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So how do we get and keep good teachers at those schools?  Is there merit to a pay differential to encourage teachers to go there? "Hazard pay", if you will?  Do we give those teachers one less hour a day of teaching and replace it with planning, to help build stronger lessons/prevent burnout?  Or do we write off those kids on some level as lost causes, and just be okay with teachers moving across the county when positions open?[/quote]

I've taught in these schools.   What I feel would help would be to have more non-instructional staff members to help handle the social and emotional needs of the students.  Double or triple the number of professional school counselors, or perhaps a couple social workers, an additional assistant principal, more parent liasons.  We need more staff not assigned to daily instruction who can be available to intervene when kids get upset with each other (before it turns into a fight), to deal with bullying, to help be sure kids are hooked up to needed social services, to organize parent outreach, to make the follow up phone calls, to meet with kids before school and check in with them.  To handle more of the emotional stuff so as teachers we can handle more of the academic stuff.[/quote]

Or cut our losses. This sounds like a ridiculous strategy.[/quote]

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