Even though the principal wants us to believe that this is us "conversing" or "dialoguing," she is the only one talking, so it is more like she tells us how it is, how it should be, and how miserable at our job we are, even though this school is and has been an "A-rated" school since its inception. All this is supported by gorgeous District-created graphs projected on the screen. Test scores are going down. It MUST be because of our poor performance. How else could you explain it? What? Testing conditions were terrible last year? Computers were not working the way they should have? Students were parked in the cafeteria all morning with music blasting and then took the test in the afternoon? We lost a whole MONTH of instruction to this lunacy? NO-NO-NO-NO-NO! It is the TEACHERS' fault! We are terrible, and it is time to change that. To start with, we are now going to be subjected to twice the fun, as the principal has decided to conduct TWO faculty meetings per month this year instead of one. That will give her more occasions to try to get us to use the words the District wants us to use, like: "I am teaching this to fidelity." Do not ask me what it means, but it sounds good to their excellences.
Now, she keeps a straight face to ask us: "How can we make sure that we prepare students for high school?" We are in the same exact room where three months ago the same administrators told us to let our students pass, no matter how terrible their grades were. So, we are to lower our expectations only when it is convenient, and pretend to raise them the rest of the time?
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