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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I agree with the original thread title. Of course, it is impossible to turn around a failing school- by only looking at the school. Failing schools are often in communities with failing- well everything. Failing job rates, failing health care, failing at providing safe stable housing for kids. Failing in providing prenatal care. I am NOT suggesting that we have to address all these issues- but this is why schools in 'poor areas' fail. (For someone that will bring up charters, ok go ahead... talk about how the charters work with the same kids (they don't) and get the same results (they don't). You either have to embrace the entire community, think Harlem Childrens Zone in NYC, or throw your hands up and wait for the community to improve itself. 
All kids want to learn, they do. And people go into teaching because they love kids. Sure there are some exceptions, but every job has terrible people- who eventually leave the profession.
   If you want to fix failing schools schools- help the community. If you do not, and that is ok, just walk away.[/quote]

Sorry, almost all DC charters work with very disadvantaged populations. Several do not have 18-yr. olds attending 9th grade as a condition of their parole. That part is true. [/quote]

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