of anyone. I don't think we were talking about the same things at all, since the original text was worded so broadly as to include all lesson planning as being essentially too much work and gushing about 'simplicity'.
Once you narrowed down to only complaining about additional 'teach to the test' issues and supervisors who had no academic experience being the ones who judged actual teachers, I thought we were basically in agreement.
And though you seem to want to be judgmental and and proclaim my reply 'evasive' and that you were only seeking 'a straight answer', I'm not going to assume you're a bad faith actor, as you seem to be implying I am. I gave a short, admittedly rather flip answer, that was truthful. When you decided you needed to know more so that you could 'be dismissive' of my words, I answered again, with another truthful answer.
I'm not 'unfamiliar' with what is going on in many k-12 settings, I'm just getting much of my info second hand, from current students and current teachers I speak with. Again, as I noted at the top, the OP was worded so that it seemed to be overly dismissive of the notion of all classroom preparation, not just the ongoing fiasco being foisted off onto American classrooms first by Bush, and then continued by Obama.
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