The Whiteboard

This is not a board room in a corporation or a lecture room at university. It’s Sienna’s classroom where we parents were invited to sit in for two sessions. The teacher has a computer buried in the podium and provides assisting visual/audio materials on this “whiteboard” above the usual blackboard. The kids read out loud together. Or they lay both their arms folded flat on the desk while they listen to the teacher. Compared to the Canadian circle-time style classroom, this looks pretty repressive. And that’s what we chose to place our daughter for the time being. Little repressiveness like this will go a long way to maximize her freedom in the future. We know it well because that’s where we came from, more or less.