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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the show but we need to understand that it’s pure fiction. [b]Look at how well behaved the kids are - it’s unrealistic for pretty much any school tbh[/b]
And a stab at the charter is part of it
Charters spring up everywhere public schools are failing because it’s the only way to let the kids who are ready to learn to actually learn and not just constantly suffer from behavior problems of other students [/quote]

This. The worst issues they’ve dealt with have been a kid who shows up late frequently, a kid who is obsessed with Bluey and brings it up in class too often, and I think one kid who had a pee accident? If these were your toughest moments with students, as a teacher, you won the lottery. At pretty much any public, but especially at a Title 1 school that likely has kids dealing with stuff likely to cause behavioral issues, like housing insecurity.

Talking about those issues would actually make the anti-charter argument stronger (charters are not set up to help kids who don’t have involved parents at home or who are dealing with serious challenges requiring social workers and other interventions). But it would make they show heavier and less fun, which is why they don’t touch it. There are lots of realistic things about the show but they focus on the realities of being a teacher in an urban public school. They aren’t portraying the family population very accurately, because they are focusing on the middle class families. A school like this would have a significant population of kids living in poverty and that would have a much bigger impact on the school than they show.[/quote]

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