The Welcome Back Letter I’d Love to Give My Students – But Can’t
I’m a very lucky guy.
I have reasonable autonomy, opportunities to collaborate with my co-workers and strong union protections.
Yet even after counting all my blessings, I still can’t do whatever I want. I can’t even do everything that my years of academic training and experience tells me would be best for my students.
Every year I’m told that my worth as a professional is mainly defined by student test scores – that I should use those scores to drive my entire class, that my major goal should be increasing the scores and my every waking moment should be spent examining past scores.
Every year I have to watch out for this data metric and do that much more work because my district has lost even more funding to the vampire charter school in our CONTINUE READING: The Welcome Back Letter I’d Love to Give My Students – But Can’t | gadflyonthewallblog
