“In school redesign, we are constantly battling the gravitational pull of school as usual.” (Billie Donegan, Colorado educational consultant, ASCD’s Educational Leadership, p. 56, May 2008)
Government schooling in Alberta is a nearly $6 billion per year business. In Canada, nearly $60 billion per year. In North America, nearly $600 billion per year.
How do you constructively and meaningfully change something THAT big?
Slowly. Very slowly.
But individual kids can’t wait that long. Individual families won’t wait that long.
Mountains can be climbed… or walked around. The mountain of government schooling is increasingly being walked around. Increasing alternatives and feasible, sustainable options are presenting themselves to individual students and families that allow them to simply walk around government school mountains.
Don’t try to move them. Don’t wait for them to change. Just walk on around.
I think that’s a good thing. I think it is an inevitable thing. And I think it is the only certain way to change something that big. Go around it to something demonstrably better suited to your family, and upon viewing that demonstration the mountain will move itself to provide that same solution.
It is a perfectly legitimate solution to stop trying to change government schooling and to choose alternatives instead.
That’s sometimes how mountains learn.
That’s sometimes how to make them move.
GLO
gordotto@parentsnschools.com
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