How to save inner city schools.

[Meathead]

I hope you're all happy together.

 

[Unkotare]

I worked in inner city schools in Phila. Teachers unions single mothers no father are the main cause of poor public schools. Private schools do a much better job and cost less.

You know because...soccer...

 

[Unkotare]

...Private schools do a much better job and cost less.

Private schools charge tuition to families directly and can pick and choose who to accept. Public schools are required by law to accept anyone who turns up in the district and are funded almost entirely from local property taxes.

 

[DGS49]

Private schools charge tuition to families directly and can pick and choose who to accept. Public schools are required by law to accept anyone who turns up in the district and are funded almost entirely from local property taxes.

So you should do everything possible to get your kid into a private or parochial school.

In my personal case, our neighborhood schools are exemplary. We moved to our current location in order to qualify for those schools. In fact, the percentage of kids from the local schools going to college is up to the percentage of posh private schools in the area.

But it did turn him into a godless heathen, so there's that.

 

[fncceo]

How to save inner city schools​

Turn every one of them into a fast food and janitorial services training program….

… a strong back is a terrible thing to waste.

 

[Genevieve]

Parents often get in the way of their children's education. Neither of my parents regarded our education as important. Neither of my parents ever asked to see my report card or asked how I was doing in school.

There is really not much a teacher can do when that happens, but sometimes a good teacher can be a catalyst for learning in a student even when his parents don't care. As a teacher, child of teachers, and mother of a teacher..... I can tell you it's heartbreaking for teachers who care, and most do care.

 

[Unkotare]

There is really not much a teacher can do when that happens, but sometimes a good teacher can be a catalyst for learning in a student even when his parents don't care. As a teacher, child of teachers, and mother of a teacher..... I can tell you it's heartbreaking for teachers who care, and most do care.

You can't just wait for parents to be involved. You have to be proactive and reach out to keep the parents as involved as they can be.

 

[Genevieve]

You can't just wait for parents to be involved. You have to be proactive and reach out to keep the parents as involved as they can be.

Yes. That's a good start.

 

[Hafar1014]

Private schools charge tuition to families directly and can pick and choose who to accept. Public schools are required by law to accept anyone who turns up in the district and are funded almost entirely from local property taxes.

The private schools still do a better job even with the same demographics. Many specialize in children with problems. They also cost less.

 

[SweetSue92]

There is really not much a teacher can do when that happens, but sometimes a good teacher can be a catalyst for learning in a student even when his parents don't care. As a teacher, child of teachers, and mother of a teacher..... I can tell you it's heartbreaking for teachers who care, and most do care.

Yes, and good learning changes lives.

But most schools have been swept up in the mental health/therapized wave which is anything but helpful. In schools it's called "SEL" and "trauma-informed". It's bunk.

 

[Hafar1014]

Yes, and good learning changes lives.

But most schools have been swept up in the mental health/therapized wave which is anything but helpful. In schools it's called "SEL" and "trauma-informed". It's bunk.

Schools have become the mental hospitals for children and they dont have the training to deal with these problem kids. Violent children are kept in school when they should be expelled and put in residential treatment

 

[sparky]

Throwing $$$ at 'issues' doesn't always solve them ~S~

 

[SweetSue92]

Schools have become the mental hospitals for children and they dont have the training to deal with these problem kids. Violent children are kept in school when they should be expelled and put in residential treatment

100% correct. I believe the public sentiment is changing on this too, and thank God. By that I mean: having a diagnosis or and IEP etc is no longer a license to be violent and disruptive to the education of all.

It's about time--time and past.

 

[initforme]

Single mothers no father and democrats control of public schools is the problem. Vouchers and school choice is the solution.

Schools have become the mental hospitals for children and they dont have the training to deal with these problem kids. Violent children are kept in school when they should be expelled and put in residential treatment

If vouchers are accepted those kids cannot be turned away. If they apply they get in.

 

[Unkotare]

The private schools still do a better job even with the same demographics. ...

Not the same.

 

[Unkotare]

...They also cost less.

Not for the individual families of those attending.

 

[Unkotare]

...Many specialize in children with problems. ....

And they still choose from among those students. While you have been kicking your little pink soccer ball around I have worked with students no private school would accept. Not the same.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, and good learning changes lives.

But most schools have been swept up in the mental health/therapized wave which is anything but helpful. In schools it's called "SEL" and "trauma-informed". It's bunk.

Giving a shit about what is going on in a student's life that results in certain behavior is not "bunk," it's teaching. You teaching 'Three Blind Mice' on the recorder to six year olds is about one step above soccer boy claiming to be an education expert. I have students with no food, working full-time, getting shot at on the way home, or flat-out homeless. If you think that's not going to affect the ability to learn, you need to shut up and go back to practicing the triangle.

 

[Hafar1014]

And they still choose from among those students. While you have been kicking your little pink soccer ball around I have worked with students no private school would accept. Not the same.

I worked in 4 mental hospitals 3 with teens. Some kids need to be placed in residential treatment and not in any public or private school. They can finish their education there

 

[SweetSue92]

Giving a shit about what is going on in a student's life that results in certain behavior is not "bunk," it's teaching. You teaching 'Three Blind Mice' on the recorder to six year olds is about one step above soccer boy claiming to be an education expert. I have students with no food, working full-time, getting shot at on the way home, or flat-out homeless. If you think that's not going to affect the ability to learn, you need to shut up and go back to practicing the triangle.

You're a study hall monitor who used to post prolifically DURING THE SCHOOL DAY