They all should have been drugged into permenant stupor.

Creative people have always been difficult people. I guess that makes life hard on parents of creative kids especially since they are usually rebelling against something. But life is short and kids grow up. parents just need to wait a few years!

The question is, are creative people more entitled to being difficult than regular folks?

Mozart was autistic...???!!! LOL LOL LOL (as they say!).

I love this! And I totally agree that there is a lot to the old fashioned teachniques of reading out loud and memorization. This is one "movement" that speaks to my heart!

Absolutely right! We need to get kids to see that reading is a pleasure not a chore. And I love "rushaholic" -- really, perhaps we don't need to rush as much as we think we do.

You mean a return to literacy? How elitist.

Hah...! And compared to the United States chldren in UK are infinitely more literate. In US our children are not even taught English -- they are taught "Language Arts" -- whatever that means. What I've seen of "Language Arts" are photocopied sheets of random words and extremely poorly written, insipid and mind-numbingly dull pieces written with some politically correct and certainly politically motivated "lesson" in there. Kids here don't read literature, they read Time for Kids. Why teach Mark Twain and Dickens and Kipling when you have Time Magazine?!!

Great item of news! I wish more people would speak out about the junk that our kids are forced to hear and read in school. What kind of education is football chants?

This is great. Thank you for posting this. We need more real education and real art in our children's lives. I wonder if it will ever happen.

Well, this is a very nice program I'm sure. But I have very mixed feelings about charter schools.