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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that THE ROLE OF SCHOOLS IS TO EDUCATE CHILDREN.

Do you understand that [b]THAT CAN'T HAPPEN AMONG POOR CHILDREN UNTIL POVERTY IS ADDRESSED[/b]?

And that TEACHERS CAN'T OVERCOME POVERTY ANY MORE THAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS CAN, SO [b]SHOULDN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE[/b] FOR ITS EFFECT ON THEIR STUDENTS?
 
That if you REFUSE TO SEE THAT, then you are HURTING CHILDREN while FEELING SUPERIOR and FEATHERING YOUR OWN NEST?  assuming that you work for DCPS, that is.

And frankly, I don't hear parents defending DCPS leadership anymore.  Even if they were once hopeful, they've seen  that it's not been successful.

Unlike DCPS employees, parents' primary interest in DCPS is  not collecting a paycheck or clinging to a failed ideology.  Parents care about  their kid's welfare first.[/quote]

Really?!  So the argument here is that poor kids can't learn from good teachers OR excel in school via self-motivation?  Should we just throw in the towel, then?! While child poverty has been associated with lower academic achievement, I would ask you to please cite one study that shows that [i]all[/i] children living in poverty are under-performing.  Teachers SHOULD take responsibility for all of their students, regardless of socio-economic status.  It is an educator's ethical responsibility to take each student as a whole child (family situation, socio-economic status, culture, customs, and background included) and discover the genius within.  Obviously teachers can't save the world, but to infer that a child is simply uneducable because he/she is poor is giving up, and it's just plain insulting.  If a teacher doesn't believe in his/her under-served/privileged student, who will??[/quote]

No - that's your argument -- that anyone who mentions the role of childhood poverty is throwing in the towel. It's your excuse for not listening and going into the reform diatribe in which you come out caring about all children and anyone who comments on poverty is a dolt.

Yes - of course teachers should take responsibility for all their students, but what does that mean?  making them all learn at high levels all the time? impossible - all kids aren't alike, irrespective of poverty level.  It's a total abnegation of responsibility to heap an impossible burden on one piece of the education equation.

Thanks for laying out your thoughts though -- it helps to see the depths of your indoctrination.

Nobody but you is inferring that  poor children are ineducable -- it's the trick of people like you to shut out anything that doesn't fit in your narrow, indoctrinated view of education. I hope there are not too many people like that left at DCPS.[/quote]

Blah, blah, blah.  Yet another dodge.

Any time anyone mentions holding teachers to any kind of standard, you come back with platitudes about teachers should "take responsibility fr their students" but that should never in any case be held accountable, even in part, for their learning.

Everyone understands that poverty has a negative effect on learning.  Everyone understands that teachers aren't the only piece of the puzzle.  But everyone but you seems to understand that there are good teachers and bad teachers.  And that it's the responsibility of a school district to ensure that good teachers are rewarded, and ineffective teachers are encouraged to go do something else.

Of course, when anyone brings that up, you just start yelling about how DCPS needs to end world poverty before even one poor child can learn.  Pathetic.[/quote]

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