Once again, when anyone disagrees with him, Michael A decides to call
that person a racist, and a segregationist.
He doesn't seem to feel any desire to engage in answering my question
which was to ask "how do we get teachers to WANT to take on the
challenge of high-poverty schools?" Name-calling meets his needs
more.
Nevertheless, I would still like to see some discussion of how
teachers could be made to want to take on this challenge. And I'd
like to see the school system do this by leveling UP, not leveling
down.
For what it's worth, our family uses a high-poverty school (Jefferson)
that does have a cadre of teachers with a lot of team spirit, who seem
to work together admirably well. Saying this may lead to another
outburst of name-calling from Michael A., but: it is this cohesive
team of experienced teachers that I would fight to resist having be
smashed and scattered to the winds. I see that Jefferson was omitted
from Michael's statistics:
total hisp af-am white
575 296 180 70
51% 31% 12%
Average teacher years of experience, 11.9
Although in the Uptown area, Jefferson has more than the average of
students eligible for free/reduced lunch, which makes it a
high-poverty school.
This seems to suggest to me that it IS possible to have a school where
teachers will want to stay, even when it's a high-poverty school.
--
Robert P. Goldman
ECCO
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