A Teacher’s Dilemma: Take a Stand Against Testing or Keep Abusing Children | gadflyonthewallblog

What am I?

Seriously. What is it I do for a living?

When I wake up to go to work in the morning, am I preparing to be a teacher or a test proctor?

Am I engaged in the practice of nurturing young minds or am I a tool of the establishment?

Should I be held accountable to the dozens of students in my classroom, their parents and the community – or to my administrators, the bureaucrats and moneyed interests ordering us around?

I ask these questions not as a rhetorical device. I really don’t

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