Stacie Starr won the teacher of the year award that is sponsored by the ABC TV show, LIVE: With Kelly and Michael. That was last May.
Last week, she quit teaching in the local school system. The news story is here.
Stacie Starr says mandated state testing is pushing her away from teaching.
The veteran Elyria Schools educator said Monday she plans to resign at the end of the school year.
Gasps of disbelief followed the announcement made during an education forum aimed at unraveling for parents the intricacies of the standardized testing system. Starr was at the podium, delivering a talk on how special education students are suffering under the new system based on Common Core standards and more rigorous assessments. She said as a veteran intervention specialist at Elyria High School, she could no longer watch silently from within the confines of a structured school day.
Instead, she is leaving education in the traditional sense.
“I am going to teach in a different way,” she proclaimed.
Starr wants to start an after-school mentoring program for at-risk students in hopes of saving them from the school-to-prison pipeline.
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