Everyone (and by that, I mean anyone who actually spends their day in a classroom) knows that trying to enforce the same educational standards across the entire country is a bad idea. Common Core has been getting a lot of bad press lately, so our state Superintendent of Education came up with a solution. The standards and high stakes tests will remain intact. However, he changed the term from Common Core to "Arizona College and Career Ready Standards." Wow, when you say it like that, it really changes things. I better rethink my stance on this issue.
It's political logic and semantics like that which led me to walk out of my classroom one fine day and never return. Teaching at a school in the middle of a rice paddy with no curriculum, no materials, and Cambodian style toilets is more my style.
It's political logic and semantics like that which led me to walk out of my classroom one fine day and never return. Teaching at a school in the middle of a rice paddy with no curriculum, no materials, and Cambodian style toilets is more my style.
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