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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]^ The pp with the "known fact" still hasn't responded with any specific citation from NCLB or Common Core.[/quote]

I am not that poster, but I think you are taking her words "known fact" too literally.  She probably meant it is "deeply understood" in the field.  That's how I took it.  Don't berate her for her choice of words that were not as literally accurate as they may have been.  Feelings run deep on this stuff because that's how it is with teaching.  You love this job and have a passion for it.  If you don't, you become a bean counter or something else and you probably take words very literally.  She knows how people feel about this stuff because she's around it all the time.  I get it entirely.  Just know that it resonates in the trenches.  Believe it. [/quote]

The problem is that regardless of whether it's a "deeply understood" belief, regardless of it "resonating in the trenches" it's still WRONG.  The fact that people who deeply hold that belief cannot post any concrete, specific and authoritative language that's actually coming from NCLB or Common Core to actually substantiate the belief that it is so restrictive and limiting should serve as a wake up call that there's something fundamentally amiss in that deeply held belief, and that the problem is in fact elsewhere, it's with school administration, not NCLB or CC.[/quote]

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