Learning Journal #3

Alright so this week I thought our facilitation topic was very interesting. Interesting enough that I in fact read all of both articles, which is surprising that I did not do the usual skim, get enough out of it that I will sound like I know what I am talking about. I found myself thinking back and forth almost siding with the US one second and Germany the next. I kept jumping the fence and I am still doing it when I begin to think about the pros and cons. However, I feel like there is no such thing as a perfect education system. In my mind a perfect education system is one that is cared about. I feel like for instance NCLB is a program designed to get the nation on an equal level, however they all want us to end up in the same place when it is all said and done. But, at the beginning we were not all on the same level and a big factor was the economic level of each of the schools. I think it is an unfair thing that it is doing to schools and teachers. I feel like Germany's school system is set up and works great for them, and ours is set up and is working for us. I think it would not go over well if we were to introduce an education system like Germany's in the US. It might sound like a nice thing, but people are always going to have their two cents to put into everything.