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My question two weeks ago to teachers on how to fix apathy in our schools triggered a number of varied and passionate responses, but the teachers who called or wrote have three things in common --they're tired, they're frustrated and they absolutely love teaching our kids. A total of 45 local educators participated in the survey and each had much to say on the subject of student and teacher apathy. Their passion was so great; in fact, I came to regret not setting a word limit of, say 1,000 words. Lesson learned. But I digress. I will not keep you in suspense. According to the teachers who participated in my admittedly non-scientific survey, there is no No. 1 reason for apathy in our public schools. There are two. Those reasons are "tests" and "parents." It's hard to say which of the two teachers are more frustrated with -- standardized tests that "have created a generation of students who know how to take tests, but who hate school and see no value...
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