Reply #3: We had our daughter's conference last night, and at its conclusion, her teacher... [View All]

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... engaged us in the familiar discussion we've had w/our daughter's past few teachers re passion for her profession that's unfortunately dampened extensively by what she referred to as "govt meddling" as it pertains to bureaucratic expectations, and the ridiculous, counter-productiveness (to actual 'learning') of placing such high degree of importance on certain test scores. At least our daughter's well ahead of the curve for her grade's expectations for reading comprehension, writing, science and math ... shit, man, they're covering mathematics yrs before junior high that I wasn't even getting in high school ...which I'm told is basically to get children familiarized with the structures/process so that it won't seem so alien to them several yrs down the line.