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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an experienced teacher who has friends who work in a Title 1 middle school in FCPS. I’m shocked at how academically low so many of the students are, even kids who have been in FCPS since K or 1st grade. There needs to be a concerted effort to get kids to attend school and behave while there, and that isn’t happening. I know that a rigorous behavior modification program will work, with clear guidelines and rewards and sanctions for not behaving appropriately, but schools are left to try these things themselves, and there isn’t buy-in from the students and staff. Kids in low SES families will work for food items, for personal hygiene items, and other teen items that their families can’t buy for them. There is money to set up programs with these items as goals, and kids will behave to get them. They will not work for stickers or cute pencils. Once they get a taste of success, they will start to see success and have hope and commit to school, for the most part. Many of the kids at this school that I am familiar with score poorly on IQ tests and are at a second or third grade reading level, despite years of American schooling. They need to be taught in very small groups and not be forced to sit in general education classrooms where they have no understanding of the content. They need basic skills and vocational education so they can be good citizens and get jobs, but every day in school they feel like failures. I’m by no means lumping all Title 1 kids together, but there’s a group that is not being served by our present system.[/quote] So you want to basically create an entire parallel education system for them? Who is going to pay for that?[/quote]
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