No Child Left Behind = All Boys Left Behind
Let's play a little game of make believe shall we? Let's play "house" - and pretend to be a typical American family about five years from now- say in 2014.
In this scenario, Mommy is a CEO, serves on several Boards of Directors, and had her two kids in her late thirties. Daddy is at home full time, cooks dinner, coaches soccer and helps with homework at night. He dropped out of college, after struggling through high school, and can't find a well paying job to justify their childcare costs.
In our make believe game, there are two children. The daughter is getting all A's in school. She is the teacher's pet, class president, plays sports and is in honor's classes. The son likes sports, but hates most subjects in school, struggles with ADHD, and is fumbling. Both have the same amount of attention and opportunities at home, yet the daughter is going to Harvard and the son is going to Community College.
Now, before you get hot and huffy here about gender sexism, bear with me. This scenario is not far from the truth for our upcoming leaders of tomorrow. Since the 1970's feminism has opened up unparalleled opportunity for women to move forward in education and business. Is it perfect? No, but today's daughters are breaking glass ceilings and blazing trails.
However, there are glass shards and dead end roads being inadvertently left for the men, and the boys. In the past ten years or so, the world of education has changed dramatically. The "No Child Left Behind Act" has been a disaster, and instead has turned into "All Boys Left Behind." Our nation's boys are not just slipping through the cracks, they are washing down the Grand Canyon without a paddle, and something must be done about it.
Peg Tyre is author of the book, The Trouble with Boys, a #1 best seller, coming out in paperback this summer. Tyre spent five years researching the current education system from every demographic. She has a powerful, unrelenting story of how our young men are struggling, and describes a giant education gap that will affect every level of American life, in a very short period of time, as these kids grow up.
Currently, boys are being "expelled" from preschool four times more than girls. They are 60% more likely to be held back in kindergarten, and twice as likely to be diagnosed with learning disabilities. Only 43% of young men are enrolled as undergraduates in college, girls are taking more AP classes in high school, and dominating as school valedictorians. In fact, a "dirty little secret" at many colleges and universities is the unspoken "new gender gap." Boys are being admitted to colleges with lesser qualifications than girls to keep the gender balance.
Even though the IQ levels are the same, boys are disengaging from the educational process from their very first moments in a classroom, and steadily falling behind with each passing year. Today 72% of girls and only 65% of boys are graduating from high school.
For struggling families, the child who does the best in school is the one who will be pushed the hardest - nowadays it is invariably a girl. This trend is a massive reversal of forty years ago, where the academic career's of the boys was pushed at the expense of the girls. How can we keep the scales balanced?
Tyre states:
"In some ways its nice to see women on top. But we have to ask who is going to bring up the children and who are these educated women going to marry? In America there are 2.5 million more girls than boys in college, and women tend to marry men of the same level of educational attainment."
If the pipeline that is sending our boys up through the education system is damaged, the catastrophic recession is smashing the other end of the pipe as well- leaving scores of men unemployed, depressed and unsure of where to go next. Statistics show nearly 80% of those losing their jobs from the recession are men. Many of them are helping out at home, and redefining the meaning of "stay at home dad."
Does anyone see the connection here? In our recent lifestyle of 80 hour work weeks, an average father currently only spends 30 minutes a day with their sons. Maybe our struggling boys need their struggling dad's. Maybe both their lives need to be filled with a little more wrestling, games of Spiderman and comic books, instead of endless meetings and boring classroom droning.
Jeremy Adam Smith has written a new book, The Daddy Shift, just released for Father's Day. Smith, a staunch profeminist, spent a year with their infant son as the primary caretaker, and writes a very intelligent and engaging blog called "Daddy Dialectic". He offers a positive spin on the profound importance of men being at home as transforming bread winning into care giving. Check him out on this one minute video:
"Many fathers feel helpless, useless or in the way, when instead fathers can serve as a bridge between the mother and the rest of the world," said Smith. "It is time to come up with a whole new set of rules."
Smith feels that hands-on dads handle stress better when facing issues of unemployment.
"Taking care of my children is the toughest challenge I ever faced, but facing it strengthened me and enlarged my life, and critically, it has helped many of us to survive unemployment,"Smith said.
I asked Smith if he has noticed any differences in how he parents vs. his wife's style.
