Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Create School Rules For 2024

00:00:00.000 and welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session now today guys we're gonna go live at the exact same

00:00:13.640 time that i'm gonna do this podcast so it's gonna be dual and i'm gonna answer any questions that

00:00:22.540 you guys have and i'm gonna put them up on the podcast i'm gonna show you some christmas stuff

00:00:27.760 that I got and I just got it in the mail recently. Thought that would be fun for us to, uh, for you

00:00:33.180 guys to look at. I'm drinking out of my mom's Elvis mug, you know, Elvis and, uh, Jerry Lee and

00:00:41.460 Lewis. For those who don't get it, please refer to Anna Pak. How's everybody doing tonight? So

00:00:50.860 what's new and exciting, guys? So right now, it's, what is it, two days, a day before New Year's?

00:00:59.000 It's a day before New Year's, and I'm going to kind of work through anybody coming up with

00:01:05.140 questions on TikTok, and I'm going to film the podcast at the same time. I'm going to do it all,

00:01:11.100 is what I'm going to do. Oh, my necklace is tangled. I hate it when that happens.

00:01:15.300 It's because of those raccoons. Thank you, guys. There's so many things that I want to say

00:01:20.260 in this podcast. And I thought it would be great if I did it at the same time. And it's not just

00:01:25.720 because I have like, oh, my necklace is so tangled. I'm sure you guys find this riveting,

00:01:31.020 but you know, when your necklace is tangled and you can't really do anything else in life,

00:01:34.300 it's just like, you have to sit down calmly, take it apart until it's detangled.

00:01:40.420 Right. That that's like a good new year's metaphor. We're on a podcast. I'm going to

00:01:46.380 have a shortbread cookie. I'm going to drink a tea. I'm going to show you some stuff I got

00:01:49.720 in the mail. My student makes these for me every year. It's an amazing shortbread. Absolutely

00:01:56.100 amazing. My night's going well. How's everybody else doing? Did everybody see my TikTok with

00:02:01.000 the raccoons? Guys, I have a raccoon family hanging out on my windowsill. You'll have to

00:02:09.100 watch part two of my video tomorrow to find out how I've tried to solve that scenario.

00:02:13.820 So, my IG username, unlearn16.

00:02:19.640 Your students make them for you?

00:02:24.860 Sorry for the broken screen.

00:02:28.600 Listen, I'm good.

00:02:31.180 I think you'll see part two of the raccoons.

00:02:34.300 It's going to be fine.

00:02:35.900 But let's...

00:02:37.460 It's going to be New Year's.

00:02:38.600 When you guys are going to see this, I know you guys are watching me right now,

00:02:41.200 But when it's going to be New Year's, you know, it's going to, this will air on the

00:02:45.220 second, um, I think we need to talk about some New Year's stuff.

00:02:51.740 What do I mean, Anna revealed my solution?

00:02:54.400 Guys, listen, when you have a partner in social media and then she reveals your solution

00:03:00.160 and she reveals the TikTok that's going to happen the next day, what the heck?

00:03:07.000 took down all my decorations took down everything

00:03:13.720 listen and a heater thank you guys look how you doing terry a couple things number one

00:03:24.700 it's gonna be new year's i don't do resolutions so for all of you who are like what's your new

00:03:30.720 year's resolution. I have zero. But we can talk about cool things that we want, right? That we

00:03:36.780 want in our life, that we're pushing towards. Any question you guys have, now's the time. I'm going

00:03:42.920 to answer all your questions. I'm going to do it on the podcast so everybody hears my answer.

00:03:47.980 How have kids changed? They haven't. That's a hard question for a lot of people to really

00:03:53.960 understand. Kids over the past 20 years, I kid you not, have not changed. What's changed

00:04:01.200 is the access to information they have, the tools they have. To be honest, the thing that's

00:04:08.500 changed the most is the fact that they gain more awareness, more intelligence, more of a world

00:04:14.340 view the older I get because the greater access they have to technology. That is a great thing.

00:04:21.780 That is an amazing thing.

00:04:24.060 So the way that teaching has to adjust is actually quite brilliant.

00:04:28.220 You have to be smarter.

00:04:29.540 You have to be better as a teacher.

00:04:31.200 And you have to not be worried about saying, I have no freaking idea.

00:04:36.060 That's the bottom line.

00:04:38.060 The bottom line is you as a teacher have to realize these kids now can fact check you in 2.2 seconds.

00:04:46.320 There's no such thing as a teacher knowing everything.

00:04:49.860 when I was a kid, I thought teachers knew everything. I would never second guess them.

00:04:56.140 That made us, by the by, not more intelligent in 1980, whatever, 1994. That makes us less

00:05:05.720 intelligent. I don't think we were taught how to be critical thinkers in the same sense because we

00:05:11.180 didn't have access to all the information. I think kids now are more accessible, which has to make

00:05:19.620 me, which forces me to be a better teacher, right? That's what I think. And all these people

00:05:29.240 who are going back and saying, oh, well, we got to get back to the basics. Back to the basics of

00:05:37.240 what? These kids are way past the basics. These kids are living in an era of computer technology,

00:05:42.580 of interconnectivity of self-driving cars of chips of of chips in people's brains and we

00:05:49.820 want them to what go back to the abacus are you okay stop it we can't go back to the basics we're

00:05:58.420 not basic anymore these kids need to know more history more science more technology why because

00:06:04.720 as we grow as a world as a society as a civilization hopefully you know we get smarter

00:06:12.780 So as we get smarter, those kids have to know more.

00:06:15.460 They don't have to know less.

00:06:16.840 How dare you say that kids today aren't as smart? 1.00

00:06:20.400 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:06:21.120 Of course they are. 1.00

00:06:22.040 Of course they are.

00:06:23.060 And for all of you people like, yeah, but they don't know how to build their own fire.

00:06:26.360 Give them three minutes.

00:06:27.340 They'll be fine.

00:06:28.860 But can you code a computer, Uncle John?

00:06:32.960 Aunt Karen?

00:06:35.060 You're worried about what?

00:06:36.740 Calligraphy?

00:06:37.400 Well, you dropped quilled pens forever ago, right?

00:06:41.100 And we're worried about being able to have really beautiful handwriting.

00:06:45.640 I don't know if these are skills we need to hold on to with both hands.

00:06:49.840 That's all I'm saying.

00:06:56.760 But our history needs to be put...

00:06:59.420 Well, technology is a part of it.

00:07:03.100 AI absolutely can affect academic integrity.

00:07:06.560 But if you think for a second that Biff wasn't getting Johnny to write his paper in 1953 and paying a boatload of money so he could go to the better school because his parents had it, you've lost your mind.

00:07:18.500 Of course, all that AI is going to do is force teachers to be better at what they do.

00:07:25.800 And you know what it's really going to do?

