One superb teacher, both suffering parents and a dead child deserve our empathy and help.
This child died today. The problem of corporate high stakes testing and its insane demands continues for all teachers, all parents and all of our children.
Parent of dying boy has to prove her son can’t take standardized test (update)
I sat next to a superb teacher, Jennifer Rose, during the showing of “Standardized” followed by the panel discussion presented by Opt-Out Orlando’s moms. We discussed the stress she encounters in her present situations of teaching and interacting with seriously ill children. She was Ethan’s teacher.
I, personally, believe that much of the stress she and other teachers experience must come from the inhumane demands made by the multi-billion dollar high stakes testing industry that is divorced from the reality of teachers, parents and children. The Orange County School Board members and the State of Florida School Board members who condone and