Quote:It's not just the athletes.  Teachers are being forced to advance kids to keep the stats up so their school doesn't get a failing grade.  The new superintendent is making all sorts of changes to the rules that make it appear on paper that things are getting better in the public school system when the reality is it's getting worse.

 

On top of that, teachers are not permitted to discipline the kids.  DCPS has eliminated the schools they send problem students to, forcing schools to keep these kids, and if they're causing issues, they're supposed to send them to the library for basically a time out.  One teacher I know quite well teaches at an elementary school in a decent area of town.  She had a kid who was nothing but trouble.  Refused to take tests or to do anything.  He'd tell her where she could go, and what she could stick where when she got there.  The last day of school, he stabbed her with a pencil.  This is a 2nd grader.  Despite not taking half his tests, he was advanced to the 3rd grade.

Well Said and So So True...


My best friends wife has been an teacher for the past thirty years. What you described is spot on. She once taught at an troubled school (no names mentioned) where the staff refused to break up fights in fear of retaliation. We put students in Fail Mode and is comfortable in watching them Fail...


ALL FOR SCHOOL RATINGS...


Go Figure...


NH3...

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