I was a fifth grade teacher. I had already seen what five years in an institution had done to these kids, but still believed I was powerful enough as a one-man-show to fix the system from within. I think about this day all the time. The Kindergarten teacher who had been doing her job for 30 years was suddenly at the mercy of the standardized monster. You can’t standardize play. You can’t standardize individual journeys. You can’t standardize CHILDREN. The answer was never going to be “change the