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[quote=lenomdeplume]Assuming people want to hear the opinion of a recently departed DC teacher, the following link (to a DCUM blog post), explains why the "limo liberals" (and teachers!) leave DC public schools.

SPOILER ALERT (TL;DR): They are terrified over the ferocity of daily student violence in the schools and the indifference of the parents.  Here is are excerpts from the teachers explanation of why she quit. Parenthetical remarks, and CAPS, are my own.

"I AM NOT LEAVING BECAUSE ITS "TOUGH AS HELL".  THIS PLACE IS HELL."  (Is that clear enough for the apologists for violence in schools?)

"My (performance) evaluation is based on their test scores, but 90% (yes, NINETY PERCENT) are FIVE or SIX years below grade level.  They're working on basic subtraction in 10th grade Math...you can't put 28 of them in one class and expect any actual learning to occur.  I have 34 in some classes..."

"I am leaving because in the first week one teach had his arm dislocated by a student while another suffered a broken hand. They threatened to RAPE a female teacher after work.  One of my students war arrested IN MY CLASSROOM for fighting another student for "looking at him".

"The same day, another student was beaten unconscious in the classroom next door.  Students intentionally threw laptops from the laptop cart to the ground, shattering them, because "they didn't feel like reading".  (Not enough resources, right?)  All of these students are still enrolled...after a two day suspension, they returned with new shoes, new hairdos, and new lore among their peers."

They sit in their classes on their cell phones, they gamble, throw chairs, flipper tables in what our administration writes off as "attention seeking behavior" and, all throughout, this someone comes in to informally (?) observe and tell us how shitty of a job we are doing."

"I call parents everyday...FEW apologize...majority say something like "thats your problem" or "Ive washed my hands of my child" or "don't call me again".

(So if a survival instinct is something you possess, wouldn't you take your "limo" and remove YOUR child AND yourself?  dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/502513.page)

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