Thanks.
I’m amassing quite an arsenal on this beast that’s being unleashed as I’m writing this. Teachers, if they can, are starting to retire in droves to get away from CC - these are experienced, highly effective, hard core teachers of math, English, non-PC history, AP science, who came in in the old days, when there was strict subject matter testing for teachers, before ed schools switched to pedagogy over subject matter, and are completely dedicated to student learning. They are keenly aware that the methods they’re going to be forced to use to teach PC social justice issues across the curriculum are going to be a disaster.
One of my cousins is throwing in the towel this year, a bit early, he teachers AP physics and calculus in a university town and said he won’t teach what CC requires and teach according to CC methods (mostly student “guessing” and “estimating” answers).
In California, my evaluation will be based on CC test scores and soon, I’m sure, my salary. My union is opposed to CC but has been completely emasculated.
I was able to switch to an almost entire schedule of electives a few years ago, art, gardening, teen living, things like that that are still required for graduation — before CC hit (I saw it coming a mile away, we all did). I do have two classes (unfortunately) that are part of the core subject curriculum and I would drop those in a heartbeat if I could. Electives aren’t subjected to strict testing schedules and evaluation methods as are math, English, science, etc.
DH says I’ve got two more years (he keeps an eye on our retirement status).
teen living???