A Quick Check-in with some of my top students

For two decades now, I've failed to get the attention of a single publisher for my book "As Told by the Taught".  That failure is the inspiration for this blog.  The title refers to the frustrating fact that all the decisions about how education shall occur, are "top down", from 

🔞 subjects taught

🔞 course content 

🔞 standardized tests (their content and very existence) 

🔞  bell schedules 

🔞 sports offerings

🔞 cafeteria menus 

🔞 dress codes  

Financial consultants, school psychologists, curriculum specialists, and of course experts at state and national Departments of Education are, in every case, The Decider. The group most directly affected by those decisions is never included in the decision-making process.  I decided to find out how they felt about what students went through every day, every year.   The following eleven video commentaries by top students in my Honors Physics class may surprise.   After all, these are the students whose needs are seemingly best served by the status quo.  They are going off to top colleges and universities, and are grooming their performance in high school classes to convince Admissions Officers to send them that prized epistle that begins, "It give me great pleasure to inform you that. . ."  Surely these top-of-their-class students must be enthusiastic participants in their education.  Right?