Learn it, don't laminate it!

So how green are our schools? Are we thinking green at all?

We should make it a rule to ask "Is this green?" Take laminating. What is it we are laminating? Does it need to be covered in plastic so that it lasts forever? I suggest not.

The other trouble with laminating kids work is that it is about "product" rather than "process". While an artefact may be evidence of learning, it is not the learning. Instead of preserving the evidence in plastic it might be better to focus our attention on the learning itself.

Throwaway pens? White board markers? Plastic book covers? Photocopy-able worksheets? Is the learning worth the rubbish?



And what about those fundraising Easter eggs? What are we teaching kids when we ask them to sell this stuff? Not only are they junk food, they also come packaged in more rubbish.