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rents are willing to put in the study and practice to be successful then you have the third group they struggle and they have little interest in putting in any effort for the teacher this is like being in a three legged race and the student lies on the ground sometimes pulling in the opposite direction that isn t to say that such a student is doomed to failure in life they may have dozens of talents aptitudes and interests they just don t fall into academic categories i have seen many of these kids go on to wildly successful lives schools just tend to be obsessive about academics all that to say as an older teacher i just find myself smiling and nodding a lot posted by andrew at 9 04 am 1 comments we don t got this things changed about 25 years ago during district meetings if a teacher brought up how we should be involving the family district folks and admin started to say well we can t control that so let s talk about what we can control it was a subtle but tectonic shift on the face there was a certain logic to it we can t control what families do this is true however the practical upshot was that families started to interpret this as don t worry about educating your child we got this but we don t we don t got this over the years more and more kids arrived at school without foundational pieces in place joey could read dr seuss but jimmy didn t even know his letters sally has been read to nightly since infancy but sarah never experienced a book until she came to kindergarten reading proficiency rates dropped like a rock through a wet paper bag fingers were pointed every which way it was the whole language debacle phonics will fix this we need better instructional practices every solution has been tried repeatedly except the most obvious one america and its schools need to communicate to parents that their involvement is pivotal it is not optional and we will not be ok without it we don t got this parents do until that is the reality we face we will continue to rearrange chairs on the titanic posted by andrew at 9 02 am 0 comments friday september 26 2025 marvel zombies just got done watching marvel zombies meh it wasn t bad it just wasn t anything special it was indicative of what marvel has become over the past few years corporate systematized the opposite of what dc has become since they handed the reins over to james gunn is the gunn dc universe perfect no but it has soul pursuing a perfect system is always a mistake it does not exist the best you can hope for is a creative system this is what is wrong with the american education system we want a perfect system it doesn t exist we should want a creative system but that means tolerating some imperfections that means i do one thing while someone else does another what works for me cannot be replicated across the entire system because people are different we have to be okay with diversity within the system posted by andrew at 11 24 am 0 comments wednesday november 27 2024 i used to teach sunday school i am cleaning out my hard drives and i came across a letter i had written to my church leadership back in 2008 i was a sunday school teacher at the time and the sunday school staff was going through a morning of training by a para church organization that was dedicated to child evangelism i was taken aback at how aggressive the training was to get children to make professions of faith reading the letter i am struck by how obvious it is that my perspectives were going to eventually lead me out of the faith one simply does not find a home in conservative evangelicalism if you believe that questions and choice should be part of one s path it is also plain in the letter that indoctrination and dare i say grooming are a set component of children s ministry in such churches which is why they are forever accusing others of the behavior projection projection projection anyway if you are interested here is the letter dear friends let me first say that i am excited about everything we are doing with the kids in adventure canyon mary lee and i are grateful to be teaching the kindergarten munchkins i have some concerns about what was presented this morning by the children s evangelism group i am reluctant to bring up anything because i know being in leadership you are juggling enough items without me adding to them i know the decisions made by the leadership at adventure canyon are done in the best interests of our children as followers of jesus we would like to see everyone become followers of jesus i believe the circumstances in which one begins that journey can be crucial to the direction it takes after the event when it comes to children we have to be careful with our practices this morning we heard about how one would lead a child to christ and what that might look like the presentation made me uneasy i know for myself that i have no intention of leading kathryn and jacob down that path anytime soon i feel they are too young to make such a decision in the same way i would not expect my 9 or 6 year old to make a decision about which career they would choose or whom they shall marry they could make such a decision but i do not feel it would be a competent or cognizant one i want my children to fall in love with jesus and as tempting as it might be for me to put them on that road i must let them make the decision i know that others would hold to a different view in that regard but that is my point there will be many views amongst parents about the how why where and when such a thing as a decision for christ would happen with a child i choose to model my christian practices and discuss with my children why i feel the way i do concerning god i want them to use that as one of many perspectives when they begin to make independent steps toward god it would be more than a little troubling to me if an enthusiastic sunday school teacher overstepped my intentions it was brought up this morning that a teacher might feel led to lead an entire class in a sinner s prayer consider that event from an outsider s perspective my family has visited our local ward on a number of occasions i know that my kids may hear stories from the bom or about joseph smith while there in sunday school i accept that however i would feel completely violated if my children were to come back from sunday school having been baptized into the mormon faith i feel that we did not get a chance to process or talk about what was said this morning there were a dozen or so folks present and there may have been many varied interpretations of what was presented the spectrum could be from someone like me who would be reluctant to walk a child through a sinner s prayer to someone who may have intentions of a ten for ten conversion ratio by next week i am asking that perhaps we need more time as a teaching staff to talk about this before we jump in happily serving the children in adventure canyon andrew hackman posted by andrew at 6 32 pm 1 comments saturday november 23 2024 thanksgiving been thinking a lot about what i have to be thankful for as thanksgiving approaches there is this scene in a dracula mini series that comes to mind it is the year 2015 and dracula has been asleep for centuries upon waking the first home he encounters is a small bungalow inside he finds a woman very unhappy with her lot in life she has let her home fall into disrepair in her depression where she sees nothing of worth he walks through her home in fascination clean water flows from the tap a refrigerator to store food a shower that produces hot water in an instant a toilet in the home she miserably shrugs off his wonderment he finally looks at her and says in my time princes in palaces could not have imagined the luxuries afforded to you i was listening to a podcast yesterday where the guest was talking about how our discontent as a society stems from the comparisons that are forever presented to us on social media we are always being reminded of what we do not have so this week i am going to remind myself to focus on the laundry list of luxuries afforded to me i ll take some time to acknowledge the wonder of a hot shower posted by andrew at 1 01 pm 1 comments friday august 09 2024 belief is not a virtue belief is tricky i don t think it is as simple as letting go i don t think a believer can make a decision to not believe in their deity any more than i could make a decision to believe in one i think one can decide to protect a belief you can make efforts to safeguard it from difficult questions i think the best anyone can do is to try to bring all of your thoughts and ideas into the examination process one can choose to do that i recall as i was entering the deconstruction process deciding that i was going to put all of my beliefs on the table i didn t do this lightly i feared unbelief i remember a discussion i had with a believing friend after i left the faith he was frustrated with my lack of belief in his god and seemed to take it as a personal insult in a moment of frustration he declared well at least i believe in something he was protecting his belief by defining the state of belief itself as a virtue but holding to an idea isn t a virtue and it is problematic when we give ideas a permanent place in our identity posted by andrew at 2 25 pm 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me view my complete profile follow hackman s musings on facebook labels abortion 1 america 5 american gods 2 atheism 85 barak obama 38 bart campolo 6 ben mcadams 1 bernie sanders 1 bible 2 bible quizzing 16 bill maher 7 birthday 1 black lives matter 1 book of job 5 books 38 border 1 brian mclaren 16 calvinism 8 christianity 10 church 2 comics 1 conspiracies 1 consumerism 2 covid 2 deadpool 1 disc golf 3 education 92 emergent 45 evangelical 1 evangelicalism 13 evangelicals 4 facebook 65 faith 3 feminism 1 focus on the family 13 frank schaeffer 6 fredo 1 fundamentalism 1 glenn beck 11 guns 1 hell 40 heresy 20 history 1 hitchens 1 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