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[quote=Anonymous]While I am not the original poster I can't resist answering this dumb, inflamatory question.  There are kids in these schools who are not prepared to learn.  They are disruptive, disengaged and make teaching hell.  Give them an alternative that will engage them.  Stop wasting our tax money trying to educate those who don't want it.   The world doesn't need lawyers only, it needs plumbers, taxi drivers, and so on.  Why do you want to spend dollars, discourage teachers, and make students who want to learn unhappy by [b]making someone who'd rather be a plumber learn Advanced History 10[/b]?

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MCPS teacher here. The problem is that the disruptive kids don't want to be lawyers. I teach in a W feeder school. The disruptive kids want to be lawyers. Or at least they act that way because they argue with teachers over everything like seat changes or whether an essay can be emailed before midnight rather than turned in during class.

I used to teach downcounty. The kids who wanted to be plumbers or electricians or beauticians were not disruptive. Disengaged? Yes, sometimes. But mostly, they were biding time until they could go to Edison.[/quote]

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