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I cannot believe that for the third\u00a0straight year, a piece of garbage masquerading as education “research” is once again being passed around like social media dysentery. Worst of all, well-meaning, yet ultimately gullible educators seem compelled\u00a0to “debate” such nonsense. Since teachers are terminally nice and all dissent is viewed as defect, it doesn’t take much for people to find the silver lining in this bag of manure.<\/p>\n

I hate sharing this article with you because it makes me feel like a hypocrite, but I hope readers\u00a0will consider not considering such baloney in the future.<\/p>\n

They have the audacity to call this child abuse a “theory.” Never mind the scientific standards required for a crackpot idea to rise to the level of a theory..<\/p>\n

The Bare Walls Theory: Do Too Many Classroom Decorations Harm Learning?<\/a>\u00a0(2014)<\/h4>\n
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Every single assumption in this nonsense must be challenged.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  1. It’s the teacher’s classroom, not the students’ learning environment.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Learning is apparently equated with being able to regurgitate facts and propaganda on command.<\/li>\n
  3. Kindergartners should take ANY tests, let alone standardized ones.<\/li>\n
  4. The classroom is a factory where efficiency must squelch wonder, whimsy, thinking, or even daydreaming.<\/li>\n
  5. The purpose of kindergarten or any grade is to be taught.<\/li>\n
  6. Learning is the direct result of having been taught.<\/li>\n
  7. Medical science should be ignored. Children need to cast their eyes as far as possible, as often as possible for healthy vision development.<\/li>\n
  8. Racism is OK. No affluent white parent would tolerate their young children spending seven hours each day in a prison cell pretending to be a classroom.<\/li>\n
  9. There is no role for beauty in education. There is no place for celebrating the creativity, ingenuity, and personal expression of children.<\/li>\n
  10. Learning is to be “distraction free.” Schools are to be antisocial. Knowledge is not socially constructed.<\/li>\n
  11. Any kid has ever read a poster to “reinforce learning they can be useful to helping students retain.” (that quote was a comment from a teacher justifying the practice online)<\/li>\n
  12. Kindergartners can or should\u00a0read any signs.<\/li>\n
  13. NBC doesn’t hate public education.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    At the recent Constructing Modern Knowledge institute<\/a>, Carla Rinaldi, President of Reggio Children (largely considered one of the world’s wisest educators) said that we need to learn AS A GROUP, not in a group.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    How about a world in which teachers behave as each child’s colleague and collaborator? What if you assumed that everyone (kid and teacher alike) want to be in the classroom together? What if you delighted in the company of children?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Educators should really think before sharing such mean-spirited anti-child crap. Some ideas are so demonstrably vile and stupid that they are hardly worthy of “debate.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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