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“Children are pushed harder now," she said in comparing her 1954 classroom with students today. “They are expected to learn more and learn faster... They’re taught so much more now. They’re doing what used to be fifth grade work in the second grade.” According to Mrs. Moore, children were more interested in learning during her earlier days as a teacher. In her view, today’s students have more opportunities and better materials but they also have additional activities to divert their attention from school.
In the days before state mandated Standards of Quality, Mrs. Moore taught classes that ranged from 19 to 42 students. A believer in the benefits of smaller classes and even smaller instructional groups within classes, she still had no greater discipline problems in handling 42 youngsters than she had in managing 19.
On her retirement, she has mixed emotions about the teaching profession. “It was a job,” she explained. “At first, it was a pleasure. I liked it. Not that I didn’t enjoy teaching (towards the end of her 24 years) but the longer you worked, the more you had to do. There was more than just teaching—there was all that paperwork... That
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