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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you supposed to suddenly achieve the same or make the same incremental improvement? [/quote]

Achieve the same. We’re told we have low expectations if we dare to point out the very real elephant in the room. The kids aren’t understood or treated as humans by admin and central office (yet on the flip side we’re supposed to recognize and treat their trauma as a full time job without any real training while also managing behavior and actually instructing content as a full time job), only data points, which should be easy to manipulate if we only care enough or work hard enough. We just must not care enough or work hard enough for our students which is why their scores aren’t the same as Burning Tree’s  —title 1 teacher [/quote]

21:42 here. This is what we have been told. Apparently we aren't working hard enough. During our too frequent data meetings, we discuss particular students and every single one of the students not making enough progress has a reason why they aren't making enough progress. For example, serious attendance issues, probable special education needs and behavior issues. If we bring these up, we are told that we are making excuses. How can you teach a student who is rarely in school? What about one who is a frequent flier to the office for hurting students and teachers? How about a student who is eventually tested and found to have a borderline IQ? These students are not going to make the type of progress they are expected to make but the teachers are blamed for not doing enough for them. Nobody cares about the 95% of students who do make progress like the student who came in not speaking any English who was scared and crying all of the time who now can have a conversation with you and draws pictures about how much she loves school and her teachers. [/quote]

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