What we should be asking of our administrators and educators as our children return to school:
- Being that the human species is a highly cooperative species, and being that the skill of cooperation takes practice to acquire, what models of cooperation will my child experience in this environment, and what opportunities to cooperate will be offered to meet the need of my child to learn cooperation?
- Being that skill in any environment depends on impulses finely tuned to respond to the needs of that environment, and being that tuning our impulses takes careful practice and loving attention, what kinds of loving attention will be applied to tuning the impulses of my child to respond to needs within the environment they’re entering?
- Being that children are instinctively inspired to apply their impulses in a learning environment, and being that restraint of impulses requires a certain cognitive and physical load, which the body and mind take on as a posture, what measures have been taken to ensure that attention is given to applying restraint in selective ways, and to giving attention to returning my child to their natural impulsive state once restraints are removed?
- Being that the human species has a varied and rich distribution of sensory, cognitive, and behavioral expression, even within families, and these expressions are complementary, what is being done in these learning environments to acknowledge, allow, and encourage people with different sensory, cognitive, and behavioral expressions styles and allow them to engage with the world in the ways that make sense to them?
- Being that the adult world is highly specialized and highly cooperative, what opportunities will my child to inhabit different roles, to see which is the best fit for their particular gifts, and so better meet the challenges the adult world will soon offer them?
🧩💖