00:07:26.980 You know what AI is really going to push us to do? 0.96

00:07:29.820 Stop asking kids to memorize crap that doesn't matter.

00:07:34.480 It's going to push us to stop letting them just go away and do a project, write it down 0.86

00:07:39.500 and hand it in.

00:07:41.920 It's going to start teachers.

00:07:44.440 It's going to change the educational room.

00:07:47.220 It's going to change the way teachers address students because if a student can't have a

00:07:52.580 back and forth dialogue, if a student can't stand and make their opinions and their perspectives

00:07:59.060 well known and argue and banter back and forth, the paper doesn't matter.

00:08:03.280 We should have done this a hell of a long time ago. Want to know why we didn't? Because it's

00:08:07.900 too expensive and time consuming. It's not because it's not better. It doesn't fit the

00:08:12.560 little factory model that all people have nowadays about education. Plug it in, put them in, make them

00:08:17.960 write the SAT. Done with it. We've created students. It's an absolute crock of crap.

00:08:24.720 So you are going to see a whole new, not a whole new, but I am going to start pushing the envelope 0.98

00:08:30.220 when it comes to AI, when it comes to teaching, when it becomes the way the classroom needs to

00:08:34.520 change. I am going to do more and more and more TikToks on that because I think in this world,

00:08:40.140 we need that. Desperately, we need that. Right? And our kids, our students are going to start

00:08:49.000 demanding it. Of course they are. I am feisty tonight. I was all worked up because somebody

00:08:55.340 talks back to basics that you should be tattooed on somebody's face. Ridiculous. Back to basics. 0.99

00:09:03.180 Basic what? We're not living in a basic world anymore. Today, for example, I learned how to

00:09:12.280 deal with raccoons. It might not be perfect, but I learned how to deal. And so do I think that my

00:09:18.880 students are any less capable no what we also need to start doing is stop treating teenagers 1.00

00:09:27.200 or preteen and teenagers like idiots and children they are not they are not idiots they have to 1.00

00:09:36.560 they have to be treated like capable young adults by their parents by their schools by everybody 1.00

00:09:45.440 Because the more that we treat them like children, incapable, unintelligent, right? Babies. We build them into being that forever. Forever. What are we doing? 0.98

00:10:01.900 right you can't baby kids now i am not saying push them off to the coal mines i am saying

00:10:11.760 make sure you have rational expectations for your kids in the school and out right i say to my grade

00:10:21.300 seven and eights all the time there is nothing oh yeah ai is definitely not all right there is

00:10:28.160 nothing, nothing a grade seven and eight can't do when it comes to running a household. 0.97

00:10:35.200 Go with me for a second. Can they be taught how to do the laundry? Of course. Cook? Absolutely 0.70

00:10:41.060 better than me. Clean? Take care of pets? Can they be taught how to paint? Can they be taught how to

00:10:48.320 put up a picture? Can they be taught how to handle the minuscule task? Now, I'm not telling you to

00:10:53.340 all train them up to be electricians and plumbers, but I call people for that too. They can. Now,

00:11:01.500 do I think a grade seven needs to be responsible for everything in the house? Of course I don't.

00:11:05.520 Of course I don't. But they should know how. And they should understand what their responsibilities

00:11:13.620 are in a household. Period. What are my biggest concerns about AI? My biggest concerns are,

00:11:23.340 are lazy teachers. Honest to God. My biggest concerns are teachers that aren't going to

00:11:34.820 change up how we do it in order to start testing and assessing kids. It's not the kids.

00:11:43.760 I'm going to tell you what. Kids love learning. I'm going to blow your mind. Kids love learning.

00:11:49.960 If I take marks off the board for a minute, an assessment off the table, and I say to kids, when I talk to my grade seven and eights about JFK, they were all in pages and pages and pages of research.

00:12:03.720 When I talk to my kids about AI, pages and pages and pages of research.

00:12:08.940 When I talk to my kids about what's going on in the Middle East, pages and pages and pages of research.

00:12:15.300 they want to know they want to understand thank you they want to be smarter than they were

00:12:23.480 yesterday and if you teach them and treat them like they're capable of finding it out and having

00:12:29.400 an intellectual voice of their own watch how much they blow up they they prosper they grow 1.00

00:12:37.060 you talk to them like they're idiots guess what they will be such 1.00

00:12:42.340 100%. Now here's the problem. Here's where it gets messy. Schools and classrooms having 30 to 1.00

00:12:57.500 35 kids in a classroom is incredibly difficult for a teacher to do what I'm telling a teacher

00:13:05.160 to do. What I do in my classroom when I have 12, 15, 16 kids in a classroom is worlds different

00:13:13.980 than what you do in a classroom when you have 30, 35 pubescent, going through hormone insanity

00:13:21.820 teenagers. It's insane. You can't do it right. Now, this is why the government likes to say

00:13:31.900 SAT standardized test literacy test blah blah blah blah blah all these easy markers we're

00:13:37.440 gonna do and it doesn't matter if there's a lot of kids because there used to be a lot of kids

00:13:40.680 back in 1962 when I was in grade 11 of course there were do you know all of the things kids

00:13:47.160 didn't know in 1962 are you kidding you could still hit kids in 1962 as a teacher are we bringing

00:13:56.380 that back? Of course not. It's absolutely insane. Do you know how many kids we lost out of the

00:14:03.840 classroom in 1962, 1982? So many kids. You don't want to be in school? Cool. There you go. Go get

00:14:11.000 a job. There you go. Go get a job. My very first year of practice teaching, I had a teacher that

00:14:16.180 was about to retire, and I asked him what you guys asked me. Have kids changed over the years?

00:14:20.940 And he said, nope, not at all. Here's what's changed. We now make kids stay in school regardless of their desire, their aptitude, their behavior. They stay. So what happens is you have a lot of divergent personalities in that classroom.

00:14:40.280 Now, I do think back in the day, we kicked out a lot of kids or a lot of kids left because

00:14:44.540 they had different learning abilities and methodology that we didn't know quite how

00:14:48.340 to manage, right?

00:14:50.120 So I think we lost a lot of kids there.

00:14:52.120 So now it's not just about teaching kids, sit down, shut up, learn to read, learn to

00:14:57.460 write, memorize this table and spit it back to me. 1.00

00:14:59.880 That's asinine. 0.98

00:15:02.320 We got smarter as a society, as an educational staff. 0.94

00:15:07.120 But as we get smarter, it gets more critically thinking, it gets more connective, it gets more multi-layered and faceted.

00:15:15.240 Therefore, it takes more effort and it takes more people to fully understand the entire picture.

00:15:22.820 You understand?

00:15:24.560 So, we keep comparing to what it was, but when we're comparing it, they didn't even have the internet.

00:15:32.380 They didn't have the internet.

00:15:34.600 Everybody thinks the internet made everything easier.

00:15:37.600 It did not.

