Education or Miseducation? Who's Failing Whom?

The requirement for standardized teaching and testing sets us up for standardized children; which means it sets our children up for failure.  It also creates an environment where teachers who inspire critical thinking to help youth to discover their uniqueness become the exception rather than the rule.  While the U.S., spends at the top of the spectrum per student (only Norway and Switzerland spend more), there’s no correlation to the betterment of the lives of students.   We have to ask the question “is our school system failing our children, or are we failing to support our school system? On this segment we’ll discuss: bullying (teachers not students), corruption and abuse of power, nepotism, wasted tax payer dollars, and a system that prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. Yet where there is a problem, there is always a creative and transformative solution.  Public education needs innovative approaches for the delivery of teaching and learning - one that addresses the students, not the system. Our guest, Nzinga Felix, invites us to take an uncensored look into the dysfunctional system that squanders our tax dollars and cripples our children, and how we can foster the change we want to see.   Nzinga is a certified School Counselor, a certified Bully Prevention Specialist and member of the American School Counselors Association (ASCA), a college instructor, a former elementary school teacher, a certified yoga instructor, an author, a State Director with the Teacher Defense System (TDS) and entrepreneur.  Her book, 100 Days in Hell, tells her story of working in an environment that perpetually challenged her passion.  Currently, Nzinga is following her passion by infusing education with helping and advocating for others by living purposely, fully and intentionally.