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[quote=Anonymous]this was posted on the "teacher turnover" thread and is very very telling about why in class differentiation is a joke. I don't blame the teacher at all-this gap starts in Kindergarten and DCPS have such a low bar for promoting students each year. By middle school its all over:

"I was fired from DCPS due to my IMPACT score. It was my first year teaching. In all honesty, they should only hire teachers with +5 years of teaching experience for those low performing schools. I had no idea what I was doing. I came in ready to teach HS English only to find that 75% of my students were reading on a second grade level. How do you scaffold a 12th grade text down to that level? The behaviors were out of this world. I've never seen so many people walk off a job before. In the middle of class, people would just walk out and never come back.

If you can manage to be successful in that environment, there's a hefty payday waiting for you. I knew teachers who made well over six figures in addition to a $20k bonus every year. If you were like me, however, it makes sense that you'd leave or get fired. It reminds me of the old American Gladiators show. Most people couldn't compete, but every now and then you'd see one person come through and really put on a show. DCPS' mistake is thinking that they can teach the average person to run their gauntlet in just a year's time"[/quote]

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