If This Post Feels Entirely Recycled, That’s Because It Is (Much Like #TeachStrong) | EduShyster

If This Post Feels Entirely Recycled, That’s Because It Is (Much Like #TeachStrong) | EduShyster:

If This Post Feels Entirely Recycled, That’s Because It Is (Much Like #TeachStrong)

Welcome (back) to Lake Wobegon Academy, where every teacher is highly effective, and every student is (still) in the top quintile…

Oh #TeachStrong… Like one’s loved ones there is something irritatingly familiar about you. In fact, as I poked about your super cool new website, I couldn’t help but feel as though we’d met somewhere before. Because we have met before. I’ll never forget that day back in June of 2013. You charmed me with that line about *a virtuous cycle of excellence and higher pay for all teachers.* Well, maybe not all teachers (wink, wink!). You called yourself the *Opportunity Culture,* and I was totes smitten, especially when I watched the super cool video that I am helpfully including below. And now, like *funeral baked meats,* here you are again, part of the #TeachStrong family. What say you *Opportunity Culture,* shall we get re-acquainted again? For old-time’s sake?

Can you believe I wrote this next part two and a half years ago?
Reader: we have a fiercely urgent problem on our hands. An epidemic of non-excellence in our public schools is holding the children of this once exceptional nation If This Post Feels Entirely Recycled, That’s Because It Is (Much Like #TeachStrong) | EduShyster: