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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a similar story to OPs except my experience is slightly different. I’ve worked with mediocre teachers and exceptional teachers in both environments.  I found that some teachers gave less when I was in the school with high poverty and less parent involvement. It was like they gave up and felt nothing would make a difference. They didn’t stay after school because they knew most students would not come and parents would not return calls or emails.  They taught to the minimum SOL standards.

For the past 5 years I’ve been at a school with high parent involvement and high achieving students. Teachers will often show up early, stay hours after and are always meeting to discuss remediation and enrichment.  The SOLs are not a concern but they are always discussing new ways to teach the content. [/quote]

This ^^^  has been my experience too.  Completely the opposite of what OP is seeing.  But maybe it's b/c I am in middle school.  I spent 15 years in a high poverty, low achieving middle school.  I was surrounded by some of the laziest, most incompetent teachers I've ever seen.  They were hiding in our school knowing that when the kids failed, they could just blame the poverty and lack of parental involvement for the failure rather than themselves.  The administration was too incompetent to do anything about it so the few good teachers we would get would leave after awhile because they were tired of admin being so clueless and doing nothing to get rid of the dead weight.

Now, like others, I work at a school closer to home.  I left that previous school because I got tired of watching the administration fail so spectacularly.  The year I left, the principal got the boot for being unable to raise SOL scores and a new one came in.  Things are no better. The teachers are still not held accountable.  But the school I'm at now is one of the ones where the kids come from middle to upper class homes and pretty much always pass the SOLs.  I've seen better teaching here and more passion among the staff than I ever did at my last school.  Don't get me wrong, we've definitely had some duds.  But the difference between my last school and this one is that if you suck here, admin basically asks you to leave.  [/quote]

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