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Thanks! I happen to be pretty lucky. I work with a lot of creative people and my school has the resources needed to support creativity. Wish that were the case everywhere.

Its a shame more thought doesn't go into teaching

I left teaching at the onset of Dubya's No Child Left Behind. Scripted lessons and teach-to-the-test became de rigour. Teachers quit in droves.

Its a shame and wrong. Making a lesson fun will keep children's attentiion

Teaching is like everything there can be 90% of a group who are great... but the 10% are what people hear about and remember.

I would have enjoyed my classes better if the teacher had made them fun and interesting

Me too. It's also about leadership - winning hearts and minds - instead of "Do as I say because I'm the teacher".

When I was at school, the teachers never took an interest the kids, never got to know us, never validated us. Had they done so our experience of school would have been dramatically better.

I totally agree with that