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That is so sad. I hope it does not come down to that in the school I teach. I do teach in a small town in Kansas. I truly hope it does not come down to that! I am lucky to have an amazing superintendent and principal. Hopefully the NEA wakes up and realizes what is happening is not working. Next, I fear, these small towns will be hit, and our flexibility will be stripped away from us.

We have to follow and meet all the standards the state has set, but luckily the principal allows us to do it in any way we like. Furthermore, we can teach other material as well, as long as our students know the standards that they will be tested over on the state tests.

Not allowing teacher creativity and no parent support will tear the education system apart.

Also, thank you for the comment. I greatly appreciate it!

I figured it was that area of the country. You are fortunate in that all the propaganda has not reached your schools yet. Too bad you couldn’t find a way to show your school successes as a model for the country at large. The entire north east is lost. Some of the garbage they teach in schools would get teachers arrested years back, for corrupting the minds of minors! Needless to say, students can’t spell, (and they aren’t corrected, spelling doesn’t count) They do not know history, in fact, I will try to make a long story short. I yanked my son out of public school and enrolled him in a great Charter school. Until then, he thought, as he had been taught, that the Civil War was about slavery!

That is just an example. He came to love history, and read on his own. He just entered college in the fall and wants to be a History teacher because he says “they don’t teach history” And this is no easy task, he is working full time, and going to school full time. I try to encourage him, so he doesn’t get too discouraged. Here everything is so expensive, it makes it really rough.