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I'm actually a professional educator. My background is in special ed and early childhood learning. When I started I wanted to build on the ideas of Montessori and use a freeze structured kind of play based model for instruction and teaching. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't find anywhere that had what I really wanted, and would allow me to utilize the skills and the theories that I had spent years developing and refining. The system became so overloaded and so focused on tests and standardized scores, that I eventually burned out and got sick. Today I'm in Aid in a classroom but I don't work actually the full-time teacher come even though I have degrees in special education and early childhood, and Elementary. Personally I move the mind that we're ruining our education system, and that our children are paying for our mistakes, and an obsessive focus on test scores and early results. Don't get me wrong learning is important especially early learning. However I believe the way it's done in the us, the system we built, is counterproductive to the real needs of our learners.

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