I have had multiple teachers tell me that, as far as the curriculum and issues of "falling behind" are concerned, that by spring break, they've pretty much already learned most of the stuff they're going to learn for the year, due to the timing of state testing and such. Would you consider this accurate or no?
I just axed my wife. She said with 2 weeks of testing coming up, in reality they would miss about 4 weeks of classroom time. She said she had gone over about 90% of her yearly instructional information already.