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I'm the PP of the first quote.  Some of these are good comments.  You're right; my original statement was too broad.

Some are sort of silly and likely facetious: improve student body, cheat.  Some of the others make sense, but are not really things DCPS can feasibly change: more involved parents, more two-parent families, better nutrition, less violence.  But some are good ideas: smaller class sizes, improved curriculum, better support.

But I still think that terminating ineffective teachers is one valid way to improve the situation.  Maybe we can argue about whether IMPACT accurately identifies ineffective teachers.  But how can you really be against removing ineffective teachers?  How does protecting ineffective teachers make sense?[/quote]

The silly facetious comments unfortunately reflect what DCPS was doing - trying to improve scores by recruiting more high SES families and by cheating.

I know no one who is against removing ineffective teachers - here or anywhere.  What's doubtful and in fact unproven, is that large numbers of ineffective teachers are the cause of poor performance in DCPS and that a draconian system like IMPACT is needed to identify them.

Considering that in DCPS, as in schools across the country, achievement is related to socio-economic status,  to ignore this is insane -- unless, of course the goal here is to fire teachers, irrespective of its effect on student learning.[/quote]

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