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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Even as schools elsewhere have focused on issues like school funding, social justice and mental health in recent years, Mississippi schools like Hazlehurst have made academics their North Star.

“At the end of the day, our job is teaching. Their job is learning,” said Ms. Langston, who added that no matter what is going on in a child’s life, the classroom is the one thing she can control. “If we don’t meet that need, we have failed them.”

[b]This is absolutely journalism malpractice.  Nobody is disagreeing that academics is the North Star, but the first paragraph mde is sound like other states are "focusing" on something else.  [/b]

This is how America get divided, journalist's innate tendency to create drama and conflicts.   I am not blaming everything wrong in US to journalists, but let's say my view of the profession changed from the venerated fourth estate to the likes of a group of gossipers never left high school. [/quote]

Look no further than how FCPS has been spending its money.  Look at what the School Board spends its time on during their meetings.  Look at the lawsuits.  Look at the size of Nardos King's organization.  Look at One Fairfax.

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What have they done to focus on disadvantaged students other than plan to shift more affluent students into the struggling schools?

Whatever you are "looking" at, did FCPS lose focus on academics?  I don't think so.  Maybe focused more on academics of disadvantaged communities, and that's how you raise the performance of a school district.  Affluent families has resources for tutors and enrichments, and disadvantaged families only have the school.  [/quote]

Do you know what really helps disadvantaged students?  Good, direct instruction.  Start where they are and push and pull them as far as possible.  Throwing them into advanced classes unprepared is not the answer.  Exposing them to higher concepts is good--but you cannot hopscotch over the basics.
signed:
Been there and done that.

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"Do you know what really helps disadvantaged students?  Good, direct instruction. "  FCPS is not doing this?  "Throwing them into advanced class unprepared" is also "Good, direct instruction".  "Throwing them into advanced class unprepared" is also "academics is the North Star".   It is about different ways to help kids.

Many people complain about DEI by providing false choices.  Giving disadvantaged but proven smart kids some challenge is also focusing on academics.  You guys have the zero sum mentality, somehow giving someone something extra means taking it away from yours.  Focus on your children first. [/quote]

A confusing statement.

I posted earlier and said that kids should be exposed to higher concepts, but that you cannot hopscotch over basic skills.
I learned this when I taught extremely poor children.  And, yes, some were very smart, but basic skills cannot be ignored.   Some things have to be learned first.  And, if you do not understand that, I hope you are not a teacher.

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