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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is we need better teachers and school staff.  We go where there is affordable housing that is not a stretch...[/quote]

Op here. The teachers I work for all seem to be juggling so many things and doing a great job at it. They are pretty rigid in terms of discipline but I know where they are coming from. I would say each class needs a couple permanent instructional assistants for these kids to have a semblance of normal educational experience that kids in “normal” schools have [/quote]

The educational system needs to adjust to the reality that if you want kids in high poverty/high mobility/high EL schools to succeed you need at least one adult for every 8 kids and you need to lower that ratio if you have a class that is exceptionally high need. In my city the highest income public school has 40% non-low-income students and that school is an outlier because in most of our schools over 80% of students come from families with low income. Every single public school and public charter in the city has a majority of low-income students.

I know grads of every single school who have been successful in college and careers. Kids can succeed academically in the right environment, but the powers that be won't invest in the things that actually make kids successful, instead we have the endless search for the easy fix and that's never going to happen.

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The high poverty schools can’t work. For most kids, their academic trajectory is set by 2nd grade. What a mess.[/quote]

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