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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools like the one in the article are trying to lower the suspension rates so misbehavior is often not dealt with appropriately and teachers are stuck with misbehaving kids. The schools are also trying to increase the graduation rates so teachers are under pressure to pass kids even if that means providing a packet to represent an entire quarter of work to a student who didn't bother to show up.

My former roommate taught at Ballou for 5 years before moving out of the city and did some of the following things: took groups of boys and girls separately out for pizza to talk to them about birth control options, visited students in the hospital who had been victims of gun violence, brought in snacks and lunches for kids who didn't have food, helped students secure public housing after being emancipated from negligent parents, hosted weekend study sessions  to help students pass exams and complete work in classes other than her own...the list goes on. I have no idea how she gave that much of herself but teachers can't be expected to last putting in that kind of time and emotional investment...especially when they are treated like crap by administrators and by DCPS in general.[/quote]

+1000 that's the way it goes, many teachers EOTP do this but demoralized when all they hear about is how wonderful schools and teachers are WOTP, also who thought that norming curricula at schools like Banneker and Deal makes sense when they are the anomaly most students are years below grade level in English and math. Where are the reading and math specialist, why is everyone rated on the same rubric for IMPACT, oh that's right - because admin don't know content so lets get rid of it it and rate teachers on being able to "get piggy with it" and have a happy class. Overall treatment of teachers at tough schools with high turn over is disgraceful  :twisted: [/quote]

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