00:15:38.360 It opened up a world of information and a world of misinformation and disinformation.

00:15:44.820 It made everything better and more overwhelming all at the same time.

00:15:49.760 And we just dropped it on kids and said, figure it out.

00:15:53.060 What?

00:15:54.340 That's why we have guys like Trump running around this house right now, running around

00:15:58.960 saying, that's fake news, that's fake news, that's fake news, because you can always find

00:16:02.760 a website to back up insanity.

00:16:04.600 If a 45-year-old worker living in the southern United States or the northern United States can't distinguish between what is true and what is false, how can a grade 7?

00:16:15.600 Unless we teach them.

00:16:16.980 Media literacy.

00:16:18.080 Absolutely, yeet.

00:16:19.300 And we can't have media literacy, true media literacy, because I don't know about you, but I'm figuring it out as we go.

00:16:25.620 I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

00:16:27.740 We had no, the only media we were ever worried about was what the commercial was going to make us buy.

00:16:34.600 Tommy I don't know what started it I had a tea I got uppity I was exhausted all day today and

00:16:42.860 I'm talking to you guys I got all ramped up all of this requires us to put more money

00:16:49.640 more education and more training into our teachers

00:16:54.300 kids have no idea what a commercial is they've never watched one skip skip skip thank you guys

00:17:02.600 you guys, please go vote for me on the cheer choice awards. By the time you guys are listening

00:17:06.740 to this, the cheer choice awards will be over and I'll be wherever it is. I'm going to be in that

00:17:11.820 situation, but can I take this moment? Actually, I'm going to take a little divergent path right

00:17:16.200 now to thank everybody for a couple of things. Number one, thank you so much for supporting me

00:17:20.460 on Tik TOK, on Instagram, on Twitter, on my podcast. I appreciate every single one of you.

00:17:28.200 Thank you so much for whoever nominated me for the Cheer Choice Awards and for all you guys for voting and supporting me and spreading that and trying to get, got me into the top five.

00:17:37.920 Thank you so much for being on here with me all the time and staying authentic and truthful and disagreeing with me when I need it and pumping me up when you want to and pumping each other up and supporting each other in this community.

00:17:54.080 This is an example.

00:17:55.280 Everybody says social media is the problem, bullcrap.

00:17:57.680 It is the way in which we utilize it. And social media has this interconnective, amazing power to reach and bind and link hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. Anybody can vote anywhere. Right? This is it. You talk about something that's doing great things, this is it right here. Social media.

00:18:23.200 It has the power to do great things, and if it's not doing great things, that's because there's bad people behind the wheel. And no, please don't make any comparisons between that and gun legislation. I'd still take away every single one of them. You can keep one. There is no similarities because my word cannot hurt physically a school full of children. So don't make that comparison.

00:18:44.700 i want everybody to understand that the power that you guys have is insane is absolutely insane

00:18:57.000 and i just want to say that i appreciate it can i just say i got a few gifts in the mail

00:19:02.020 i just want to say that i i really wanted to thank anybody um audra bradbury from uh stoville

00:19:09.460 just wanted to thank me for my adopt a seniors, um, plan and, and helping that out. I, she sent

00:19:17.740 me a Tim Hortons and a McDonald's gift card. It was so sweet, but her note was incredibly sweet.

00:19:22.360 So thank you for that. Um, I had Cindy and Finnegan, um, that's their first son sent me

00:19:31.000 this beautiful, beautiful note about how important, um, you know, talking about my relationships,

00:19:38.880 talking about my grief, talking about losing my grandma, talking about all these important things

00:19:43.000 is, and they, you know, Cindy really, really appreciates that. And her words are, Cindy,

00:19:48.420 there you are. Thank you so much. I also, oh, look at this. Yeah, Melissa's sending me out

00:19:57.780 dirty guide to a clean home. Melissa, an amazing individual, had a chance to meet her through this.

00:20:03.540 we become great friends. If you have a chance, go get that book. I got that in the mail today.

00:20:11.840 Now I'm going to show you something. So this is from Catherine. I don't know if Catherine's

00:20:16.300 in here right now, but I'm assuming Catherine made this. Okay. It's apparel and accessory.

00:20:26.340 So I guess it's a small business. It's her small business, and it's called It's All Wild Co. It's allwildco.com, right? There it is right there, allwildco.com. Go check them out. This is what she sent me. This is how much you guys know me. Seriously. Look at this. Are you kidding me?

00:20:49.020 are you kidding me and if you're not if you're only listening to this podcast let me let me tell

00:20:56.520 you it is a hoodie with boo berry count chocula and frankenberry all on it how amazing is that

00:21:06.440 i just want to say thank you catherine i don't i don't know if she's on here right now but that's

00:21:12.000 amazing and then this one made raid cry oh wait wait wait this is the one tracy sent

00:21:19.000 I don't know how many people saw the one that Tracy sent,

00:21:21.240 so I wanted to show this.

00:21:24.940 I don't know.

00:21:25.260 Is Tracy in here?

00:21:26.340 Look at this. 0.95

00:21:27.600 She did this for my mom. 1.00

00:21:29.300 Look at that. 0.99

00:21:30.620 Presley.

00:21:34.340 Says dog mom.

00:21:35.380 And then she got one for Anna and I, says Ripley, cat mom.

00:21:49.000 Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? My mom loved that. Absolutely loved that.

00:21:57.920 Should be Ruby Rocket in honor of Grandma Ruby. I like it. I like it. And then I got this beautiful

00:22:02.900 one from Kim Johnson from Fenland Falls. She sent me this beautiful, beautiful letter

00:22:08.560 that is so sweet and so beautiful. She talks about what she appreciates about me and education

00:22:17.120 and how I speak. She talks about, you know, me going through losing Grammar Ruby and support

00:22:23.280 for that. She's been working in a Lake District school board for 22 years. And just the connection

00:22:32.300 there is pretty amazing. And this is why it made Ray cry. Are you ready? So I went to my P.O. box

00:22:39.420 today. This is all the stuff that I got today.

00:22:44.780 Music, is that you?

00:22:47.460 Kim, is that you?

00:22:51.440 Wildco gave me this, Laurie.

00:23:00.240 Okay.

00:23:03.060 So,

00:23:05.500 music,

00:23:07.380 Catherine, sorry, Kim,

00:23:09.420 Let me tell you, you just made my uncle tear, okay?

00:23:14.000 So, I opened it up, and my uncle, and Ray and my mom are both sitting there, okay?

00:23:22.040 And I open it up, and I'm like, oh, this is so sweet.

00:23:25.240 This is so sweet.

00:23:26.360 It says, I wear my heart on my sleeve.

00:23:29.160 And then I didn't think anything else of it.

00:23:32.340 I wear my heart on my sleeve.

00:23:34.200 I'll hold up the book in a second again.

00:23:36.140 I wear my heart on my sleeve.

