Thanks for the inside baseball, it's interesting how it works over there. Some friends have teachers as parents but in my corner of the woods almost all guidelines are given to them, majority of content is always "from the book", and their outside of work activities were mostly grading homework or tests.

It's interesting to me that teaching from the book is discouraged over there, where my feelings are it should be mandatory. It's weird to think there's places where the teacher has so much individual content that might be personal preference to them but not actually work that well.