"Primarily, I think there is not a huge difference between men and women as parents," he begins. "However, I do think father's wrestle more, and while many assume the maternal style is the gold standard, running around playing octopus is how we have fun and relate to each other."
I have great faith that having more men at home can help bring that critical masculine energy back into the nucleus of the family- there may be more sword fighting, squirt guns, and more hours of farting than flash cards. If boys can be empowered by men at home, ideally their ability to perform in school will increase. If more men are paying attention to how their sons are being taught and the obvious deficits they are facing, motivation will occur to take action and address their specific needs.
Let's hear it for the boys. How are your boys faring in school? How are the men out there handling the juggling domestic home front? Let's start a dialogue and your comments are warmly welcomed!
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So let me get this straight.
From this article:
1. Girls do better and are "smarter than boys" in school.
2. Colleges are lessening their requirements for admissions so boys with much lower grades can attend the same schools, too.
3. When girls and boys graduate the boys will STILL MAKE 33% MORE MONEY THAN THE GIRLS!!!
AND one of these ADHD boys will end up being your daughter's boss.
So, tell me again, how are the boys "falling behind"???
Touche! In the end it is the women who do all the work anyway in most families whether anyone care to admit that or not. The male in most species is almost alway only a sperm donor.
Thank you for clearing the perception. And, after we donate our sperm, and if YOU decide to keep the child, WE get to pay you alimony and child support for the next 22 years, in our spare time when we're not fighting wars for you.
Obviously you don't have a son or you would understand. It happens in school, not when they get out in the working world. Thanks for the feminist lesson now I know why I decided not to become one.
This is an extremely cynical viewpoint.
It also takes a valid -- and troubling -- social phenomenon and dismisses it simply because it runs counter to conventional, post-feminist thinking.
As a principal I have seen teachers do what ever it takes to help struggling students. We could help teachers by improving the curriculum:
Reduce the emphasis on language arts and writing. This takes up 80% of academic time. Engage in more discussion time and less worksheet time. Many children need to talk about their learning to make it meaningful.
Increase history, science, music, art, technology and problem solving activities
Increase the school day to include more play and physical education. Adults can't sit still for more than an hour, yet we expect young children to sit for two hours between recesses.
Extend time at the end of the day for effective homework with professional support. As it stands, many children are penalized because their families cannot provide support for homework. Instead of fighting over homework, families would be free to discuss topics of their choice or just enjoy their time together.
Reduce testing by 50%
I agree with all your statements )except I would reduce testing by even more).
Our local elementary school system, because it wanted more teaching time, cut out ALL recesses except for a short break after lunch.
As a former teacher and a parent of two grown children, I protested this. Adult workers are required to be given morning and afternoon breaks as well as a lunch break. Why would we deny our children the time they need to blow off steam and give their heads a rest? I think it makes kids less receptive to learning when they have no down time.
except that language arts and writing are real world skills that can be the difference between getting a better job, getting into a good school, communicating with colleagues/superiors. i can't remember the last time i needed to use algebra, but i use language arts and writing EVERYDAY. i mean, 80% might be pushing it, but if you are a principal, i'd hate to be one of your English teachers.
And have the kids do some real work. Put up a windmill. Build the baseball field. Establish a recycling center in the school. Heck, paint the walls. Design a computer system. We treat our brilliant children as babies. No wonder they're bored.
I don't see enough real investigation to support your hypothesis that schools are failing boys. You don't really address NCLB adequately-and there is an area where I think we could be in agreement -though I don't believe NCLB is especially crafted to appeal to girls more than boys. I am sorry to see that quite a bit of bashing of females in these responses is a result of this provocatively titled post.
I have three daughters who are in the public school system in New York City. They all three have their own styles of relating and learning. Two of them do quite well and one of them struggles in the same way that many have described their sons struggling. I could take the pressure off of my child (and off of me) and say-"poor kid, she has a teacher that won't tolerate her hyperactivity; that teacher just doesn't get my kid". Or I can take greater responsibility for my child's educational experience and craft a plan to help her get become more engaged with the curriculum. It would never occur to me that the schools were failing girls because my daughter's personality rubs her teachers the wrong way. I don't expect school to teach my daughter to have the self discipline to sit still and learn, to wait her turn. Nor do I expect them to cherish her hyperactivity, to enjoy her scattered attention, and to praise her for her wild imagination.
