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Education today is like a 3 ring circus and the teachers are the main event. We're jumping through hoops of fire while people are shooting paint balls at us and we're trying to perform a perfect technique ballet routine and balance a glass of water on our nose all at the same time. That glass of water is our students. We're trying to fill them with knowledge and every time the glass gets knocked by a paint ball or we falter in our ballet routine, some of the water splashes out. So rather than filling them up, were just trying not to lose what they already know. All the "responsibilities and duties" of teachers beyond planning engaging, student-centered lessons, takes time away from what really matters; student growth. Yes, some of these duties and responsibilities are necessary, but education as a whole throughout the nation has done a great job of pushing the responsibility of student learning and growth onto the shoulders of teachers while removing it from the students. Teachers are pushing students to pass tests for the sake of demonstrating that the teacher has taught what the state wants students to know, but those students don't retain much of that information.
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