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FCAT mania preempts Black
History Month!
More from "A Florida teacher"
March, 2005
I had a meeting with my principal last week to discuss his "concerns about my
teaching style." One of his biggest concerns was that I had "wasted" an entire
50 minute class period on an activity involving African American poets in which
the students had to select their favorite poem from a handout furnished by the
Newspapers in Education program and explain its significance to them. Although
the activity involved identifying the author's purpose and main idea, it was not
an "FACT specific" activity! The most ironic note in this is that while my
principal and I are both white, this atrocity was reported to him by a black
administrator.
Where will it end?
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