00:23:37.340 And then I noticed that she has written down my sleeve, Ruby, Angela, Ray, and Anna. Look at that. Ruby, Angela, Ray, and Anna. And the reason why this was pretty cool for Ray is sometimes I don't know if Ray knows how important he is to me, right?

00:24:03.180 I mean, I tell him, but, you know, I don't know how much he knows that.

00:24:07.620 Those other people know that.

00:24:09.520 But I don't know how much he knows that.

00:24:11.080 So to see you guys, well, Kim and you guys know that he is that important to me

00:24:19.240 and I talk about him enough so that somebody who listens to me on here

00:24:23.820 actually makes sure that he's on the heart of my sleeve.

00:24:29.720 Kim, you did good.

00:24:32.220 You did good. You guys all did good. And, and by the way, people have sent me stuff forever in all different capacities, you know, would hide under the bed. Is exactly true. Exactly true. You guys absolutely listen, you know, those have been popular. So many, they're very sweet crafty, right?

00:24:56.460 You need to see the wall behind me.

00:24:59.220 The wall behind me has a shark.

00:25:01.620 It has decafla, which is from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2, 0.95

00:25:05.360 and it has an Ewok. 0.99

00:25:07.320 That's in the wall behind me, just so everybody knows.

00:25:09.800 Now, for people who wanted to see Melissa's book again,

00:25:13.940 Melissa, A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home.

00:25:17.400 I know that's backwards, but it will be frontwards for the at-home viewing audience for the podcast.

00:25:23.120 you guys can go get that on Amazon what are my opinion about teachers carrying

00:25:30.380 guns no a hundred times over no I I can't I don't know what other words to

00:25:41.480 use maybe no in every language that ever was written

00:25:49.400 thank you so much Kim

00:25:53.120 So I think that, you know, I talk about like, it's so funny. So I think what really started me, Tommy, it's just an awful idea. It's not a solution. It's a reaction.

00:26:07.380 i just blew my own mind teachers carrying guns isn't a solution it's a reaction and the more

00:26:16.540 we react to issues within our society and don't understand the root cause the more that those

00:26:22.720 issues are just going to gain more prevalence and more destructive capacity we need to find a

00:26:31.220 solution, not a reaction to the growing numbers of violent crimes and gun crimes in the United

00:26:40.340 States. Period. Period. Right? We need a solution, not a reaction. And I'm exhausted at hearing

00:26:53.280 reactions. And they present the reaction as the solution. There's the banning cell phones.

00:27:01.780 Ridiculous. A reaction, not a solution. Thank you, Yeet. Banning cell phones. I'm going to go on a 0.83

00:27:07.020 tirade about that in the next little while. I have a list of things I'm going to do TikToks about.

00:27:11.820 Banning cell phones is a reaction, not a solution. It's a reaction to teachers not being able to

00:27:18.420 control and mitigate 35 kids in their classroom. It's the 35 kids at the problem, not the cell

00:27:24.680 phone. And by the way, when you take away their cell phones, they're going to do the exact same

00:27:27.480 things on their computers. By the by. Classroom management is a skill, 100%. But when you jack

00:27:36.660 that classroom filled with too many kids, with all of the technology and all of the...

00:27:42.660 you can't do what you're supposed to do.

00:27:45.220 The last time, kids, like, when classrooms were that high,

00:27:49.180 they were allowed to smack us.

00:27:52.880 Totally different environment.

00:27:55.060 I teach grade 7 through grade 12.

00:27:59.080 A reaction, not a solution.

00:28:02.980 Right?

00:28:04.540 All I'm saying is that we need to start understanding

00:28:08.080 what the problem is.

00:28:12.660 And the more that we let people take the wheel and pretend as though, give the illusion,

00:28:18.580 give the pretense that they have the solution, but it's a reaction, the more they're not

00:28:24.200 understanding the actual issue in the first place, period, right?

00:28:31.200 Reaction, not a solution.

00:28:32.700 I feel like I, can somebody DM that to me in Insta?

00:28:36.660 Because I'm going to forget and I want to do a TikTok on it.

00:28:40.640 Just put reaction, not a solution.

00:28:47.460 You tried what, Gabriel, and your teacher took your phone?

00:28:53.800 Parents need to be, you know what the first thing that needs to happen?

00:28:56.880 You really want to know.

00:28:58.300 We want to talk about gun violence.

00:29:00.160 We want to talk about what's going on in schools.

00:29:02.560 We want to talk about how to mitigate and how to make sure that our youth are growing

00:29:10.220 up healthy and aware and safe.

00:29:13.240 We need to start talking about communities.

00:29:17.340 You know, the biggest problem with social media, the biggest problem, let's say, with

00:29:21.340 the internet and the technological universe, it's given us the illusion, it's given us

00:29:27.300 the broken illusion that we can live on this planet alone.

00:29:32.560 it gives us the illusion that we can live on this planet alone so all these movies that are coming 0.90

00:29:40.780 out where all the internet goes down and everything goes to shit and people start 0.69

00:29:44.400 warring with each other it's because they're all terrified and they can't count on each other 0.90

00:29:50.360 because we've been convinced that we don't need anybody thank you tommy we don't need anybody

00:29:59.020 We can do it on our own.

00:30:00.580 Why?

00:30:00.860 Because I can call Uber Eats.

00:30:02.920 Why?

00:30:03.420 Because I can get a technician in here, no problem.

00:30:05.560 Why?

00:30:05.860 Because I can access anything I want in the world right here on my phone until it goes

00:30:10.120 down and then I don't know how to do it.

00:30:12.980 We need to start figuring out, we don't need to get rid of technology.

00:30:16.820 That's not the answer.

00:30:18.260 That's the reaction.

00:30:20.460 We need to understand why has community disintegrated?

00:30:25.640 why has community disintegrated and that includes parents being involved in their

00:30:32.080 schools parents being involved in the community you knowing what's going on

00:30:36.040 knowing your neighbors where's that gone

00:30:38.580 right we have to start engaging with our community if this this podcast social media has taught me

00:30:51.580 anything. It's the need. It is the beauty in community. It is the beauty in community.

