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[quote=Anonymous]When I was 22, I taught in a school like this, and I thought similarly to the OP.

20 years later, I recognize how much of that was subconscious bias and lack of empathy. It was easier to blame the parents for not trying hard enough than to understand all the ways the system is stacked against people from their very first breath. I also accepted the good school/bad school paradigm . . . I was teaching at a "bad school," and I wanted to get to a "good school." With my UMC upbringing and my elite private college, I was just not understanding or accepting of people who had different life experiences.

Anyway, this advice is terrible. Research shows that taking kids out of hypersegregated schools and putting them in integrated schools brings their scores ways up, while the privileged students' scores are not affected. It is much more effective than throwing more money at under-resourced schools. I mean, think about it, how many teachers bring attitudes like OP's to teaching in these schools? Slightly higher salaries or lower class sizes are not going to make as much of an impact. We need to divorce school funding from property taxes and start paying teachers like the professionals they are, and we need a cultural shift to value schooling and integrated communities as a common good, not as a commodity to hoard.

OP, honestly, that your response to seeing the struggles of CHILDREN is to suggest that they should be further isolated, cast off, and forgotten about . . . I'm sure you are tired and burnt out, but please reconsider your "solution" to the horrible conditions we allow innocent children to attend school in. We should be ashamed. The answer is not turning a blind eye.[/quote]

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