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Chapter 6 Cultural Inconsistencies

Cultural Inconsistencies is known as inconsistent messages we send our students during their K-12 experience. Some examples in Ch6 are:
 * How student apathy goes down each year in school from Kindergarten-excited to be at school and learn, less in 4th and 5th, even less in 8th and then another drop on High School.
 * Ask kindergarten "what did you learn today?" Ask High School student "what did you make on that test?"
 * HS Teachers routinely put grades on assignments and tests and then move on, which is a total contrast to primary grading.
 * Kindergarten teachers consistently check for understanding and find ways to be sure all students learn.
 * The way a teacher looks at grades says alot about what is truly important to that teacher.
 * The ICU system provides extra time and extra help, which is norm in the primary grades.
 * Lower grade teachers say, "I teach children", upper grades say "I teach math, I teach science"
 * Another main point in CH6 is: Secondary and Primary Paradigms. It states that if we bring the secondary paradigm down to primary grades, we will drag student apathy down with it.