Teachers in classrooms all over the world are faced with great apathy towards solving the problem of bullying. In fact, very few teachers have received any form of training on how to deal with bullying and if you are a parent, this ought to be alarming because you do in fact not know the kind of environment you are sending your child into day after day throughout the years they attend school. As most parents know, it is also not necessarily the most easy to communicate with a

I made this video in response to a comment I got on one of my Youtube videos from a teacher who flat out exerted that teachers have to put up with a lot of shit from students. My take on this comment and the starting-point of the commenter is that a statement such as this one can only be uttered by someone who is burned out and who has become bitter towards the teaching profession and therefore perhaps should look for another job. This point stands in stark contrast to the pr

Today I’ve heard on separate occasions from a parent and a teacher respectively sharing their perspective from within their own current situation regarding the state of the education system and themselves in it. Both were tragic tales but from opposite sides of the education continuum. The parent felt that her child since starting school had become withdrawn and competitive and even that the child had lost confidence in himself. She explained how through the eyes of the ch

In this post we are continuing with the points we discussed in the previous post, where we asked and answered the question: “Is there such a thing as a bad kid?”. Here we looked at the problem of adults, and parents and teachers especially blaming each other for the problems faced by children and most certainly also blaming children – instead of bringing the point of responsibility home to ourselves. In the last vlog we discussed also how we as teachers in fact have a tremen

In this post we are going to for a moment step beyond the work and responsibility of teachers and have a more extended look at adults as a category in general – within this in blog posts to come, to bring the point back to teachers and education as a solution. However in this post we are firstly and primarily looking at the PROBLEM: Is there such a thing as BAD KIDS? Everywhere one see children that are obese and drinking coke and playing violent computer games. Are there suc

Yet another day of teaching, dragging myself to the slaughter house (school) where the innocent little lambs (children) will be terminated (educated). It is astounding how we as humans – in particular in the west – can walk around, day in and day out, send our kids to school, pick them up again without a care in the world. Because we have to go to work and that is important because we have to make money… someone’s got to do it. Meanwhile our children are sucked dry of life fo