Do you question your state education departments enough? Do you question them at all? When you receive a memo from the state, do you take the opportunity to read it and respond? Or do you instantly press delete?

It is our responsibility as educators to question what goes on around us. We should not simply delete an e-mail because we do not like it. We need to read what those memos say and ask for clarification if that is what we need. Too often, educators read the memo or letter, shake their head or complain, and then move on to something else.

Perhaps if we ask for clarification things won't seem as bad? Unless we get an answer we do not like...

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