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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janney teachers are not prepared to take at-risk kids.   The only reason Janney is high performing is the students come from families that are highly educated.   The teachers are average at best and many have serious classroom management issues in the case when there is a child who is disruptive.    Yes - the environment is better than most schools across DCPS - but it is not the end all be all.[/quote]

Cause you rich privileged kids are never disruptive??? Try again. [/quote]

You think rich elementary aged kids with two parents are as prone to behavior issues as at risk kids with impoverished home lives, a uneducated parent and society as a whole crapping on them every chance they get.  I would say “try again” to be cute but I doubt you can do better. Look at suspension rates for poor dc kids and you can rationalize all you want but it is magnitudes higher and the administration is black so what exactly is your excuse? [/quote]

Of course rich privileged kids are disruptive. But there aren't gangs pushing them on to worse and worse behavior on school grounds. There aren't older cousins and friends telling them it's ok to smack a teacher for disrespecting you. There aren't neighborhood crews to walk through in the morning to get to school that make "safe passage" a joke. They are not coming to school hungry, hangry and without the necessary supplies. They aren't coming to school without help for their homework or extra tutoring. And it's not all about behavior and discipline -- try teaching in a class where students are from 1-2 grade levels above to 4-5 grade levels below. Try teaching in middle school, where there are kids on a Kindergarten level and some ready for high school in the same class. Or teaching high school, where there are kids who are non-readers. I'm sure teachers at Janney are good but the teachers at my school who deal with so much more are great -- and their measure is in more than just test scores.

I think this thread is rather ridiculous -- opening up Janney and other schools is not going to solve our at-risk performance problem. We need deep investment and more resources to serve at-risk kids. Even though I think it's ridiculous, I really wish DC would just try it once -- sending a majority of students with significant needs to the "great" schools and let's see how that works out. [/quote]

I think the more interesting experiment would be to flip the teachers. Send the Ward 3 elementary teachers to teach in the lowest 10 elementary schools and vice versa. [/quote]

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