| From the
Author
In Childhood
Betrayed, I explore, in retrospect, some of the defining moments
of my life, the moments that have made me who I am. I trace how I,
like every other human, am constantly evolving as the challenges of
life are met and connected to all of the events that have come before.
I chose a
profession, elementary school teaching, that bears the responsibility
for creating many of the defining moments in the lives of young
children. It is a responsibility I feel is not the foremost concern of
many in the profession.
As standardized
tests have increasingly been allowed to dictate the critical junctures
of their learning progress, young children are being denied the right
to learn in the ways that are developmentally appropriate. They are
losing the right to be children, as educators become advocates for
test scores rather than advocates for children.
Virginia
Muller |
