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Situational · Ethical Dilemma

You're a classroom teacher. Six weeks before state testing, your principal directs grade-level teams to focus all intervention time on 'bubble students' just below the proficiency cutoff — which means pulling support from your lowest readers. Scores were flagged by the district last year. What do you do?

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I'd raise it privately first, and bring an alternative rather than just an objection.…

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