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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here: nowhere am I blaming the kids.
I am just saying - don’t put your kids there. 
No I am not assuming anything looking at skin color or whatever - I see how kids behave, in fact, they are almost all the same ethnicity.
I am sure the quiet kids who just sit their on their own most of the time doing their work are “succeeding”. They get good grades etc.
But they are missing on a full scale school experience with field trips, projects, hands on work etc. 
Because guess what! It is impossible to do hands on work with unruly kids. 
Also, the street smart kids put more naive, well behaving kids in trouble. They tell on them and the teacher who probably doesn’t want to be racist or classist punishes or scolds them. 
Kids who don’t speak Spanish are teased by Spanish speaking kids using unfamiliar terms.
I mean, I guess those kids benefit from having your kid in class, right?[/quote]

DO: This is just such awful advice coming from someone clearly new to education. Of course students of all levels can access hands on learning. In fact, your students are partially being unruly bc they aren’t able to access the material in the way you are trying to deliver it. It’s hard for a new teacher I get it, but I teach in a title 1 and we do nothing but hands on and engaging work. Ditch the lectures and try to shorten direct instruction — give the kids a chance to succeed.

If you would like some research based practices to get started, I’d recommend looking up the universal design for learning (UDL). They have TONS of free resources to help you adapt lessons to make them more accessible and engaging for ALL learners.

I also think you need to seriously look at the way you are talking about these kids. Unruly/street smart/etc tells me that you may have an implicit bias that you are not yet aware of. It makes me sad to see you sharing this as if you’re minimal experience is absolute [/quote]

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