Winners and losers in education

The common thread apparent in all of my readings thus far is the notion of ‘win/lose’ in many areas of the education system. Not easily identifiable do we see the win/lose theme in educational structures of the laboratory school, traditional school, open school, public school, private school, progressive, charter, desegregated, child-centered, and even the Highlander school. We cannot escape the hierarchy of means to win or lose even in education. Let’s propose …

…did that teacher think she was doing – I hope you know that no one in that class was a loser except for maybe her.” “Let’s give her and the school some feedback on the class so that you come away from it with the knowledge of what you learned was not that you or anyone else ‘lost’, but that you developed the appreciation of completing and not succumbing to a challenge in your life.”