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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Well if a school is considered failing, maybe they should look at the teachers instead of handing out vouchers.
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as a teacher who worked in a "failing" school for 2 years, i have to say it is not necessarily the teachers' faults. (it possibly could be in some cases though)
in most failling schools, you have single parents who work who either can't or don't work with their children at home. the children usually have less structure and support from home than the kids in passing schools. so a teacher can teach to the best of her ability, but if the parents either can't, don't or refuse to work with their kids at home, those kids won't succeed as much. that leads to lower standardized test scores which leads directly to failing schools.
i now work in a school where the parents are extremely supportive, as well as wealthy, and the differences in the strides the kids make with encouragement from home is astounding.
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