims of a system that set them up for failure."
What happens when we close ourselves off from hearing a different point of view? In this post Lisa Nielsen takes a look at reactions that occurred in response to the post by Crystal Kirch. She divides the responses into two sections:
* Reactions from those frustrated by children who don't want to learn
* Reactions from those who provided the alternate perspective (that Kirch referred to as 'an "intense attack") in defense of children
By looking through the lenses of other this post is asking us to "think about and learn from that which may not be so comfortable and look at our students who don't seem to care in a new way."