...the students realize you're being paid and expect more out of you.
Or they're apathetic and don't care. Or they've been pushed around too much by teachers and parents and don't want to listen to yet another person who wants them to work and not play.
Have you read Last Child in the Woods? It talks about how a lack of unstructured play is actually damaging to children, mentally (possibly causing ADD and depression) and physically (see: obesity). Considering my animal-handling and plant-identification skills-- neither of which is PHENOMENAL, but both of which are far superior to many city-dwellers'-- I might want to look into starting nature walks with elementary age kids.
Sadly, many kids know more about endangered polar bears and amur tigers than can identify ground squirrels, columbine, or brook trout. This is one of the reasons the environmentalist movement isn't gaining more ground faster; if you don't care about your OWN landbase, then what's the point?
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Date: 2008-11-06 04:06 am (UTC)Or they're apathetic and don't care. Or they've been pushed around too much by teachers and parents and don't want to listen to yet another person who wants them to work and not play.
Have you read Last Child in the Woods? It talks about how a lack of unstructured play is actually damaging to children, mentally (possibly causing ADD and depression) and physically (see: obesity).
Considering my animal-handling and plant-identification skills-- neither of which is PHENOMENAL, but both of which are far superior to many city-dwellers'-- I might want to look into starting nature walks with elementary age kids.
Sadly, many kids know more about endangered polar bears and amur tigers than can identify ground squirrels, columbine, or brook trout. This is one of the reasons the environmentalist movement isn't gaining more ground faster; if you don't care about your OWN landbase, then what's the point?
:D