Reply to Two concepts should be banned in discussing boundary studies

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Two concepts should be banned in discussing boundary studies"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing is unfair about some schools having high farms rate and others having low farms rate.  Everyone makes decisions based on their priorities.[/quote]

The bigger issue is the disparities in offerings between the schools.[/quote]

I think the biggest issue is the lack of resources to support students living in poverty. At the high school level there is no significant funding to address the learning challenges associated with poverty. Extra money does help. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/how-money-matters-factsheet

These high poverty high schools really are stretched thin for supporting low income kids. It would be easier if the high needs kids weren't so concentrated in certain schools. For example, we know experienced teachers are more effective and that wealthy schools attract more experienced teachers. It is better for low income kids to be in schools with more experienced teachers. The most cost effective way to do that is to reduce racial and economic segregation in schools.

Of course as a result of housing discrimination and exclusionary zoning in Montgomery County, it is hard not to concentrate poverty in certain schools, but it's crazy to me that the BOE isn't even considering some obvious ways to reduce segregation and is in fact only looking at boundary options that increase segregation.[/quote]

The problem is the fact that experienced teachers don’t want to deal with the behavior problems.  And they don’t want to be blamed for low test scores that they have no control over.  Most often the county has to use contractors to fill spots in schools that nobody will work in (and they get paid a ton more than mcps pays).  The only people who take the jobs in the lower income schools are the new graduates that don’t have any other options. And they only stay for 1-2 years and leave as soon as they possibly can. 
I worked in a very low income school in another state during student teaching. The stories I could tell you-it was pretty unbelievable. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics