Why does this feel so dangerous...?

Maybe it's just the cold medicine speaking (I am battling a wicked cold), but today in 6th block Algebra 1, as we were working on Exeter problems, I ditched my usual, "safe" piece of lecture and went went for the jugular.

I wanted to give them the real stuff — not the party line position.

I advocated for radical, student-centered sense-making.

WHY DOES THIS FEEL SO DANGEROUS?????