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Teacher of the Year Calls It Quits Over Common Core Testing

February 16, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

stacie-starrLive with Kelly and Michael named Stacie Starr of Elyria (Ohio) High School the 2014 Top Teacher of the Year.

Last week the special education teacher announced she was resigning at the end of the year due to Common Core testing.  Ohio is set to implement PARCC.

The Chronicle-Telegram reports:

Gasps of disbelief followed the announcement made during an education forum aimed at unraveling for parents the intricacies of the standardized testing system. Starr was at the podium, delivering a talk on how special education students are suffering under the new system based on Common Core standards and more rigorous assessments. She said as a veteran intervention specialist at Elyria High School, she could no longer watch silently from within the confines of a structured school day.

Instead, she is leaving education in the traditional sense.

“I am going to teach in a different way,” she proclaimed.

Starr wants to start an after-school mentoring program for at-risk students in hopes of saving them from the school-to-prison pipeline.

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“I can’t do it anymore, not in this ‘drill ‘em and kill ‘em’ atmosphere,” she said. “I don’t think anyone understands that in this environment if your child cannot quickly grasp material, study like a robot and pass all of these tests, they will not survive.”

The standing-room-only audience at the Elyria Public Library’s West River Road North branch was shocked. Starr fought back tears as she explained her life as a teacher.

The tests are developmentally inappropriate for typical students and torture for those with special needs, she said. And, even an individual education plan is not enough to shield students from the rigors of state expectations.

“I have faith in my students, but my students are reading at sometimes a fourth- and fifth-grade reading level,” she said. “Each and every day, I have to look in my students’ eyes and tell them I can’t help them because the state has decided they have to prove what they know.”

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Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Elyria High School, Live with Kelly and Michael, Ohio, PARCC, Stacie Starr, The Chronicle-Telegram

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