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All the Educational Jargon You Need to Know in One News Article
I read this in the news this evening
If you have taught for any length of time, you begin to realize that people who lead school districts all start to sound the same after a while. It doesn’t matter whether these people work at the building level, the district level, or at the state Department of Education. They all sound the same.
It doesn’t really matter what they are even talking about either. They tend to use the same 20 to 25 catchphrases and acronyms in different configurations, depending on the topic and the audience. What I am still not quite sure about, however, is how they all come to use these same phrases.
Did they take a class in educational lingo? Did they buy a deck of cards with one of these phrases written on each card? Did they buy a book of Mad Libs where they just fill in the blank with one of these phrases?
Don’t ask me. I don’t talk like this.
As a matter of fact, I not only don’t talk like this. I refuse to talk like this. The cynical side of me pictures these people pulling slips of paper out of a hat that has one these phrases written on them. Then they simply arrange their speech or email in the order of the phrases drawn.
