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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a very affluent school and we have the same problem (incredibly disruptive groups of students who take up all the teachers time).  The high flyers get ignored, as do those on grade level (this is most of the students in our school - IGNORED). It is the disruptive ones, and those that need tons of interventions and help that get all the attention.  Their parents are a combination of entitled (not my little angel) and in complete denial (you just need to be nicer to her - she never behaves this way at home therefore it must be something you are doing to her at school) about their children's issues.[/quote]

Except at  the affluent schools, vast majority of students continue to meet grade level standards year after year, despite the couple disruptive students.  So either they aren’t getting ignored, or parents are making up all the lack of teaching at home.

The low income schools continue to fail to meet grade level standards for majority of their students year after year.  So either the teacher isn’t teaching them or they are unable to learn. [/quote]

It’s not the teachers. [/quote]

It's not the teachers and it's not that the kid's can't learn. My district is 85% low income. From a young teacher friend of mine. She is the sole teacher, no aid or support person, with a class of 23
8 kids can sit still and follow directions, if given independent work they will sit mostly quietly and complete it
5 kids are newcomers to the US with basically no english, because they aren't in an EL classroom they are supposed to be getting additional language support but they aren't (district was sued about this by the DOJ)
3 kids are severely disruptive cannot sit still or follow directions, will wander out of the classroom, hit other kids, etc
5 kids can follow directions and are ready to learn when the classroom is calm but easily get off track when others are being disruptive
2 just showed up a month ago and are dealing with that disruption, new class, new curriculum, new rules and could use additional help
0-4 extra kids from other classes of any grade. Since the district doesn't have enough subs, when a teacher is out the class is broken up and sent to other classes. This is so common that in the teacher's contract they get a per diem for these extra students.

With that group you need extra staff and resources that do not exist in our district[/quote]

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