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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may shed some light as to why so many teachers are leaving Justice HS, as Eric Welch is a long-time teacher at Justice and is seeing how current practices there are harming students. It would be not surprising if other teachers with similar reactions are looking for opportunities where the pressure to pass or graduate students who just aren't ready isn't as great.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/15/pandemic-easy-teaching-hurting-students/[/quote]

It is such a difficult balance at low-SES schools. Yes, the system could take a "tough love" approach and have high expectations for kids who are 17 and don't know English or are missing parents or have no formal education whatsoever (take your pick for the disadvantage), but there is no way you take an old teenager and make them meet high school standards created for native-born English speakers in such a short time span. This would only lead to drop outs as they'll likely choose to work at age 18 instead.

The real solution has to be to have different minimum graduation requirements for students who enter the US school system at a significantly delayed stage. Their statistics shouldn't count in the same pool as those who have been in the US education system since grade school. GEDs shouldn't hurt the ratings of the school and principal. That way, administrators won't be inclined to cheat the system for their appraisal. 
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A very legitimate concern is whether the relaxation of the requirements and expectations for the high-needs community spills over into what is expected for all the students at a school.

It's a whipsaw at a school like Justice that is simultaneously pushing kids into IB English classes yet sending out the message that teachers need to find a way to graduate kids at all costs. [/quote]

I hear you. Those were probably good intentions but bad implementation. If VDOE had once upon a time separated their published graduation statistics into "traditional" and "non-traditional" student groups, we would probably not see some of our schools having such poor unsalvageable reputations as they do now. [/quote]

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