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[quote=Anonymous]DP.  Sigh.  You just don't get it.  I have an opinion that goes like this:

Has nothing to do with W's getting more resources (they don't).  MCPS already tips the scales to Title I's, Focus Schools, and the SS and Poolesville area as far as extra resources go.

And when teachers leave a Title I or Focus School it has nothing to do with money.  It's normally about the administration, covid, crime / safety, and whether they're getting through to the kids or not.  Ex. Teachers have it easier at a W because there are fewer kids out of control.

However, the main difference between schools are the parents.  Parents with the funds pay for tutoring, extracurriculars, etc.  Parents that are well educated stress education at home.

On the other hand, schools with parents on drugs, partying late on school nights, subjecting kids to abuse at home, leaving the kids outside after dark, in trouble with the law themselves - these are issues the teachers just can't deal with.

By all means - go ahead and bus or redistrict to bring "equity" to all schools.  Ship all the poor delinquent kids to the W's or wherever.  You know what's going to happen then?  For the academically inclined kids, everything will be fine.  For the violent kids, the fastest school-to-jail pipeline ever.  The rest, the meh kids, will just be isolated and shunned at the school.  Why?  It has nothing to do with race or poverty folks.  You can't force or mandate respect - it has to be earned.

If you put kids with mediocre grades and not much academic motivation at home into a class full of super competitive kids, it won't make the mediocre kids smarter - it will make them want to drop out of school altogether.  Most schools pretty much have the same material up until Middle School.  If the kids don't have the motivation to study evenings and weekends to be in Algebra by 7th on their own, do you really think you're doing a kid a favor by moving them into a different school?

Same goes with parents with resources.  Well-resourced parents protect their children with those resources.  Lawyers, lobbyists, private investigators, ads, news stories and whatever else it legally takes to protect their children from school safety issues or interfering with how their children are raised.

So don't blame the teachers for leaving if they don't want to deal with the B.S. plans written by the Central Office crackpots.  They know better than to drink the kool-aid.

Think I'm wrong?  Go ahead.  Sounds like a great idea.  I dare the board and the sup to do it.  Let's see what happens.[/quote]

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