My Book

It's not really MY book, actually, it's the book I'm reading for our assignment....but I digress. The title is Smart Kids, Bad Schools, 38 Ways to Save America's Future by Brian Crosby. Now how could some guy just go and write about a complete overhaul of the United State's education system? Aside from the fact that he's been through it, he's also a National Board Certified English teacher with over 20 years of experience under his belt teaching. This book isn't about teaching per say, but it is about the field of education--which i think counts as acceptable reading material. He also uses examples from those many years teaching in his writing, thus making it a book about education from a teacher's perspectives. From what I've read so far (which is like 50-60 pages, give or take) I have to say that I agree with Mr. Crosby on a lot of his plans. Most of them are logical little tweaks to the system that could possibly have a major affect on the way students learn and even how they view education and the architecture of schools themselves. The very first way to "Save America's Future" as Mr. Crosby words it is to change the way our schools looks. He spends pages upon pages comparing schools to prisons- and honestly, speaking as a student, I have to agree with what he said. I think in the next few posts, I want to focus on my opinions regarding his opinions, though they're (again from what I've read) mostly similar, I do have some slightly varying views on how to go about what he says in his book….