00:31:02.680 Teachers ban your phones because you check the time. Gabriel, I get it. And you're going to talk

00:31:08.780 about an individual teacher and I'm going to, I'm not going to stand. I'm not in that classroom. I

00:31:12.940 don't know how it works. And I've probably been the teacher that's done that because what happens

00:31:17.160 is somebody uses it. Somebody uses it. You try to stop them. You try to stop them, but I don't

00:31:21.540 how many kids are in your class and i don't know under what auspice they need to start taking away 0.89

00:31:26.020 cell phones right my my issue is there needs to be clear clear oh that's ridiculous gabriel

00:31:34.980 there needs to be clear expectations for kids in the room on a cell phone or kids in your room on

00:31:40.420 their computer what's your controversial answer i like it eat comes in with a controversial answer

00:31:46.500 community if we could bring back community watch everything fade away

00:31:54.140 neighbors are vital but so many people don't have that so many people don't have that

00:32:03.200 and a lot of parents don't parent because they weren't parented they don't have the skill set

00:32:09.740 they think they're doing a good job and they're usually doing the best they can

00:32:12.520 so what do we need to do we need to provide environments in which parents feel safe to come

00:32:17.840 ask questions be involved be okay to be wrong people don't visit no laurie why would they

00:32:23.880 visit they don't even talk on the phone they just throw a text

00:32:26.220 everybody's caught up in their own world because we can family planning education absolutely yeet

00:32:37.340 Absolutely. Ripples is over. Ripley doesn't sit on me. She sits by the really hot light that I

00:32:47.560 have in the room while I do this. Of course, everything, everything starts at home. Of course

00:32:54.600 it does. And when people are all worried about the influence that teachers have when they're

00:32:58.700 in the classroom, let me be quite, quite honest with you. Your kid by the age of five is 75%

00:33:04.920 formed. Let me say that again. Psychologically, sociologically, your kid is 75% set by the age

00:33:15.060 of five. Everything else from there, that 25% are other things, right? So parenting, you got it.

00:33:26.540 It's you. The problem is you don't want to take any responsibility for that when they're 10 years

00:33:32.820 old doing something you didn't want them to do but a good good chunk of them right a good chunk

00:33:38.900 of it is who they are now here's what we can also start doing stop blaming parents and start trying

00:33:44.900 to find solutions stop pointing fingers saying you're a horrible parent try to find a solution

00:33:51.700 stop reacting start finding solutions and solutions come before the problem solutions

00:34:00.740 come homeschooling to me is a reaction to a problem not the solution but i understand why

00:34:06.660 people do it i would never do it i'm not smart enough but i do have a friend that did it

00:34:11.540 beautifully for six kids we need solutions not reactions yeah neighbors are fighting over where

00:34:21.780 their bushes where their tree is overhanging stop it stop it community care about the community you

00:34:32.740 care about a community nobody breaks into your house anymore nobody breaks in your car you know

00:34:37.860 you're everybody's kids you know everybody's stuff now it's never too late for anybody nephew

00:34:51.300 niece it's never too late for anybody to become aware to work on their stuff none of us are

00:34:59.100 perfect none of us had the perfect childhood none of us had the perfect conceptual birth

00:35:03.360 and life through we've all made mistakes we all are products of parental and family issues and

00:35:11.460 mistakes that's okay what we can't do is say that's just who I am take it or leave it no

00:35:18.060 we need to start taking personal accountability as soon as you hit the age of 18 whatever's

00:35:25.700 happened up until there might not be your fault but it's now your responsibility so as it's your

00:35:31.240 responsibility you need to take the bull by both horns and you need to get therapy get whatever

00:35:37.280 get educated get whatever it is you need in order to do better period so it might not be your fault

00:35:45.800 but it's your responsibility. Any mental health issue might not be your fault, but it's your

00:35:57.320 responsibility. Absolutely. And nobody's asking anybody to be perfect. They are asking them to

00:36:04.860 do the best they freaking well can. That's it. Do the best you can. There are lots of people with

00:36:14.060 many different levels of mental health issues, right? And in no way, shape, or form am I telling

00:36:20.140 everybody they have to act in a certain way, but it's still their responsibility. It can't be anybody

00:36:24.300 else's. It can't be. Right? Not your fault, but your responsibility. And that's what I honestly

00:36:38.740 believe that that's what school should be teaching kids to. Because as a teacher, right,

00:36:45.900 there's a lot of times where I understand or I see that a kid's parent won't get them to school on

00:36:53.360 time. Am I supposed to punish the kid? I'll get on the phone with the parent. The parent will say,

00:36:59.800 I just can't get there that early. I'm sorry. He'll get there when he gets there. Am I supposed

00:37:03.700 punish the kid what am i supposed to do there but that kid needs to understand that even though

00:37:09.380 that's not their fault it's still their responsibility unfortunately and if that's

00:37:14.020 a really concrete example of some bigger issues it's not their fault but if you miss class it's

00:37:19.940 your responsibility so you got to figure out how to mitigate for that right it is a hard one i

00:37:28.180 I can't punish them, but it's still their responsibility.

00:37:33.740 They got to figure that out.

00:37:35.900 The same with parents who are like, we're going away for an extra week at Christmas.

00:37:40.620 I don't care what they miss.

00:37:43.120 Oh, that's nice.

00:37:43.860 You don't care.

00:37:44.420 But it's still their responsibility.

00:37:46.440 School doesn't stop because you decided to go to the Bahamas.

00:37:50.560 So my grade sevens and eights and all my kids understand that.

00:37:54.820 So I had grade sevens and grade eights that took off more time.

00:37:58.000 that's cool but you know what they did they got all of their work done ahead of time

00:38:03.040 they understand that's their responsibility not their fault but it's their responsibility

00:38:11.760 oh i have tons of experience with autism and kids on the spectrum and people on the spectrum

00:38:16.320 because i think the more that i get to know kids and the more that i get to know people

00:38:19.360 the more we understand autism we're all kind of on it somewhere right accountability is a huge

00:38:27.520 challenge and the big challenge is when parents don't want to be accountable

00:38:34.480 but i try to say to the kid very very clearly this is what i try to do because i'm not

00:38:38.720 interested in creating a rift between parent and kid either but i will make it crystal clear

00:38:46.400 with my expectations in the classroom and what their responsibility is and if their parent decides

00:38:53.440 to mess with that i talk to the kid about how to adjust so they can own up to their responsibility

00:39:01.200 period

00:39:04.880 they're adult they're infallible yeah or because they're the adult and and they get to make

00:39:09.840 decisions for their family and that's all true you get to make decisions nobody is stopping any adult

00:39:16.560 from making decisions for their family all i'm saying is that there's there needs to be accountability

00:39:22.640 and responsibility taken that's it um i've taught kids with some physical disabilities nothing

00:39:31.920 incredibly significant nothing um i taught one kid with cp so had some mobility issues but for

00:39:38.800 the most part um i've taught kids the physical disabilities have either been sight or hearing

00:39:44.560 impairments of course you have to do it by case by case leanne and that's another thing right

00:39:51.600 this notion the pretense of objectivity and we apply the same rules to everybody the exact same 0.96

00:39:57.760 and that's what equality looks like is a crock of crap that's why equity matters 0.94

00:40:04.080 that's why equity matters because different students are in different circumstances 0.98

00:40:10.320 and those different circumstances create the need for a different response and a different type of

00:40:16.640 of accountability. Of course. Each child is different. But guys, you know this. You have

00:40:27.900 everybody standing up there saying, we're going to treat all children the same. All children the

00:40:33.300 same. This is my podcast, but sometimes I do a TikTok live while I'm doing my podcast and it's

00:40:38.740 just, you know, all over the place. Equity matters because it's rational. It's not because it's nice.

