“Education is different from so many other fields because everyone has been to school, so everyone feels they know…

“Education is different from so many other fields because everyone has been to school, so everyone feels they know how school should work – obviously, this must be true, because everyone who has ever flown in an airplane is qualified to be a pilot. Parents remember what school was like for them, or how much they hated homework, or how lazy their social studies teacher was and they carry that college-ruled trauma with them as they walk their kids in the door on back to school night. Legislators and school reformers and every article commenter have a hundred things teachers should do differently and zero hours of field experience. It’s maddening to try and work in a hurricane of noise generated by people who feel so entitled to directing us.”

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