Many educators respond to the question about how external realities in students' lives affect (or are allowed to affect) teachers' ideologies of their job. This is an important question. The Education biz is full of wishful thinking and slogans, along with people who really care and who base their practice on what they observe works. Unless we celebrate diversity of opinion, we reinforce a tendency towards groupthink where there's pressure on teachers to give lip-service to the current paradigm, which will probably change in a few years anyway. What does this have to do with educating kids? I hope that Paul Hill, from the University of Washington, is quoted out of context, because his "my way or the highway" approach is completely unacceptable in education.