00:40:47.920 It's not because it's kumbaya, let's all hold hands. No, no, no. It makes sense. It makes sense

00:40:54.260 to get the best out of people that you possibly can get. It makes sense because if you don't take

00:40:59.440 specific circumstances into account, you are going to lose students and you're going to lose people

00:41:05.000 along the way that have something incredible to offer it makes sense to implore equity as opposed

00:41:12.900 to equality equality is the pretense of objectivity if i had everything being equal

00:41:21.340 the exact same for every student meaning you all get tested the same way you all have the

00:41:27.980 same deadlines you all have the same this you all have to write the same amount of letters

00:41:32.180 you're gonna you're gonna find you will see some kids rise and get really good marks great those

00:41:39.200 are the kids that are good at that type of assessment at that type of structure you are

00:41:43.640 not testing intelligence you are not testing capacity you are not testing work ethic you're

00:41:48.740 only giving a leg up to a particular kind of student that's a problem that's a problem

00:42:02.180 it's funny i don't see people making decisions based on their emotions i see governments for

00:42:10.040 the most part and sometimes educational departments making decisions based on two factors

00:42:15.860 what will lead to most kids successfully negotiating the course it does not mean

00:42:24.260 success it does not mean that they they got the best out of the course meaning how do we

00:42:28.500 get most kids to pass this course and two how do we how do we incur the least amount of wrath or

00:42:35.700 the least confrontation or friction from parents are you with me does that make sense

00:42:44.260 that is basically the goal of the educational system how do we do it cheap and fast and how 0.99

00:42:51.360 we not piss off parents that's it what a crock of garbage what a crock of garbage and if education 0.98

00:43:01.440 was in our constitution we should have all the students suing the government based on that 0.99

00:43:07.200 demographic what a crock of garbage i try to have a good bond with my students gabby for sure 0.92

00:43:16.160 but i try to be the best teacher i can be for each of my students 0.99

00:43:21.360 right that's right we lower standards because education is expensive we lower standards now

00:43:32.980 here's also the reality sometimes at home it's not possible i've had quite a few students like

00:43:40.500 a lot of people assume because i work at a private school i don't work with different

00:43:43.720 socioeconomic backgrounds that's 100 wrong i work at a private school that gives athletic

00:43:49.200 scholarships, academic scholarships, and theater-based, I guess, audition-based scholarships

00:43:56.720 into a program called Smith. So we have kids that come to Metro Prep that aren't rich, that aren't

00:44:03.320 driving in with their Mercedes. Some of my kids, their parents have taken out second mortgages on

00:44:08.800 their homes to send their kids to my school. So when they said, when they send those kids to the

00:44:16.360 school, and I have all of these different backgrounds, you have to understand that kid

00:44:20.960 A going home and having to take care of a sibling and having to make sure that, you know, their

00:44:25.840 part-time job is taken care of, and another kid going home with three tutors, two different

00:44:30.420 scenarios at home. Two different scenarios. When the kid going home with the three tutors gets a

00:44:38.760 97 and this kid gets a 76 that is usually not a reflection of their

00:44:46.280 capacity their intelligence or their work ethic it's a reflection of their

00:44:51.240 status at home and what they have to do

00:44:57.080 that's why we need to look at all the factors

00:45:02.900 yes my podcast is unlearn 16 classes in session that's the bottom line

00:45:08.680 fine you have to be aware of that and here's the worst part a lot of parents don't want you to be

00:45:15.120 aware of that they don't want you to be aware of that usually on the side where the kid's going

00:45:19.480 home or has a part-time job or is taking care of kids because some parents are kind of ashamed of

00:45:24.140 that in some way that isn't nothing to be ashamed of that's a beautiful thing when you have family

00:45:28.780 units helping family units but those parents have to talk to their teachers even more so we can

00:45:33.500 figure it out together. So we can come up with a plan together. So we can get the best possible

00:45:39.280 thing for your kid together. But if you're going to hide it, I can't do anything. I can't do

00:45:46.060 anything, right? I can't help. Somebody asked if I'm a parent. I am not. I've been a teacher for

00:45:52.420 21 years, so. Home life has a huge impact. Huge impact, right? Now, there's also another aspect

00:46:03.340 of at home life that is horrible. That is, that could be riddled with abuse of many kinds and

00:46:11.660 neglect. And that's something we also have to take into account. And we also have to understand and

00:46:19.020 we also have to acknowledge. Absolutely. Tommy, you're right. Sometimes parents aren't physically

00:46:24.580 and emotionally capable of doing what I'm asking. I get it. I get it. These are the roadblocks we

00:46:31.440 face these are the things we need to find solutions for not reactions 0.98

00:46:40.720 how do we change the system well we stop first of all we stop voting for people who say garbage like

00:46:48.320 this there's a lot of gravy in the system we just need to cut some of this spending and really

00:46:56.640 streamline the system to make sure your kids get a get an objective quality of education at a lower

00:47:03.280 cost because there's a lot of fat in the system this gravy train needs to come to an end your

00:47:08.080 tax dollars aren't being well spent they're lying i'm going to tell you right now you want a great

00:47:15.040 education system it is going to cost money so can we all say that out loud

00:47:20.560 wanting a better educational system in your province or your state does not include tax cuts

00:47:30.120 it doesn't include tax cuts

00:47:35.240 it has to cost money period number one start asking start asking how much

00:47:46.580 we want classes and come up with with class size limits

00:47:53.140 do i hate america absolutely not i don't love nor hate a country i think that's weird i think

00:48:02.840 patriotism is a disease i love a lot of people who live in america

00:48:07.080 i love people who live in canada i love the culture that i'm surrounded by i like a social

00:48:15.980 safety net. I like healthcare that is paid for by tax dollars, but I don't love Canada. Love Canada

00:48:22.460 is like loving an inanimate object that is constantly changing, but it doesn't, you don't

00:48:28.020 get blind love. No, thank you. You can keep your flag. I think 22 is even too high for those younger

00:48:38.180 ages that I think. I think 22 is too high for especially elementary school. Especially elementary

00:48:50.100 school is where you're building foundations, where you're trying to figure out what's going

00:48:54.140 on at home so you can protect those kids, where you're trying to catch all of the intricacies of

00:48:58.880 any sort of learning ability or divergent ability, where you're trying to mitigate the fact of where

00:49:04.720 they're going to get frustrated and tired and angry. You need fewer kids in order to do that

00:49:13.200 well. And then those teachers need a higher level of education and psychological and sociological

00:49:18.020 development. 35, grade seven to eight, Joe, I'd call the day. I'd tap out. I'm out. It's too many.

