New TA here: please don’t send your kids to high poverty schools if you can avoid it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I sort of hate that you work with children. Your post comes off so condescending.

Plus the whole "I don't work in the DC area but I am expert on DC area schools" shut up.

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone do what the threat title is telling them not to. It's like saying "Don't inject yourself with thalidomide. We know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone do what the threat title is telling them not to. It's like saying "Don't inject yourself with thalidomide. We know.

Not true. I lived in Alexandria and there were many idealistic parents looking forward to sending their children to one of the lowest ranked elementary schools not only in Alexandria but the entire Commonwealth. I attended poor schools and managed to convince my wife we weren't going to expose our children to all the issues with poverty. There's a reason Great Schools caused everyone with money to cluster in the same neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone do what the threat title is telling them not to. It's like saying "Don't inject yourself with thalidomide. We know.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone do what the threat title is telling them not to. It's like saying "Don't inject yourself with thalidomide. We know.

+1

That is so offensive on so many levels. I am willing to put up with a lot of crap in my district just to keep my child from going to school with your kids because you are teaching them to be awful human beings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know that UMC schools also have disruptive kids and they come with entitled parents who will come into school and go full Karen if you try to discipline them in the slightest.

Well if there are disruptive kids in both high and low SES schools, why does it matter if we integrate them then?

Great idea. Let’s integrate the disruptive kids from high the high and low SEC into one. Likewise, let’s integrate all the kids that are ready, willing, and have grade level ability to learn all together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue is we need better teachers and school staff. We go where there is affordable housing that is not a stretch...

Unfortunately teachers are not a stand-in for parents. Kids spend 6 hours a day in school, the other 18 hours spent in the way parents setup. You can have the most dedicated teachers in the world but if the student is not invested in learning and classwork, the teacher's talents and efforts are wasted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know that UMC schools also have disruptive kids and they come with entitled parents who will come into school and go full Karen if you try to discipline them in the slightest.

Well if there are disruptive kids in both high and low SES schools, why does it matter if we integrate them then?

Great idea. Let’s integrate the disruptive kids from high the high and low SEC into one. Likewise, let’s integrate all the kids that are ready, willing, and have grade level ability to learn all together

Why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't a teachers assistant a job that doesn't even require a college degree? OP are you a college student? If not you have no business critiquing anyone on this subject.

seriously. You're not even a teacher. You stepped into a room and immediately decided that these children are less than

[Anonymous]

OP - please get a different job. Teaching is not for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - please get a different job. Teaching is not for you

She is a TA. These jobs are impossible to fill even in "good" school districts. Forget bad ones. The schools have to take whoever they can get. You are lucky if the TA even speaks English as a first language. Most of the subs in our school don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is the most racist thing I’ve ever seen on DCUM.

Someone hasn’t been here very long!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I sort of hate that you work with children. Your post comes off so condescending.

Plus the whole "I don't work in the DC area but I am expert on DC area schools" shut up.

Surprised my topic resurfaced. I never said I was an expert on DC schools, but I bet high poverty schools have a lot in common everywhere. Ours have a lot of Hispanic students, DC ones have many black/AA students, that’s the difference but does it really matter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - please get a different job. Teaching is not for you

She is a TA. These jobs are impossible to fill even in "good" school districts. Forget bad ones. The schools have to take whoever they can get. You are lucky if the TA even speaks English as a first language. Most of the subs in our school don't.

Speaking English as first language doesn’t mean to speak it correctly or know anything about child development.
Look, I am actually kind to my students. But I can’t keep my eyes closed to all the things that go on in my school. I am hoping I am assigned to a different one next year, but this one is where the need for TAs is greatest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue is we need better teachers and school staff. We go where there is affordable housing that is not a stretch...

Unfortunately teachers are not a stand-in for parents. Kids spend 6 hours a day in school, the other 18 hours spent in the way parents setup. You can have the most dedicated teachers in the world but if the student is not invested in learning and classwork, the teacher's talents and efforts are wasted.

I actually think that having a 1:1 mentor would help those kids tremendously, but it’s just not realistic. Heck, even having a mentor for every 5 students could move the needle.