I'm not bashing females, for heaven's sakes I am one! But you don't have boys I see or you would understand the complexities of the academic world between the sexes. I'm sure you're girls are more mature than some of the boys that go to your daughters' school hence some of the issues. My sons have no personal problems, no ADHD, ADD, or learning disabilities beyond the fact they are both very immature for their age. The schools do not know what to do with these boys. They don't fit into a neat category thus they slip through the cracks. I think teachers need to learn how to teach boys.
My daughter's struggle is the same as that described by the parents of boys. I know what you are talking about. The difference is that I don't blame everybody else for my daughter's challenges. I do not believe the school system is failing my child-I believe she must find a way to harness her energy to perform the tasks she is given. In general, girls are expected to be more responsive to regulation, to be compassionate and to focus attention on cooperation. This is not always fostered in boys-hence some of the socialization problems they encounter in school. I think it is a disservice to boys to deny them the valuable skills learned through collaboration. It seems that some parents of boys expect the world to change around their offspring-to accommodate their quirks, to validate their boredom, their lack of engagement. How does that help the boys in their later lives, in their future professional pursuits when they are asked to join a society that values collaboration?
As a child under the no child left behind act and was left behind, I think that you have a close mind Mis Henley.
You are looking at these statistics but they don't mean too much if your not going to look at under lying causes. I have gone to public, boarding, private, and vocational schools. Wanna know what I blame? Standardized tests.
When I was at boarding school my freshman and sophomore year, I learned so much, and that was because they did not have any state requirements. Where as the vocational school had to prepare their students for many tests.
One has to be such a specific kind of mind to survive the public school system. And even more specific to thrive in it.
I did get my GED because I thought I would be better in college. And I have yet to get a grade under a B- and I am on my way to opening my own restaurant.
Girls mature faster than boys. that has always been true. I think that this is what it is.
sorry...not buying it. As a mother of 2 boys who were both in advanced classes, stayed away from trouble, drugs and alcohol, (and while some teachers wanted me to have my youngest on adhd meds...I knew he was just being his little eccentric self and encouraged him) and who are both doing well, paying their own way, in the colleges of their choice, I don't recognize any of what is said to be happening above.
Moms, Dads, you know your kids best, or you should....you are their rock and you encourage them even if others try to shoot them down. If you stick to your guns then nothing stands in the way.
Exactly. I always believed that the education of my children was MY responsibility--with the school as an ally.
Now, with two children (one of whom is dyslexic) doing well in the world, I fell I can also say this to young parents:
Go over your children's homework with them every single day.
If they are having problems, do not wait for parent-teacher conferences to talk to the teacher. Ask her/him what you can do with your child at home to help him.
Have you child read to you every day. Let him pick the book and just enjoy the time together. Eventually he will read because he wants to, not just because he has to.
Buy books for your child. Get him his own library card and visit often.
Go on walks or hikes or bike rides with your children. Take a picnic. Talk about the clouds or trees or fish or ducks. When you get home, look up things about clouds or trees or fish or ducks.
Get your child a butterfly net, a magnifying glass, binoculars, books on bugs and birds, and set them loose in the back yard or park with a notebook and pencil.
Turn off the TV and put away the video games.
This is your child. He is in your hands.
Your opinion means nothing based on only two cases, who happen to be your own children. While you may not be "buying it" the facts upon which these opinions are based are solid. School has become a very hostile place for males.
I thought it was hostile back in the days when the nuns used to beat the crap out of the boys. Nowadays the teachers won't even take away their cell phones when they catch them texting under the desk.
The girls are better qualified. I really don't see where the big 'failing boys' thing comes in. I mean cmon.
You see what you want to see.
Parents, it's up to you to step up if your son is falling behind. Sure, as a culture we should try to ensure that all children get what they need, but in reality "the village" doesn't care for your individual child and their well-being, that's up to you. People can't really have kids and expect the schools to fill in the gaps of absentee parenting or some genetic, behavioral, or social issue with their child. Maybe things aren't great for boys. They haven't been great for girls historically. It's never going to be perfect.
