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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are public high schools in DC where less than 5% of kids operate at grade level and in some subject, no kid operates at grade level. The teachers at these schools have only decades of failure to show for their time there. And yet they get paid $120k+ and even get raises. Take a geometry teacher who has worked at a school for a decade during which time not one student was proficient in geometry. She would have made close to a million dollars, w/o teaching any student anything. These teachers have essentially made careers out of stealing money from DC taxpayers. [/quote]

I don't disagree that there are some serious failings in public schools, but if you think the *high school teachers* are to blame for no kids in high school operating at grade level, you are seriously mistaken.  Those numbers mean that the wheels fell off some time before 5th grade (and therefore in multiple feeder schools), and there's no possible way for a teacher to bring 25 kids (starting from different failing points) up to sepeed in a year.[/quote]

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