Man, oh man. I am feeling the pressure of being a public school teacher.
My students walk in the door, and I must accept them as they are. Happy and smart, or not happy and not too smart. Motivated and supported by family, or not motivated and not supported by family.
The California testing data from my last year students is in and available for all to see on the internet. What a shock to see that many of their scores actually went down from the year before. Bunches of "my" kids slipped, for example, from BASIC to BELOW BASIC. Or from PROFICIENT to BASIC. My reaction?
CRAP!
If I were working at another sort of job and "my numbers" declined, I would be FIRED!
This worries me. Truly.
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