Open Letter to the Hamilton County School Board and HCS District Leadership:
My name is Jeremy Barrett, and I teach high school mathematics here in Hamilton County Schools. For 24 years I’ve taught through six superintendents, several curriculum changes, a dozen iterations of class schedules, two statewide grade scale overhauls, and, most recently, the overcaffeinated rise of benchmark testing.
Benchmark testing. Three times a year. Every year. Like a redundant, blinking cursor in ... more