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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone agrees the problem is the stress that struggling students - either behavior or academic, but usually they are the same student - put on the teachers and the system as a whole.  Every teacher in a title I school can tell you that (like me).

But maybe there is no solution because the problem is not education to begin with.  The problem is poverty.  But instead of addressing the real problem, we pretend somehow problems that are brought into the schools BY poverty are somehow created in the schools, and that therefore the schools can fix them.

We can't.  Schools don't cause the problem, and they can't be the solution. Address poverty, and we'll be fine.  But that would be a lot harder than scapegoating teachers.[/quote]

Part of the problem is poverty and lack of resources. But as far as I know, there’s no society at any point in time or anywhere in the world that got rid of poverty. The issue is that kids in those schools can’t wait, a few years spent in a low performing school and their education is ruined. If they get one-two grade behind in English and math, most will play catch up for the rest of the time they are in school, and likely never recover, likely will never be ready for college. We accept this too easily, and we do nothing to remedy their situation.

Teachers don’t have the personal power to change anything, and in general people don’t fault individuals, unless they come to this forum with a bad attitude of “you just want free babysitting”, “go to private if you don’t like it”, “all we are required to do is the bare minimum”.

The “teacher scapegoating” as you call it, is actually dissatisfaction with our educational system, with the teacher union being at the center. Both because the union fought hard to keep schools closed even when evidence suggested otherwise, but also because its involvement in politics (in my view they should stay out of politics) and culture war (e.g. CRT, again they should just stay out of the controversial topics).[/quote]

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