Maybe people shouldn't have all the kids they want, if they can't be there to take care of them. I'm not a fan of full-time daycare before first grade (not uncommon for working parents), and I question if one parent can't be a stay at home parent, or provide the schooling and support that their child needs if problems arise, if the couple should even be having children. I think the way that our kids have really fallen between the cracks is in parental care and guidance. But any suggestion that people shouldn't be popping out all the kids they desire is met with hostility in this culture, because it's seen as our "right" to reproduce no matter what environment the child will be brought into. I care more about children and the lives they'll lead once they're born, than the desires of adults to reproduce themselves because that's their life-plan.
You hit the nail on the head, cucumber.
It's about the parents. Do you men model academic achievement as a prized trait? Or do you ridicule nerds and idolize jocks? Do you moms and dads keep track of how much time your little man is spending in front of some hypnotic electronic device? Do you think of ways to stimulate his learning with the things you do with him on weekends, in the kind of tv you watch with him at night? Do you curl up in bed with him and read to him at night? Do you make sure he is not permitted to text or use his cell phone at school, outside of emergencies or appointments?
Seriously. It's up to the parents. It always has been.
Sadly, the parent can't do everything and in todays society some parents can't do anything. My mom saw me struggling with school (or perhaps more accurartely succeeding too much at school and getting bored). She talked to the school about my problems, they gave her the run around. Beyond that, in several subjects I was beyond her abilities to teach early on (one can take geometry in high school, that doesn't mean they can teach it.) That made it so that every option for her (Montessori school, gifted and talented programs, etc.) was too expensive, so I just dealt with it, and she continued to fight for me, and continue to get the run around. And this is coming from someone from the poor part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, not the poor part of Chicago, IL.
The end result of all of this, I got sooooooooooooo bored of school and just stopped learning until high school (which by then it was too late to really excel). I graduated with a 3.4 and in the top 1/3 of the school, but not too long ago I was the top 2% of the school and probably would have graduated with a 3.8.
I am not sure that this was all based on my sex, but it certainly came into play.
Fine, and as a parent I certainly took responsibility for my children's educations, but the data show that the single largest determinant of success (as measured in all of the standard ways) in school is the quality of the teacher. Not the parents. Not the size of the classroom. Not the amount of money the school gets per child. Not the curriculum. The teacher.
then if my son was failing in school and I determined his teacher was horrible, I'd raise a stink and switch him to a different teacher, or I'd do tutoring at home to make up for the teacher's deficiencies.
Since the point of the article was about how girls are outperforming boys in school, I would agree that it must be the teachers and/or the curriculum that play to the girls' strengths. I don't think parents have a bias in helping their daughters over their sons.
When I went to high school, there also seemed to be a disproportionate number of girls with high GPAs and in the AP classes. Such is it now -- I recently attended my daughter's graduation and scholarship ceremony -- girls outnumbered boys in achievement easily three to one.
There needs to be reform in teaching (of course, when hasn't that been needed?) based on what works best for boys and girls -- if separate classrooms or methods, so be it. I think kids can absorb more information than we're giving them but it has to be presented differently.
For instance my son, who is as smart as his academically successful sister, is currently underperforming in his grades. He can ace some tests, but it is difficult to keep his focus on the dry material. I've realized that I need to become intrusively involved in his studies, whereas I didn't with my daughters.
So, all in all, I think Henley's assessment of the problem is fairly accurate -- Cucumber's not so much.
Ms. Henley- not to nitpick, but your spelling and grammar are atrocious. For example: "the academic career's of son's was pushed at the expense of the daughter's." What is your level of education? Or maybe you've had too many flu shots!
All of those apostrophe problems were certainly distracting, probably undermining her claim to expertise in some people's minds. However, and I'm sure you agree with this, they really have no bearing on the quality of her arguments. So let's ignore them, shall we? And talk about the issues?
After being repeatedly recruited for different sports activities in school and then "answering" to the continuing demand of "why," my daughter had the unmitigated gall to say "we're just not into sports" to the basketball coach. I encouraged her and supported her, but she just wasn't interested. Mouths drop when they find out we don't watch every football game, baseball game, etc.
She's been ignored ever since. I would even venture to say that she has been a target.
The emphasis on sports and athletes is oppressive and overshadows the intellectual, at least in the small town/minded america where I live. Plus, sports activities get ALL the money.
