Touchy-feely educators, listen up!
Youth Focus - - Annchen KnodtAnnchen Knodt of Brenham is a senior at Brenham High School. She is the daughter of Tom and Diana Knodt and has a sister, Anya, 16. She has performed volunteer work at the hospital Wednesdays for the past two years. She is a member of Grace Lutheran Church, where she has played the handbells in the church choir for the past two years...
Q: What is your least favorite thing about high school? "Standardized tests."Q: What is your biggest accomplishment? "When I aced the SAT test."
Interesting. She doesn't like the standardized tests in schools, yet her biggest accomplishment - and this from someone who plays handbells, served as drum major, and does useful volunteer work - was acing a standardized test. I don't understand. Haven't we heard all along from the educrats that children and teenagers suffer irreparably when asked to do things they don't like, or things that might be too challenging? Haven't we been told that self-esteem comes from being told you're perfect just as you are, rather than from things you do? And yet here we have someone who acknowledges that the high point of their life, so far, was successfully tackling something they didn't like very much at all, but which was important, and needed to be done.
Here we have someone who gets it.
Posted by kswygert at March 8, 2005 04:28 PM