How naive of the LAT. I know enough teachers to realize that the best teachers will quit if reassigned. Teachers get treated like crap in minority schools. Outrageous behavior, namecalling, blaming race for everything.
The best teachers will merely seek employment elsewhere. And the suburbs will gladly take them in.
And as pointed out in other posts, you can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn, whose culture isn’t about education and achievement.
The stupidity of the Times continues to amaze.
“...you can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn, whose culture isn’t about education and achievement.”
Ditto.
When a culture says that learning is ‘race treason’; when black educators call for ebonics because standard English is too difficult; when districts in Florida tell teachers not to correct students’ grammar because doing so is ‘racist’—
then you’re not going to have students who learn.
And no amount of additional money or better teachers is going to help in that situation.
Until the parents take responsibility for their children, there is no cure for this mess.
Good teachers want to teach where they will be valued. I am a former teacher. I did student teaching at an inner city school in Durham, NC, and taught in private schools. I felt more appreciated at the inner city school, but then again, this was nearly 30 years ago.
The problem today is not so much less intrinsic ability of the students, but a lack of desire to learn, born of parents’ lack of appreciation for education. Until that changes no good teacher with other choices will opt for teaching where he is banging his head against a brick wall.