How about this for an explanation: mercury poisoning affecting boys more than girls. That's the mercury that is in massive amounts in the flu shot, as well as in so-called "trace" amounts in the rest. In addition to killing the IQ, mercury is associated with emotional lability and antisocial behavior. The testosterone makes boys more vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects. Pubmed.com if you want to research this yourself.
Possible. But, the other uniquely American practice regarding males that is not practiced in any other civilized western developed country beyong nominal percentages, is routine neo-natal male circumcision within 24-48 hours of birth for no medically indicated reason. Several studies have shown a correlation between circumsision, and the maladies you mention. And more.
Childhood behavior, focus, discipline, and other issues seems to be a uniquely American issue.....
C'mon, male jewish babies have been getting circumcised on the 8th day after birth for literally millenia, and jews not only have the reputation for being smart, but are disproportionately represented in professions that require lots of smarts, like the hard sciences. Try again.
I'll go you one better: How about not only mercury but all kinds of drugs/hormones/medications being flushed and ending up in our ground water. Young boys are being poisoned by the additives/hormones/heavy metals in our food/water/air. Boys are the canary in the coalmine when they're young, and girls get to suffer later as women suffering from our epidemic of reproductive cancers and other disorders. Young boys need to be active...it is normal, but not conducive to an educational environment that tells them to sit down and shut up. Boys don't need to be given drugs, they need to have their learning style needs met, just as girls do. Boys need male mentors, but we're living in a society where the majority of families now are run by single parents and that single parent is usually a very tired under-paid, and harassed mom. Where are all the fathers these boys (and girls too) need so desperately?
Many of these dads are little more than sperm donors, siring children and moving on from relationship to relationship. Thankfully not all men are this way, else we'd really be doomed.
I am a lawyer, not a professional educator. I taught Sunday school for 11 to 13 year-olds for many years at my church.
I had an absolute horror of disciplining ADHD children to force them to sit still for a Bible lesson. The solution I happened upon was to use the Socratic method and to ask very difficult (but short)philosophical and theological questions about Bible verses we were studying. All answers shouted out by those wiggly children were met with lavish praise.
My ADHD kids thrived. I wonder if Socrates was on to something.
Thanks for praising the "shouter outers". That's been a black mark on kids' report cards forever. ;)
(I do understand why, other children need to have a chance - but mine can't help who/what they are - bright and hyper!!!)
cop out. your child should still be able to express himself without being disruptive. Your child needs to learn how to follow rules. Let him shout out while you help him with his homework. or you should home school him. To you, your child is the most important kid in the class room. Which is fine for you, but not the other 35-40 kids in the class room.
Listening to children, and regarding their viewpoints as valuable, can be amazing for everybody involved.
You mean lots of wiggling boys who became philosophers, scientists, soldiers, mathematicians? And so many years ago, before mercury and vaccinations and flushed drugs. Gee.
My son and his friends noticed a pattern in that the boys who had workaholic dads and stay at home moms became very helpless in high school. If mommy wasn't home to help them after school they did not even know how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The happiest most self reliant boys had parents who both worked and shared the child-raising duties, with boys of single moms due to divorce doing better than those with workaholic dads. You are not a success if you work so much your kids do not see you and yet this is still being rewarded in the work place.
This is not our future; this is NOW!
I have a daughter(20) and son(19).
My daughter excelled in school and made straight A's, was given confidence, purpose and even scholarships. Even though he was younger, son was a better reader, and had a higher vocab. However he was consistantly placed in remedial classes due to ADHD issues (and my refusal to consider drugging him). Ultimately, he dropped out of school. The DA was going to prosecute him for coming back from lunch late too many times (a tardy counts as an absence in his school). Instead of going to jail, he got his GED, and is attending community college. However, his confidence in school and in himself is so damaged, I'm not sure if he'll be able to make it through college. And certainly, if we had less money, he wouldn't even be able to go.
From time immemorial, you reap what you sow....
In China, after decades of mandatory family planning, and dictated maximum number of children levels (sometimes 1), that have led to historic rates of females aborted over decades, as males are culturally favored, they have woken up to a serious surplus of men, and a dearth of women. Go figure.......
In the United states after decades of male bashing, and the explicit and implicit political incorrectness of being, acting, or manifesting maleness in any form, American women are waking up the reality of a population of emmasculated, disinterested, disengaged, ineffectual, uneducated low self esteem males..........Go figure........
