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I think this will discourage potentially good new teachers. I have my teaching degree and taught for a short time before I realized that it was not really about preparing students for the future at all. It was about preparing students for tests, teaching them how to behave in a classroom, juggling students with learning disabilities and dealing with whatever new reform the polititians come up with, all with large class sizes. I do not know how this helps students. Did I want to do all that on teacher pay? No thanks!

Thank goodness there are people out there willing to deal with all this and trying to make meaningful connections with students too.

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