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Rainbow Roxy's avatar

This article comes at the perfect time, continuiing your honest, insightful exploration of how our educational sistems often flatten complex human experience into harmful, quantifiable metrics, which really resonated with me as a teacher.

Gem💎 The Natural Learning Path's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and commenting. It means such a lot when I have carried these feelings for such a long time, to find that they resonate with others when shared 🙏 At the same time, I wish it wasn’t so… that we weren’t seeing such harms :-( I can only imagine how challenging your job is when you hold this kind of awareness. I hope that if more of us call it out then something will change.

Notes on Schools's avatar

This post really thoughtfully describes the danger of 'datafication' in education. Not every quality of a child can be quantified. Not nearly every one. Thank you for your thoughts on this topic Gem

Gem💎 The Natural Learning Path's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and commenting 🙏 You’re so right, much cannot be and probably shouldn’t be. The drive for data is a runaway train.

Wendy Priesnitz's avatar

Beautiful piece. I'm sharing it around because every parent, teacher, educational assistant needs to read this. I just read a news piece about how teachers and other education workers are being abused by children. The system's response is to hire more people to protect them, rather than asking why these children are lashing out, why they don't want to be there. So tragic!

Gem💎 The Natural Learning Path's avatar

Gosh, that’s horrendous and so backwards. What a mess we’re in. Thank you so much, Wendy — I’m deeply grateful that you’ve read this post and are sharing it; it really means a lot. You’re right, it’s so important to share these stories to shine a light on the shortcomings of systems that, unfortunately, so many people still place their trust in.

LOVE LEARNED LATER's avatar

So honest and brave...Gemma's legacy:) beautiful!