Posted on 04/17/2015 3:57:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
But if you talk to big city school teachers, money will not even come up as a problem. The key is classroom management (discipline). Teachers are simply not allowed to remove disruptive students from class anymore. It makes the schools look bad. Gotta get those suspension rates down!"
Finally! Someone who gets it! Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you, Leaning Right...:-)
The graduation rate from New York City high schools is only 25%. This district is almost 50% better.
Read Robert Weissberg's "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools." Attacks on teachers, like this incident, are common in many inner city schools.
So you’re saying eliminate half the kids so the other kids can get a decent education? I’m on board with that.
From reading Robert Weissberg's book "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools" many or all of those parents and their children have the option to send their kids to some alternative i.e. charter school. Most turn it down.
No, we agree in substance. Our disagreement is semantic. Part of the American education model is the notion that every single child needs to be accommodated no matter how disruptive, dangerous, vicious, stupid, indifferent or incompetent. My brother (like Micheal Savage) taught math in a junior high school in Jamaica, Queens. He too, had to deal with dangerous and disruptive students and unsupportive parents. This policy is insane.
I agree totally. I've read enough info about the situation to realize that most problems with teaching inner city children are due to the children themselves and/or their parent(s).
Unfortunately, many conservatives have fallen for the myth that simply putting these students in private or charter schools will turn them into great students. The facts show different.
Certainly, some of the better students will benefit from being pulled out of a chaotic, many times violent school environment. But many bad students can't be saved due to their own, innate failings. That's the unfortunate truth which conservatives would be wise to understand.
Hate to say it but no society can remain prosperous and strong with those results. I feel for my children. In twenty years or so, this country is going to be a nasty place to be.
when I was in middle school my fear was my mother putting ME in a chokehold for disobeying the teacher!...well not really, but back then your parents backed the teacher 110%...especially since most of mine were nuns...
That's pretty close to what I was trying to say, when it comes to urban high school education. Fifty percent would do well in academic classes. Another 30 percent would do well in a trade-school environment. And that last 20 percent? Hopeless. Liberal policies have ruined them beyond repair.
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