00:49:30.780 it's too many because then that just that just ends up 35 grades seven and eights is classroom

00:49:36.040 management not teaching i'm not saying i don't have to classroom manage i do but when you have

00:49:41.140 35 it is too much classroom managing because remember you'll have kids who are neurodivergent

00:49:47.340 who are on this spectrum of all different kinds different learning abilities different ieps you

00:49:51.900 have all these different balls in the air forgetting all together that they're hitting

00:49:56.460 puberty at a freaking, you know, I was going to say Ben Johnson pace, but that would be 0.96

00:50:03.340 inappropriate. Who's a really fast runner? Who's that guy from Jamaica? Whatever. You

00:50:10.160 get my point. They're going into it hard. Right? I'm not a big fan of also, I understand

00:50:19.400 a lot of p a freight train thank you usain bolt that's it does he do this yeah like hulk hogan

00:50:27.560 kind of thing usain bolt uh i don't think having another adult in the room is necessarily the uh

00:50:37.240 is necessarily the fix i think it's like

00:50:42.440 Like it's too many cooks in the kitchen, number one. So, so it's very hard. Have you ever got

00:50:50.700 parenting guys? Let's talk about parenting for a second, right? Finding a person to parent well

00:50:57.180 and be on the same page with at all times of your two or three or four kids difficult. Would you be

00:51:02.400 with me? It's difficult because those kids are smart and they go to parent A, parent B, they're

00:51:07.400 playing one against another all the time. Now time's up by 35 kids and you have two adults in

00:51:12.380 the room and these two adults didn't know each other didn't choose each other

00:51:17.360 probably aren't on this even the same educational page and now you're asking

00:51:21.560 them to to elevate classroom management to an epic level I don't think it's

00:51:26.700 possible no matter how intelligent those two people are and it's like napalm

00:51:33.420 great seven and eight the more you had the bigger the ball

00:51:39.580 does that make sense

00:51:42.820 angela here's the unfortunate part everything in a capitalist system is driven by money so let's

00:51:49.460 embrace that right now let's embrace it right now i'm gonna have another uh shortbread cookie

00:51:55.140 let's embrace it right now that everything in a capitalist system is driven by money

00:51:59.880 that's the system we're in i'm not i'm not yelling about it i'm not condemning it in this podcast

00:52:06.300 although i do let's assume that that it is that's our reality we need to figure out

00:52:15.660 what we're willing to spend the money on that's it stop trying to save money thank you

00:52:23.180 stop trying to save money start trying to figure out what is the best way you can possibly spend

00:52:28.860 money in this capacity how much do we need where is the best money spent ideal class size for me

00:52:36.300 Remember, I don't teach elementary, okay, but I would say, for young kids, max 15, max.

00:52:51.040 All the way up to grade 8.

00:52:53.460 Grade 9, it can get a bit bigger.

00:52:56.100 Grade 10, it can go up.

00:52:58.500 By grade 12, grade 12s, in my opinion, you should be able to be in a class

00:53:05.220 of 30 kids, let's say, and be more independent, more self-driven, if you have had that perfect

00:53:14.780 storm going all the way through. Because come university or college, you're going to be a room

00:53:20.940 full of a whole bunch of people. You need to learn how to mitigate that. As the class size gets bigger,

00:53:28.380 kids need to have more responsibility and more accountability. And if they haven't been taught

00:53:34.820 how to do that younger, it's going to feel like a tidal wave when they're older. Does that make

00:53:41.360 sense? Test scores to me are garbage. I don't know what test score means. I really don't. 1.00

00:53:51.240 Standardized testing to me is useless unless you're trying to find a quick and easy way

00:53:58.220 to pretend that you're objective. My tea was cold. Unacceptable. Accountability. Absolutely.

00:54:10.640 But if we're going to have accountability on any level, in the workplace, at school, at home,

00:54:16.660 you need to have three things. Clear expectation, clear consequence, and consistent follow-through.

00:54:25.700 clear expectation clear consequence and consistent follow-through period

00:54:33.460 and if you have he already brought this one up tracy if you have all three of those things

00:54:40.600 everything else gets better

00:54:42.700 i get that abby so i get trying to group kids with the same level here's the thing

00:54:52.200 when i see a kid in a classroom for example i'll give you an example i have a kid in a classroom

00:55:01.380 who gets 99 99 they work they work they work pages and pages memories like elephants they

00:55:10.860 are amazing but socially they don't know how to interact they don't know how to work in a group

00:55:18.260 They don't know how to rely on other people.

00:55:22.700 They don't know how to do anything other than work and work and work.

00:55:27.620 To me, if I put all the kids in a classroom like Category A, the workers, they're not learning how to be a holistic student.

00:55:37.520 And if they're not learning how to be a holistic student, they're going to come up against it eventually.

00:55:41.040 I also want students to learn. It's okay to be great in a classroom and not so great. That's

00:55:50.160 okay. These students can learn how to help. These students can learn how to pull up because I

00:55:55.720 promise you, this student's not always in that top dog spot, right? They're not always sitting

00:56:02.920 in that spot that student might be awful when it comes to art or music or computers right

00:56:12.200 i also think it's a problem that we let that we let students drop courses they're not instantly

00:56:19.080 good at tell me what you don't save money did i when did i say don't save money i don't know if i

00:56:25.720 said that all i meant is that good education costs money so when politicians are telling you

00:56:36.440 they know how to save money because they know it's being spent irrationally i automatically

00:56:40.520 don't believe them lying right culturally responsive teaching can you give me an example

00:56:51.840 nicholas that's a great question i kind of have an idea of what you're talking about but culturally

00:56:57.040 responsible teaching i would love to know what how how you define that

00:57:08.720 i'm not saying there's no waste of money i'm saying um that that the money that's required

00:57:14.800 might be wasted in some areas but it's not it's essential for the bigger picture

00:57:19.520 might just being spent in the wrong spot

00:57:24.240 students cultures languages absolutely listen the more that you can make education holistic

00:57:31.440 the more that kids can understand that language matters that culture does matter

00:57:36.720 that histories matter that perspectives matter that religions matter all of it

00:57:42.720 that is essential. Now, having said that, my expectation, my consequence, and my follow

00:57:52.000 through will be the same regardless. If that makes sense. I also don't believe that that

00:58:02.460 culture nor religion gets to be the driving force of the educational model.

00:58:12.720 Well, yeah, usually the people that get to spend the money have no idea what they're

00:58:22.480 talking about. Do I believe in book smart versus street smart? Sure, a little bit. I

00:58:29.900 believe that some individuals have a greater capacity to organize their learning structure,

00:58:36.620 to focus on a task, to be told how to go about something and to be very good at that systematic

00:58:42.400 process. Whereas other kids who aren't good at that have to rely on instinct a great deal. So

00:58:48.380 what ends up happening is the kid that relies on instinct, those skills get better. And the kid

00:58:52.240 that relies on functional, structured learning, those skills get better, right? It's not because

00:58:58.760 I don't know if they were born either way. I just think it's a matter of what they get comfortable

00:59:04.340 with early and what they are forced to develop or what they feel comfortable developing.

