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[quote=Anonymous]On the middle schools - my kid's at one that's not "acceptable" to the moms here.

The teachers are fine. Only had one teacher that was objectively not good. The trouble is that the kids aren't succeeding with the subject matter. Whether that's because of past trauma, present challenges, difficulty being a 11-14 year-old of any kind, anywhere, learning difficulties of some kind - whatever the case, the problem isn't that the teachers or school "lack quality" it's that the kids with few exceptions need exceptional intervention if we really expect them to get to the level of, say, passing PARCC.

So I wish people would talk about this in a way that aligns with the real challenges. From what I've seen, being blunt, it's not that the teachers or schools suck, it's that they're chock full of STUDENTS WHO SUCK AT SCHOOL.

While this is for reasons that are typically highly justified, it creates huge challenges for these teachers and limited bandwidth for kids who aren't struggling or have (I'll be equal-opportunity-mean-spirited) deficits that aren't a result of poverty.

So I think people need to be honest - there are some of us who are crypto-racist and hardass meritocrats, etc., but I think many of us more fair-minded folks just want our kids to be in schools where the teachers aren't getting all their bandwidth sucked away dealing with students who are shitty at school for whatever reason.

Maybe these need a gimmick, "cohorts" or "honors classes" or "schools for those who didn't fail last year's PARCC" or whatever. I think there would be a huge hunger for charters that aren't BASIS grind-til-you-die but instead are just aimed at kids who aren't already behind when they arrive in X grade.

What would you call this?[/quote]

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