Word to your mother.

"The exemplary teachers we studied too often had to teach against the organizational grain. They rejected district plans that "required" all children be placed in the same textbook or tradebook (and do the same worksheets on the same day). They recognized such schemes for what they are: Truly anti-scientific, non-research-based fads designed more, it seems, as an attempt to exert administrative power than to produce high levels of student achievement."

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/96

My favorite thing in the world? Doing anything "against the organizational grain."

Fight the power.