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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what point will people admit no amount of money thrown at a school system will fix what is wrong with the city's population?[/quote]

Never?  [b]Educators love the idea that they can be heroes and that play the roles of both teacher and social worker for the neediest kids[/b], and politicians love the idea that desperately needed social work can be foisted on the schools, which is easier and cheaper than the level of family services really needed.[/quote]

i'm not sure how true this is. I loathe this part of my job and the expectation comes from the top. Many of us just want to teach, probably most of us, actually.[/quote]

PP here.  No doubt I overstated the issue!  But it exists, and strongly gor some.  I wish I could find a thread here from a few months back with several teachers talking-with satisfaction--about how important they are to taking care of the basic needs of some of their students.  I don't doubt that they are speaking the truth, and I don't doubt that the kids need the care!  But the system should be set up so that teachers are not the first in line to provide this care, and the people who love doing that work most should be social workers, not teachers.  But we've increasingly given schools those responsibilities.[/quote]

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