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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Might as well also submit a truth that really shouldn't be all that surprising (but it seems some of you would nevertheless be surprised by it):  almost any "acclaimed" school, anywhere, is only acclaimed because a plurality of the students there would excel academically almost anywhere they went.  The key to acclaim is attracting (or collecting) the best students.

Low-achieving schools are low-achieving because a plurality of the students there are low-achieving, and they would achieve similarly lowly almost anywhere they went.

Teachers really have very little to do with it.

The test for a really well-organized, professionally-talented school is whether it can take a plurality of low-achieving students and make them good or better after a few years.  Neither Walls nor Wilson, imo, meets that test.[/quote]

Oh my goodness, please don’t say that.  Okay, I know everyone’s entitled to their opinion.  And what you say may be true to an extent.  But I think this really leads to complacency, and devalues the teaching profession...

....and I’ve got to say:  this year, my DC attends one of these schools, and I see at least a couple of the teachers doing that on a daily basis.  And I think a couple of the other teachers will at least making some headway.  So it is possible.

(Yes, I know anecdote isn’t data, and you used the word plurality, etc etc etc etc.  But it’s an amazingly beautiful thing to see when it happens.)[/quote]

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