short story on once when the teacher took the student for a track
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The lesson of the Kobayashi Maru is that in difficult situations, linear thinking will yield predictable, unacceptable results. It is impossible to change the game from inside the game. SECD offers an alternative to linear 'more, better, or longer' thinking as it relates to academic instruction. As Captain Kirk explains in Star Trek II, it changes the conditions of the scenario; it offers a way for educators to influence academic outcomes by addressing more than academics."
SECD creates new arenas for success, for valued expression, for sharing feelings, and for a renewed sense of purpose beyond test scores. Educators know that most standardized tests do not adequately reflect their students' true capabilities. Students are more than their scores.
Taking a Stand
The Kobayashi Maru, the lesson from Star Trek, is that social, emotional, character, and intellectual development and competence are inextricably interconnected.
It is a reminder, a call to action, not a revelation. Theodore Roosevelt said that educating someone in mind and not in morals was creating a menace to society; Martin Luther King, Jr. said that intelligence plus character is the goal of true education.
The Captain Kirks of education must stop doubling down on traditional academic instructional time and test preparation and instead devote instructional time to social-emotional and character development and its integration throughout the school day. The highest obligation of educators is to prepare students for the future life challenges they will face in college and in their careers, and to prepare them for a life of civic responsibility and participation.
Each day, educators, particularly those of high-risk children of color, face their own Kobayashi Maru. Taking the traditional path is no longer an ethically defensible choice. It is time to boldly go where too few educators have gone before.