My son spent the first two years in American schools. His parent teacher conferences were uniformly focused on his disruptive behavior, lack of concentration and focus, and ........oh by the way have you explored ADHD with his doctor..........
My son (the same one) has been educated for the last few years in a foreign country, in a foreign school system, with foreign teachers, with a foreign curriculum, and a foreign agenda (males and females are both appreciated). Miraculously, he has entirely recovered. Parent teacher conferences now focus on his engaged nature, gifted intellect, and contribution to his classes, and nary a mention of ADHD or any other malady.....must be something in the water.......
We reap what we sow.....and we're reaping what we've sown for decades. Where are all the men........................?
What foreign country was your son educated in? European schools have more demanding curriculums with more discipline, less playtime and less coddling. But they are feminist cultures for the most part. What's your point?
I remember the days when boys were routinely paddled in front of the class for being physically overactive. It used to terrify me. Yet, in those days, boys thrived. I'd love to hear someone resolve this contradiction.
Well, I don't know what foreign country your son is being educated in, but I do know as a former teacher in this country that we can't allow kids to constantly disrupt the learning of the 35 or so other kids in the class. I'm not sure how you wanted his teacher to handle his disruptive behavior.
This is EXACTLY what is happening with my two.
I am in a similar situation in that I was so sick of the high school dynamics but did not have the grades to graduate early, so I got my GED and am in community college.
This is my way of saying "Screw the system, I am bound for bigger and better things. Bring it on"
It turns out that by this time next year I am going to be the youngest graduate of my school. (18)
So, what I am trying to say is that community college is such a great thing. And I hope that your son can figure that out before he leaves =]
Good luck!
As a mother of two boys and a woman who has spent most of her life in a "man's world" (engineering and high tech), I was astonished at how feminine my kids' education was. In kindergarten, my son was chastised for not wanting to make a paper cut-out of a kitten and wanting to play with the legos instead. His teacher (of course, a woman) insisted that he needed to learn to cut and paste in order to learn fine motor skills. If you've ever played with legos, you know that they require fine motor skills.
When he started reading, he loved non-fiction books about things - How Things Work, Boats, Planes, etc. - but he was not allowed to write his book reports on these types of books. His teachers insisted upon fiction. All his reading in elementary grades was fiction especially emotional stories about families or animals. He hates that! (I hate that myself!) Whenever he chose a book about war or martial arts, he was steered by his teachers to choose "nice topics." By fourth grade, he was totally turned off education. We desperately need more male teachers to teach in a more masculine way and engage our boys with boy stuff.
Back when males outperformed females on all testing measures, there were virtually NO male teachers. Boys were forced to sit still more than they are now. Everyone was equally bored by the boring reading choices. This doesn't explain the problem, and I think it's a cop out.
My nephew has just hit 14 and is starting to do poorly in school. Why? He texts all day. He tries to be cool and doesn't see school as part of being cool. He plays video games every afternoon and weekend. This discussion really ignores parental responsibility in the problem and tries to blame the schools and the culture.
Duffy I agree with you completely about parental responsibility and role-modeling. There is absolutely no substitute for that. However, you are incorrect about the past ratio of female to male teachers. Over the decades public education has become an increasingly female dominated field. We are at a forty year low in terms of number of male teachers. Maybe you went to a catholic school with only nuns as teachers, but in public schools men were there in the past. We need them back.
That truth in no way diminishes the incredible work women do in education. It is OK to discuss the lack of males in education without jumping to the conclusion that women are causing problems.
Duffy you are wrong. The school system is set up now thanks to no child left behind to teach a test. They do not get what they need. They want cookie cutter little soldiers who get no play period after 2nd grade,cannot talk at lunch time and PE well its basically gone. Yes parents hold some responsibility for their children however the school system has been dumbed down thanks to W. It is nock the school system of your time.
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This happend because I would not allow her to continue to disrupt the learning process. This child was back in class the following day (per the VPs instructions) with no consequences. Send your child to my class with a "ready to learn" attitude and I can teach. When you send you child to school for someone else to raise and teach basic manners, then we fall behind. We are babysitting, and taking away precious instruction time that can be used for students that really want to learn. Just my two bits....
Wow - my admiration and sincere gratitude are due you Terry Fraley-Wilson. You and those like you are American Heroes.
Don't know how you do it but I'm glad you do.
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