I never liked classrooms

An article about "no excuses" teaching to  kids in a bunch of classrooms.  The kids have good classroom behavior or they get shamed.

I never liked teaching because I never liked classrooms. What's the answer? I dunno, read the article. I cannot even think clearly about cramming kids in classrooms, never got passed the basics.  How did I survive? Ditching, I was the expert at ditching.   But there are many, many hours of me being crammed into a desk.

VOX: 
Many people have asked me what I make of the video, recently published by the New York Times, of a New York City charter school teacher scolding a first-grader and then ripping her paper in half. After all, I wrote a book about teaching, including several long chapters on school discipline.


On one side of that debate: educators and parents who argue that the no-excuses approach is not only defensible, but the only way to solve racial and class inequities in schools and beyond. These people grant that the no-excuses style has imperfections; indeed, moments like the distressing reprimand captured in the video of Dial make it very much a work in progress. But they say the strong academic results of "no excuses" schools prove that the model only needs evolving, not fundamental change.

On the other side: An equally passionate group arguing that no-excuses practices are systematically abusive and a form of institutional racism, undermining any academic gains they may enable. These critics are not just speculators. They include people who have taught and still do teach at no-excuses schools.