I first thought of the title of this blog as sort of my own tongue-in-cheek look at my own ideas. I really had no clue as to how good or bad they were, just that I had them and wanted to share them. Do not misunderstand me here – that is still my goal with this project (obviously) but now I find myself staring head-long at something that I have always kept hovering in my brain cloud – Education.

Let’s be honest. There are problems. Small-scale, large-scale, and everything in between seems to have various degrees of brokenness. I’m not going to stand on a soapbox and wax political about teacher’s unions or educational funding (even if the latter is incredibly important). I am more in the realm of the classroom itself and what the student should be taking out of it to move along down the winding road of life. I have the highest of hopes that in my quest to discover why schools are how they are, why students behave as they do, and why the world sees our current educational system as the correct first step to a successful future that I will not simply flounder and fail. Just like the school system, I do not want to consider failure as an option nor will I simply grade myself a little higher to make me someone else’s problem. The first step to creating new standards is to follow them oneself.

Here goes nothing.

Class, for now, dismissed.

Author Note: In the next few days I will be working on the general look of the place. I enjoy the color scheme and layout but find some of the decorations to be a bit distracting. Stay tuned.