The rules are rules have to be followed and the teachers get to follow 'em.
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NO! They do NOT have to follow 'em!
Are police holding guns to the heads of these teachers as they open the doors to their classrooms each day? I don't think so. If they were true professionals they would refuse to cooperate, or they would quit!
"If they were true professionals they would refuse to cooperate, or they would quit!"
Many would probably like to, but they've invested time and money in getting certified in the teacher's colleges so they could be teachers, and now need to make a living. Strongly-held convictions don't put food on the table. But teachers are only a small part of the problem with our schools. They are just part of a system that is doomed (or more likely designed) to turn out poorly-educated students. Poorly educated by classical standards, but well educated in what the system is designed to encourage - conformity, dullness, lack of originality, acceptance of the opinions of "experts" of all sorts. No, don't blame the teachers (although many ARE quite marginal, to be sure, as the system intended, no doubt), they're just trying to make a living in the system.