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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love to hear from teachers. What are your top 5 reasons many metro D.C. schools are underperforming for so many years or have you noticed improvements?

State how many years you've been a teacher and whether it's  Elementary, Middle or High School.

Parents you can share your opinion but remember to be fair and objective. You are not with the students as much as teachers.

I'm just trying to understand if this is a funding issue ( will more money fix the problem): a poor leadership issue( school level, city or state level) or it's a political issue( doesn't it matter if it's a democratic vs republican city or state) or it's a socioeconomic issue ( the rich want  to stay away from the poor).

Thank you for your responses![/quote]

It's a low SES issue/[b]failure of parents to prepare their children for school [/b]issue

DC has over 70% poverty in schoolage population

When you have a school with over 40% poverty there are going to be major problems.  The only schools in DC that don't suck have less than 40% poverty.   PS this is true in Montgomery County Fairfax County, Arlington etc

School performance is directly related to SES

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Can you be more specific? I thought universal pre-k was supposed to take care of this problem. I'm not disagreeing with you, by the way. I'm just wondering what you mean by parents not preparing their kids for school.[/quote]

Headstart was supposed to be the great equalizer, but then we learned that birth to age 3 is a more important than initially believed. This is excerpted from

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/04/22/key-to-vocabulary-gap-is-quality-of.html

By the end of the study, more than 85 percent of the vocabulary, conversational patterns, and language complexity of the 3-year-olds had come from their families, and children of professionals had vocabularies more than twice as large as peers in families receiving welfare.A follow-up ...showed vocabulary gaps in preschool predicted 3rd grade gaps in language-test performance.

By age 3, a child's IQ was more closely related to the number of words he had heard than to any other factor, including parents' overall education or income level.

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