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The best quality a teacher can have in a school with a high farms rate is the ability to manage classroom behavior. His/her teaching skills can be mediocre because most of the day is spent managing behaviors so that's the most needed skill. When looking at high farms rate schools, ask about that first and academics second because sadly that's the priority for e teachers and admin as well. [/quote]

Sad, but you are absolutely right.  When kids come to school constantly shoving and hitting, the teacher needs to take control--or nothing gets done  I speak with the experience of a young teacher who began teaching in an extremely poor school.  My training had been in middle class--even lower middle class, but nothing prepared me for teaching in the projects.  Try working with a small group while the others are out of control.  It is not possible.  So, first, you have to teach the kids how to listen.  Not easy when they are not accustomed to it.  Then, you must teach them to work independently for five to ten minutes.  Again, this is a learned skill--not innate.  The most difficult skill to teach some of these kids?  How to keep their hands to themselves.  
Without classroom control--and I don't mean perfect silence--you can accomplish very little.  Some teachers are better than others.  I became a pretty good teacher--mostly as a result of the experience in poor schools.  I certainly learned a lot more about the learning process than I did in college or my colleagues in affluent schools.   
Most people have no idea.

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