00:59:10.500 That's basically what it is, right? I teach history, politics, society, all of the social

00:59:20.320 sciences. There's tons of different types of intelligences. And historically, education is

00:59:25.660 only tapped into, let's say, auditory or writing. I'm a teacher, not a lawyer. I found out that it

00:59:38.780 doesn't look like a few good men. And I said, I'm out. I don't get to bang on the desk saying,

00:59:42.960 I want the truth. Stop it. I don't want anything to do with it.

00:59:51.680 11 types of it up. Sure. There it is. Right? Like when I went to, when I was in school,

00:59:57.860 we never talked about it. When I was a student, when I became a teacher, we started talking about

01:00:02.200 different types of intelligences. And now it's ballooned to 11 different types.

01:00:08.780 Now, can you imagine being a teacher of a class of 35 and having to invoke or tap into

01:00:13.660 all of those different types of intelligences and expecting to classroom manage and handle

01:00:18.180 cell phones and handle, it's ridiculous.

01:00:21.100 Was it nine when we were younger?

01:00:24.000 I teach grade seven through 12.

01:00:27.100 I skip grade nine because.

01:00:39.740 Which subjects?

01:00:41.640 Which subjects are hard for kids?

01:00:43.420 Boston?

01:00:45.820 My average, Metro, 15.

01:00:50.340 Grade nine, no, I've never really taught grade nine.

01:00:53.140 I just know puberty is a monster in grade nine 0.92

01:00:55.820 and they're the most insane.

01:00:57.800 I love them. 0.56

01:00:59.520 I don't wanna teach them,

01:01:01.120 but part of me wants to try to teach them

01:01:03.020 just to see if I got what it takes, you know?

01:01:05.200 It's like people that wanna climb Everest.

01:01:06.940 It's not smart and you're probably going to die, but I just want to give it a go.

01:01:15.240 Math and science.

01:01:16.360 When people say math and science has always been hard for me, I usually asked what happened

01:01:20.280 in grade three.

01:01:22.320 What did your grade three math teacher do or say to you? 0.97

01:01:29.040 And usually I met with, yeah, they hated me or yeah, they called me stupid or yeah, they 0.97

01:01:35.500 said that I'd never be good at math, stop trying. That's grade one for you, Tommy. I get more grade 0.97

01:01:46.840 threes. In grade three, it happened. They made me do fractions, made me feel like an idiot. Yeah.

01:01:54.400 Because we're not putting enough money into our elementary schools, and we're not giving

01:01:58.480 elementary school teachers near the respect they deserve. Elementary school teachers,

01:02:03.940 in my opinion deserve more money than i get they should have more education than i have

01:02:08.660 they are building foundational models of little tiny people and they should be specified and they

01:02:14.740 should be um proficient in developmental psychology period period pivotal

01:02:25.460 no there's no history so in grade nine in ontario you take geography grade 10 you have to take history

01:02:33.940 Oh no, history and politics. My grade sevens, I swear I could give my grade sevens my grade 12

01:02:43.340 curriculum, they do fine with it because they love it. They love it. The key about school is

01:02:50.180 to figure out a way to make the kids want to talk about it without making it feel like this weight

01:02:57.000 around their neck of failure and doom. And that doesn't mean that they don't have responsibility

01:03:03.260 accountability it just means how do you present it and and hope for the best don't think for a

01:03:11.600 second guys by the way that i i have all my students are like i love history with joanna no

01:03:17.780 no because i'm battling 10 years of no accountability and responsibility sometimes

01:03:25.660 i'm battling by grade 10 they've already decided who they are if they're smart if they're not smart

01:03:35.300 if they can do it if their opinion has value and i'm battling all of those entrenched socialized

01:03:41.420 predetermined thoughts that have been jammed in their head without their consent that's that's

01:03:46.080 hard right really really hard lucky i didn't even know you saw you were being rude

01:03:53.580 but thank you

01:03:56.800 everybody still battles those thoughts right

01:04:01.040 everybody battles those thoughts

01:04:03.660 and we're expecting our grade 10 and 11 students

01:04:06.360 who haven't had the best time in school

01:04:08.960 all of a sudden just to work hard and give it their all

01:04:12.120 when they don't want to give it their all

01:04:13.280 they don't think they can give it their all

01:04:14.620 they don't even know what their all looks like

01:04:16.240 because they've never ever been given the space

01:04:19.040 and the support and the cheering section to do it

01:04:23.580 So I have a lot of students who don't necessarily respond to that.

01:04:28.240 What do I do with a shy student?

01:04:29.920 I try to figure out what drives them.

01:04:31.880 I try to figure out what they're passionate about.

01:04:34.360 And I try to get them to engage in small ways at the beginning.

01:04:40.740 Doesn't always work.

01:04:42.440 Depends why a student's shy.

01:04:43.940 Some students are shy because they're insecure.

01:04:45.740 Some students are shy because they just don't care.

01:04:48.020 like Anna isn't shy because she's uncomfortable Anna will be quiet that's not shy she just at

01:04:58.020 some point Anna will be like this isn't my conversation and so it seems like discomfort

01:05:03.980 or or not wanting to step into a scenario so you have to figure out what it is am I trying to build

01:05:10.140 up their confidence or am I trying to prove to them that socialization with their peers matters

01:05:14.320 because those are two different roads. Actually, the kids that can step away from those conversations

01:05:20.720 and don't care, those kids don't need any more confidence builders. They're good.

01:05:25.680 They're 100% good. They need something else. They need something else. Sometimes it's both, yeah.

01:05:35.120 27 years, grade five. I love grade five. Grade six was probably my favorite.

01:05:39.880 Anna can dance. She's just, Anna doesn't lack confidence at all. Sometimes if it's not an 1.00

01:05:47.200 interesting conversation, she's just not going to enter into it. I wish she had a teacher. Thank you

01:05:57.060 so much. My throat, guys, I've been yelling so much in this particular one. You know what I'm

01:06:05.980 gonna do i'm gonna give you guys more of my i think i i the podcast has run long i think what

01:06:14.160 i'm gonna do for everybody's listening to the podcast i am going to end the podcast i am going

01:06:19.660 to continue doing a tiktok live because let's be honest there i like the interaction between us

01:06:25.320 uh but i think this podcast is kind of blown up into the educational uh diatribe that i never knew

01:06:32.720 it was going to be. So thank you so much for letting that happen. And everybody who's listening

01:06:37.780 to me, thank you so much for that. I hope you have a great New Year's night. I hope everything

01:06:44.660 went great. Have a great week. And I will see you next Tuesday. Same bat time, same bat station.

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - January 02, 2024

The One Where I Create School Rules For 2024

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