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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an 86 baby and I saw the shift to testing. There was little to no testing when I was in elementary and middle school. But by high school, my teachers spent MONTHS teaching towards the yearly tests. I remember being in AP Calc and then having to focus on basic geometry or long division for stupid tests. It was demoralizing. Plus, the state tests never factored into your grades. So you have college applications and high schools only caring about your grades and then there's this bogus state test.

Also, I think there was a big shift into not valuing teachers or paying them highly. Nurses are paid much higher and thus get smarter students. I knew so many friends in college who nearly dropped out but were able to change to an Education major and easily make A's. And then later on, these teachers only worked a few years before becoming SAHMs. Whereas growing up my teachers truly loved teaching and saw it as a passion. [/quote]
Well that, and it used to be that women could really only go into teaching or nursing so you got a lot of REALLY intelligent people who became teachers because they wanted to go to college and have a career but there weren’t many other options. Now that women can go into whatever field they want, most of the best and brightest have no interest in going into teaching. Not that I blame them. You can make so much more money doing other things and get way more respect and not have to deal with all the BS. [/quote]

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