14 years I’ve been doing this, and I’ve had enough. This may be the liquid courage I had today, but I’ve had it.
I created a new assessment system focused on assessing skill growth and providing useful targets and specific goals for students to improve. After parent teacher conferences I got railed by parents who either didn’t give a shit or just looked for opportunities to go off on me.
Other parents said it was by far the best thing in education they had ever seen. But that’s not enough to outweigh the bullshit.
So I come to you, internet denizens, what do I do now? 14 years experience teaching history, geography, philosophy and ethics, civics, debate… where do I go? What do I do? I’m so insulated in the bubble I don’t even know where to begin outside the US public education system.
Can anyone help me?