DA op-ed: Avoiding hoops in public education

Written by
Zach Vander Veen

July 23, 2019

Like most educators, I entered the profession to focus on what matters—teaching kids. That said, my first week of teaching always consumed an embarrassing amount of hours filling out and filing paperwork, verifying I conformed to that year’s district initiatives, or generally puzzling out what various new education acronyms meant for my day-to-day work.