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Competition or Cooperation?
By Disenchanted
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Our school has recently become a very sharing place--outwardly. Underneath it all, though, there prevails a faction of sneaky professionals. I don't understand it. A novice educator pointed out one time that our teachers| seemed so competetive. I had never noticed. But then I began to see that even amidst sharing, everyone tries to make their end result better than the creator who shared the idea in the first place. Competition is so much a part of our life in the United States. Can we not let it go even when it means our children would be better if we replaced competition with cooperation. Are we so pompous | |
that we think we can teach children to share and cooperate when we allow this spirit of competition to rule in our schools? When people have the audacity to ask, "What is wrong with children today?--I want to say, "Look at (not all but some of) the adults who model "appropriate behavior" for them everyday in their classrooms.
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