I'm exhausted. Our district has scripted everything we do in a classroom--very little wiggle room to slow down when we need to. Kids feel like they're in prison; teachers are deflated. If it isn't a curriculum that's so tight kids and teachers can't keep up, there's the district progress monitoring tests and debriefs that have taken up to 5 days of instruction time--another reason things are so tight. I'm very happy to be retiring in the spring. My 10 hour school days are done.

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That's the main reason I teach at a small rural high school. Teach what I want, how I want. There is no way I could possibly ever go back to a scripted, canned curriculum that completely sucks the fun and soul out of good teaching. Let me create my own stuff and OWN the classroom. Don't give me a scripted, canned curriculum and expect me to get all excited about it. If I know my students, then sometimes I need to slow down, adjust, and adapt so they can learn. And yes, that might mean deviating from the pacing or set instruction. Pulling me out of my classroom for 5 days to debrief...wow. I haven't even taken 5 PERSONAL days in the last 5 years! What a waste.

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Amen. I was fortunate to teach at a small suburban /rural high school and was able to craft my own "script" for my entire career. I was (and am) too eclectic in my mind, words, and actions to stick with a canned curriculum-- it'd be too damn boring for everyone involved. I have been this way since I started my career--at an interview straight out of college I was asked about utilizing a planned curriculum and said that I didn't think that was a good way to teach. I did not get that job, to my benefit!!

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Ugh, this sounds awful for teachers and students, truly destroys learning experiences for them, and the joy ig teaching for us. Congrats on your retirement!!! You're almost there.

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We have a new super this year and he brought in new curriculum. They have tried to to the same to us. Not only are we a rural district but title 1 as well. Kids are struggling and we are all overwhelmed. Campus moral is the lowest I have ever seen. I have been in the district 4 years and have worked hard to put something together that works. My kids are successful on the EOC’s. It’s very frustrating.

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