Posted on 02/14/2015 11:25:50 PM PST by Nachum
Honored as the Top Teacher by ABCs Live with Kelly and Michael show, Stacie Starr was speaking at an education forum earlier this week when she dropped a bombshell.
The veteran teacher at Elyria High School in Elyria, Ohio, told a stunned audience Monday she will resign at the end of the school year because of the new federal Common Core system of standards and assessments adopted by her state, reported the local Chronicle-Telegram newspaper.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/02/stacie-starr.jpg Stacie Starr
Stacie Starr
At the forum, which sought to help parents navigate the complex standardized testing system, Starr was talking about how special education has suffered under Common Core.
As she fought back tears, she disclosed she is leaving traditional education and plans to teach in a different way.
I cant do it anymore, not in this drill em and kill em atmosphere, she said. I dont think anyone understands that in this environment if your child cannot quickly grasp material, study like a robot and pass all of these tests, they will not survive.
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Watch the media denigrate her as a “tea bagger” you just wait and see, either that or the media will simply not give ANY attention to this story.
HOORAY Stacie Starr!
/gov’t indoctrination centers
What I’ve yet to see, which might be fairly interesting....having a C/C math teacher take a news reporter through a month long course, and introduce chapter after chapter in the current format. I think if reporters grasped the whole deal....they’d probably start to realize it was never designed as a teaching tool....more so....a ‘failure tool’.
Brave teacher ping
It will be the latter.
This gutsy young lady had said out loud what kerjillions of teachers are thinking but are fearful of saying. Kudos!
States rights NOW!
Common core ping
She’s a hero, God bless her.
WOW! Courageous woman!
This country will lose more good teachers from this, leaving behind only the ones who “came to government to fill up their souls” or whatever the hell that creepy congressman Cummings was saying the other day.
Just remember how standards, benchmarks, and statewide testing was going to solve all the problems; get rid of all the bad teachers; get all the kids to grade level. Now it is quietly being pushed aside by our own Repubs; got to keep the kids passing on to the nx grade. I don't get too upset about all the ed talk anymore these days.
She seems to be against “drill them and kill them” teaching, which i believe means pushing them to actually learn things and make sure they have learned things. Note she didn’t complain about the CONTENT of what they were being taught, so that apparently is not why she’s leaving.
Don’t think she’s the awesome teacher everyone makes her out to be.
republicans will fearmonger no differently from Democrats. In this case, the fearmongering is on behalf of private, charter and homeschool interest groups.
It all comes down to no diversity. Everyone thinking the same, everyone taught the same way from birth to adulthood.
It’s easier to brainwash then. You can feed them whatever you want and they’ll say thank you afterward.
Bttt
talking about how special education has suffered under Common Core.
Our little ones need a formula so they can work problems. They don't 7 different ways to "make a new ten".
I help tutor my 11 year old niece who is in a Christian school. What I know from her coursework in general is that if you are a poor family without adults around who can tutor, the kid is hosed. They’ve made it too complicated.
I don’t think the concern about CC is overblown at all. I teach General Ed kids and Special ed kids. Common Core is putting our kids behind what they learned a few years ago. The math is horrible. I don’t understand why your wife thinks it’s no big deal.
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