Common Core: Are We Going to Lower the Fences or Teach Kids to Climb

Common Core: Are We Going to Lower the Fences or Teach Kids to Climb

Timothy Shanahan

My dance teacher pressed into servie a substitute to teach my rumba lesson. My teacher, a world-class competitive professional dancer, never tolerated my arrhythmic stumbling. She never cut me any slack. I tried to explain that I was a slow learneer and needed more of an Rtl approach. She would have none of it. I revealed that I had spent the first two years of my life in a half-body cast that now prevented me from moving like a normal person, especially on a dance floor. No sympathy. She just taught and expected me to learn (and I did).