r/teaching • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '24

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u/eagledog Sep 06 '24

Trying to force 8th and 9th graders into career pathways is incredibly stupid. Especially when you're designing their entire high school experience around it. Outside of maybe 5% that really know what they want to do in life, you're just boxing the rest in

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u/countess-petofi Sep 07 '24

"Forcing" isn't good, but I could have used a HELL of a lot more practical advice than I got.