So the reversal of instructional priorities is moving now in favor of middle school teachers who use CI in their teaching. The high school teachers are being “outed”. It’s got a lot to do with Covid but we won’t get into that here.
Middle school CI language teachers are beginning to see that they were right all along in their inner resistance to the old, failed curriculums of the past that are still connected to the textbook and the memorization of lists of words. (When I say that they were “right’ I mean that they were teaching in alignment with the standards and the research.) As a result, they are starting to show less fear of the high school grammar dinosaurs. (ACTFL doesn’t mention the word “grammar” once in their extensive web pages).
Were the middle school teachers being bullied? Yes, they were.
(For more articles on how teachers are bullied, click on the “Bullying of Teachers” and “When Attacked” categories her in the PLC pages.)