Because there’s nothing more frustrating to a teacher than students that don’t want to learn.
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.
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
Yours are exactly this economist first thoughts on the results. If a group of students transfer in from a group that view study and education as “acting white” why wouldn’t teachers who can leave, leave.
I teach in a low performing, high poverty school.
Some of my most dear students are the A. American ones. Show them some tough love and a bit of TLC and they will try to walk on water for you. Some of them are the hard core, wanna be thugs, but are willing to work hard for me.
I do have those that will not perform or cannot perform, but they are few and far between.
Am I a good teacher? Scores seem to say so, considering I teach the lowest performing (before special needs) in the school, so I get a lot of those self same students.
But, by most on this board, I am a fool for doing what I feel called to do, with the students that I choose to work with.
AND who call you a white devil,
AND who attempt to stab you in the hallway with homemade stabbing implements.
I think they should do a study, take race out of the equation and see if there’s not some other factor or factors involved. I can tell you, as a teacher, I wanted first, a SAFE environment in which to teach, and after that came things like willing students, good discipline, a good administration, etc.