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Reply to "Poll for Teachers. Your top 5 reasons for metro D.C poor performing schools."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The elephant in the room: poverty and low education level of the parents. [b]The administrators are not willing to face it head on[/b]. The teachers are supposed to be miracle workers. [/quote] More like they can't. You can't force someone raised in generational poverty to see a way out of it. You can't make people want better for their kids. You can't make people care about education, spend money better, devote more time to their kids. They keep trying to plug the holes on their end but there HAS to be a family-community-school synergy to produce successful, motivated, high achieving (or plain old achieving) students. This is why the higher SES schools will always do better and produce better students- they have parents and communities who actively care and work WITH the school. The school CANNOT do it alone. But in places like DC, they basically have to. [/quote]
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