CJ’s Story: The Power and Failure of Modern Classroom Management

Emily Kirkman
ILLUMINATION
Published in
11 min readJan 18, 2022

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Source: Tony Cardenas via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

The type of story I am about to tell is one of the frequent occurrences when, as a teacher, you know what you’re seeing isn’t right — for anybody — but you’re not only forced to go along with what admin says but pretend to agree with them also. Ideas about education are always growing and changing, but teachers are always expected to agree with the current conventional wisdom. If…

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Emily Kirkman
ILLUMINATION

Former educator commenting on educational, political, and pop culture topics.