re: Ok teachers, what are you least looking forward to this year?

In my wife’s district they adopted a “Core Belief” that every child can be motivated through good teaching to meet the standards.

It is worded in a way to make it the teacher’s fault if a student is unmotivated and won’t do anything.

The result of this sets the bottom grade in the class to C- or 74 in her school. So if a kid does nothing and sleeps all day he gets a C in the class. To give him anything lower opens an investigation into the teachers who are unwilling or unable to motivate the student.