May 4th, 2011
Today, Arbear did her lesson on blogging and the half hearted results. As planned, in the beginning we had a community building ice breaker. We each had to speak one minute about the person to the left of us. Ms. Finn was fierce in her selection, making sure to put Miss Q by the person she knew the least about. Almost all of us stumbled for words.
'We don't really know each other, so we can't judge each other', explained Arbear after the Icebreaker. I agreed.
Because I know and trust Arbear, not only do I not have a problem with her leadership, but some of her trademark bluntness washes over me. Over the past few days, she had explained to me the blogging system and exactly what she wanted everyone to get out of todays lesson, so I largely kept quiet.
As we got into the heat of the debate on the blogs, Ms. Finn was determined with her message.
Arbear's side can best be summed up like this: We are the ones that need to change. Not the standards.
Not all of us were convinced. There wasn't really a comfortable middle view. Especially since there seemed to be a dividing line between those with complaints and those who were content.
This is what I think:
There are many many reasons that we have for not completing all of our Teacher Cadet assignments. Many of us knew, when we got memo, which ones we may not have been able to do. But did we do our best, even knowing that, like we would in our other classes?
Because we didn't, without coming close to returning the energy and or humble determination that Arbear and Stewart did in creating the new blogging system, I'm going to have to say I agree with Arbear
Some of us see Ariel's honest intentions... but others don't. I think they take it as a personal attack, wherein they are actually the reason Ariel and Stewart designed a new "system". But its whatever. I guess some of us, or maybe just I, want world peace :)
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