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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]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. 
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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]

The bolded describes exactly what is going on. Student achievement has not improved since the old days and Rhee getting rid of "dead weight". There's just a lot of passing failing kids along and data manipulation going on. That's why the graduation rates may have soared but scores on standardized reading and math tests have not. Behavior has not improved. Schools simply no longer suspend or even deal with those issues so that on paper there's a lower suspension rate, which is supposed to correlate with a safer school with better behaved students.

You can replace teachers with younger, older, smarter, newer ones all day long. But you can't replace poor parents or ill-prepared, poorly mannered kids.[/quote]

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