Open the windows... It's time to vent.

Okay, so I got an e-mail this morning from my teacher, telling me that we need to take down a video that I worked EXTREMELY hard on off of our website, and stop showing it to people because it is offending the regular classroom teachers at my school. I'm not mad at my teacher, or the admins that told me to do it... but the teachers that (and I quote) "be hatin on us".

The program I am in right now is considered to be a technology academy, it was started by my district at the middle school level to test this theory of Small Learning Communities, Project Based Assessments, and Technology in Everyday Life.

So, they started it for incoming 7th graders, they looked at WASL scores, Test scores and other things... and they were considerablly high. They said "Okay let's keep this going" and opened it for 8th graders... Two levels of this program were getting amazing WASL scores and test scores. So the second semester of the second year of the program... they used the mother school that hosted this program... and gave every student a laptop, and transformed the school into a larger version of the program; guess what?! IT WORKED!

So they said "well, if it works here... then it must work everywhere" so now, in 2009 every 7th grader has a laptop and they're demonstrating it... and even though I do not agree with it... It's still the implementation that the District believed in our program... so they used it!

I've said it in past blogs... but I'll reitterate. The classroom enviroment is changing. Teachers don't sit up in front and just sit there... Students teach themselves many new things every day.

So back to what I was venting about in the first place.

The person who (I have no idea, nor do I care) complained about this video had no right to complain to the school district administrators. Most of the reason why I am mad at them is becuase they had to go out of their way to complain about it. The Admins and my teachers only complied with what they had to for their jobs.

I dont know what makes them think that we think we are elitists. I mean, we were test subjects that passed the test.

I really am going to miss that video; I put bytes of my blood, sweat, and tears in there...

However, I love the challange of making the next one.