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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are being tasked with providing equal opportunity for students.  So, if you have underperforming students, it is part of your job to try and investigate what may be contributing to their lower performance.  Some real world examples.

Like the one teacher above, if you have someone who is not turning in assignments, rather than just grading them down, you should investigate and if the problem is that they don't have access to paper, pencils, and such, provide that from school supplies that you keep in the room.  If you don't have those supplies, see if you can get one from a child that has a bigger supply or asking if the school, PTA or parents might be able to contribute extra supplies to your classroom.

If you have a child underperforming and you find out that they are not registered for FARMS, but qualify and they may be underperforming because of not getting breakfast before school, you communicate with their family or you help the child/family to register for FARMS.

If you have a child who is not doing turning in assignments because they don't have a computer and can't always get to the library to use a public one, then you can help them contact the IT team for the school or school district to help them get a school district loaner or assigned device for them to use.  In our school district, this also includes families who don't have WiFi at home, and the district IT group can also provide a hotspot for the family to have a WiFi connection at home and the child doesn't have to go someplace with public WiFi to get access.

There are just a few scenarios, but you are supposed to ensure that if children are underperforming, that that is not due to having inequitable resources available to them, resources that can be provided to give them an outlet.

Another more extreme example (one that can't be duplicated in every school).  There was a story of a principal who found several kids were performing poorly because they did not always have access or could not always afford to do laundry and they were self-conscious and made fun of because of unwashed clothing.  The principal let it be known around that kids having that problem could bring their laundry to the school facilities where they laundered sports/gym supplies and do their laundry there.  The great guy even shelled out of his own pocket to keep a closet of laundry supplies that anyone was welcome to use.  Several students started performing much better when they had clean clothes and were no longer bullied for their unclean clothes.  In this case, it also helped decrease truancy, too.  Many of the kids who were bullied were just skipping school to avoid being made fun of because they didn't have clean clothes.

This is not the original story that I had read, but it's a similar situation:
[url]https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/health/iyw-school-laundry-room-trnd/index.html[/url][/quote]
This is awesome. Kudos to the people who do these kinds of things. [/quote]

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