https://kindofidea.com/tags/school/ Recent content in School on Kind of Idea Hugo en-US Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://kindofidea.com/sometimes-schools-get-it-terribly-wrong/ Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://kindofidea.com/sometimes-schools-get-it-terribly-wrong/ <p>At times, schools insist on promoting viewpoints that, in my opinion, can be harmful to students&rsquo; development—viewpoints that conflict with the goal of educating people who can contribute to society. Below, I&rsquo;ll describe an incident involving a mistaken point of view, which I&rsquo;ll discuss throughout this post.</p> <img title="Back to school" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/204934333_7738d2e5a9_m.jpg" alt="by http://www.flickr.com/photos/52636849@N00/" width="240" height="195" /> by http://www.flickr.com/photos/52636849@N00/ <p>The incident took place at a high school. I&rsquo;ve seen the same scene in both public and private schools: one day, a teacher had to be absent, so another teacher had to take responsibility for teaching two classes at the same time.</p>