No, you missed where it says "outsource and underfund". Pro tip: you don't actually have to do that to every service in society.

When can we all slow down while we figure out what we're doing and how we got here? I don't know where I'm going with this, just giving a voice and name to a feeling I have at this moment. Trying to figure out what's best for me and my students.

All I know is I feel torn between anxiety about my students being expected to mature faster and be more academically advanced every year and anxiety borne out of seeing earlier grades become commensurately more intensive at the same time and feeling like I need to race to keep up.

my students are expected to be earning college credits or are considered already behind. I don't know if this is hustle culture applied to kids, if it's a byproduct of bigger trends in education, or if it's just good economic sense as higher ed costs continue to balloon (or some combination).

Is this a side effect of hyper focus on testing and standards? Everything gets shifted further and further down in the name of continuous progress and gap closing? Things I learned and did in high school and beyond are required in 7th grade, and meanwhile