There's increasingly a top down approach to business where the individuals are not to make decisions but instead, refer to the manual.
Bingo.
This is where I think that the business model not only fails completely in an educational setting, but is actively destructive.
The teachers who are truly gifted teachers are forced out-- because they can't really stop being teachers in favor of being "curriculum delivery experts."
I strongly suspect, in fact, that it is just such a pass that resulted in my DD's favorite teacher being abruptly terminated last year. She refused to color only inside the lines, and the administrators (corporate) got tired of it.
What is sad is that kids who aren't in the central distribution at which curriculum is targeted/tailored wind up with NOTHING that they need from school. Teachers aren't allowed to give it to them.
