New country song, “T-E-S-T-I-N-G”?
Well, I made that up but the story of Chicago Public School teacher turned country singer Katie Quick’s story inspired me. 
As told in the TribuneKatie realized that the COS test prep curriculum was interfering with student learning:
“Growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher, to try to make a difference,” she says.
She became one, winding up teaching 6th-grade science at the Morrill Math & Science Specialty School in the Gage Park neighborhood.
“A lot of the kids in there and other neighborhoods in Chicago don’t even show up for class,” says