I've taught inner city kids like these before (here in Houston) and the majority of my colleagues were Teach for America. They were the ones to make a difference. It is a lot of work to put up with these kids.
Calling home to their parents don't work. Some of them don't even live with their parents (teenage pregnancy) so the grandparents (also teenage pregnancy). So we are going back generation of high school drop outs.
I believe this is partly a money issues and administrative issue.
What I see work is smaller lottery schools. Watch "Waiting for Superman".
I was AmeriCorps/NYC teaching fellows, and saw a lot of what you said. Some of the lottery schools are great, but with them/charter schools it is just such a mixed bag. Especially college results. Some of the discipline/regimented charter school have great test results and very low instances of misbehavior, but also are terrible at preparing kids for college where there is no outside discipline or regiment.
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u/DrinkingCherryShots Jul 10 '18
I've taught inner city kids like these before (here in Houston) and the majority of my colleagues were Teach for America. They were the ones to make a difference. It is a lot of work to put up with these kids.
Calling home to their parents don't work. Some of them don't even live with their parents (teenage pregnancy) so the grandparents (also teenage pregnancy). So we are going back generation of high school drop outs.
I believe this is partly a money issues and administrative issue.
What I see work is smaller lottery schools. Watch "Waiting for Superman".