Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race

University of Chicago Press Journals ^ | May 27, 2009 | Unknown

[Politically Correct]

Because there’s nothing more frustrating to a teacher than students that don’t want to learn.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Teachers avoid combat zones, this shouldn’t be a mystery!

[silverleaf]

Parents do the same thing.
Don’t they, mr and mrs obama?

[nmh]

“A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study’s author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school's racial makeup may have a direct impact on the quality of its teachers. “

That's no surprise.

Even good black teachers want students who WANT to learn and are well BEHAVED. It's beyond race. It's more of a cultural issue ... for example who can forget the phrase that “that's real WHITE of you” - when someone does well or does the right thing.

At some point the black race has to do some soul searching and move beyond blaming skin color. Condi Rice, Sowell Thomas, Clarence Thomas all went through ugly name calling like being an “Uncle Tom” etc.. They were accused of “selling out” to the “whites”. Why? Because they are accomplished. There seems to be a DOWNWARD push on blacks to STAY DOWN and that since that is what the racists, Sharptons, and Wrights WANT OF THEM.

[TSgt]

student characteristics

As in thugs without self-control?

I graduated from a predominantly black high school. It's as close to being incarcerated as I ever want to get. I missed 40+ days of school my senior year because I often feared for my life and still graduated in the top 7% of my class. Don't paint the teachers as racists if they, like me, simply want to avoid violence.

[Radl]

Just what it is about black students that pushes high-quality teachers away is hard to pin down,

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Your kidding me right?

[nmh]

But of course!

They don’t want their girls in PUBLIC SCHOOLS around those black students. They want their kids in a PRIVATE school to get away from unruly kids and poor education standards. OTOH, the Bush girls went to PUBLIC schools.

[TSgt]

It's beyond race. It's more of a cultural issue

Spot on.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[theDentist]

So, all you teachers in schools with a high number of minority students are apparently low-quality instructors... just thought you should know what people who study these things think of you despite your best efforts and dedication to your students.

[central_va]

[Boiling Pots]

I know a teacher who thought she would do some “good” working in an inner city school...most of the students were completely disrespectful, had no desire to learn, parents completely disinterested.

She quit, and moved to a “white” school.

[silverleaf]

Students that don’t want to learn and parents that are belligerent to any authority that tries to force those poor little victims (sarc) do the work that learning requires

[fleagle]

Another pointless education study, IMO. We can't blame teachers, or act like it's some kind of big surprise, that most would rather not teach in an under-performing school district where kids are unmotivated and parents are either non-existent, uninvolved, or downright hostile towards education and educators. Places where school boards are petty tyrants, resources are limited, and each day is a struggle just to manage the classroom let alone teach anything worthwhile.

Thank God there are still many excellent teachers in some of our most under-performing schools, but I don't blame the ones who flee.