If you want to get somewhere in this country and you don't have anything, you can't be into short term gratification because education doesn't work on a short term gratification level. And it has to be quality educational system. Whether we like test scoring or not, we're going to have to deal with that, and we're going to have to get our kids to really learn how to take tests. And that's where the organizing comes in again. Making sure that there are teachers that have high expectations of our students in those classrooms.
Teaching really is a calling.
There's so much accountability that you're held to, and your principal isn't the best, and other teachers often aren't that great. You see all these policies implemented that you know will only serve to the detriment of your kids. It's very frustrating and it's really hard on your person, and what you hope for. A cultural shift is also necessary. My parents always said we're going to go back to Mexico.