NC Teacher: “I Quit”

[longship]

6. Do you mean that you couldn't juggle six balls at a time?

I taught for a few years, both college and high school math. When NCLB went in, everything changed. The state of CA put in the high school exit exam. It was a fucking nightmare for the math curriculum. I would speak at every monthly BOE meeting about how NCLB, and the state exit exam, was insanity. It didn't do any good, because it was basically yet another Bush unfounded mandate, and a very poor one even if it had been funded.

One of these days, somebody in power will open their eyes to what's happening. So far, nobody's done it.

I am retired now; broke, living on measly social security, but I would never go back into the classroom in today's environment. And I'm a damned good math teacher.