Here’s why this article got written now. An excellent teacher in Brooklyn, who prefers to use Sing, Spell, Read, Write, sent me this note last week:
“...just got out of a meeting with my supervisor who said, We like balanced approaches. I hate that argument, have to think of a snappy reply to that stupidity. The basal readers call themselves balanced.”
Clearly a damsel in distress. I wanted to provide the sort of snappy reply that would make the supervisor have a rude awakening.
Good One!!! Maybe I actually know the dumb admin. Ran across loads of them in 25+ years in the NYC schools.