Elementary school teachers are supposed to be sweet. We're supposed to be kind. We're supposed to be mild-mannered. We wear pink. We hand out birthday pencils. We explain how rainbows work.
As the Powers-That-Be continue to rain down new requirements upon my children, I find myself getting less so by the minute.
No six year old should sit in his classroom weeping because the testing is stressing him out. Last month said PTB began demands to I test my children on things that are not even in our curriculum - the curriculum I was assigned, not one I chose.
More and more, I am the person standing between the educational policy makers and my children. More and more, I stridently insist that I will not disseminate this insanity to the first grade.
This, folks, is why I need tenure. Not just to protect me - to protect THEM.
Welcome to Mrs. Colmenares' music room - trial (and error!) in the elementary music classroom!
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