Blog Post 10

I felt like both of these stories Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home and Morgan Bayda's blog post were both about teaching kids information they will never need if they even remember most of it.

Morgan Bayda's

Morgan Bayda's blog post was about a kid that was enrolled at the University of Nebraska but dropped out by choice because he felt he was paying to be taught useless information, when in reality he has a really good point. He talks about how his teachers only reading power points and having there test on random facts from these power points. Your grade is on how well you can memorize facts for one test.

Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home

This poem starts out talking about the acutally not letting the kids bring their pencils home because children who do score less on big state testing but then it goes on to explain what they are actually trying to say. They talk about teaching our children useless information that they will never need in life.