Dad

I just had a pretty hilarious conversation with my dad that I thought I would share. A little background first, my dad is a high school math teacher who is very close to retiring, but he really loves teaching so doesn't want to leave just yet.
I was telling him how I'm writing lesson plans and he was very supportive and also picked on me a little saying I should stop complaining because he's been doing it for 30 years. He talked about how important lesson plans are and how once you've written enough you get the hang of it and how he doesn't even need to look at his lesson plans anymore because he has done them so many times he is "perfect."(he's so humble...) So then when I brought up SLO's and my frustration with them it opened a huge can of worms. Apparently my dad and "everyone" hates them. As a teacher in New York he feels that SLO's are trying to push old teachers out of the classroom. He doesn't even see the point in writing them because "New York is going to change their mind about them in a year or two anyway."
He also talked about his extreme frustration with the fact that teachers are taking at least a few minutes at the end of each class to work on their SLO's and being a math teacher he added up all the time wasted doing this and all the course material that could be covered in that wasted time.
In his words exactly "I'm paid to teach, and to facilitate learning, not to fill out bs paperwork that wont matter in a few years anyway."
My father ladies and gentlemen...