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

Good luck and I hope you have a great year and that your new approach will be successful.

As for Covid, I think educators use that as an excuse for why scores are low, but I don't agree with that. Scores are low because we have been passing kids through the system for years and it's not going to change anytime soon. I have students that do absolutely nothing and fail my class and they bump them up anyway. It used to bother me, but I've come to realize that I did my part and if the administrators want to pass that student, that's on them.