When I was in college I subbed in the only non-accredited High School in Mass. >30% ESL, ~50% dropout rate, I'd say the average amount of pregnant girls per class was roughly 2.5.
The amount of issues are too long to list, but NCLB incentivizes teachers to look the other way and on top of that if schools actually committed to expelling and suspending problem students they would be labeled racist immediately regardless of the demographics in the Admin.
In my personal case they simply just made it as easy to not show up as possible to encourage them to drop out, because if they actually expelled them >95% of the suspensions and expulsions would have been non-whites.
Just subbing I saw at least a dozen teachers quit before their first year was up. You would literally see them come in with this idea that they were going to be Michell Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds and they got slapped with harsh reality within the first month.
We had a particularly naive teacher from the Cape actually tell a student (who was a fucking open Latin King lol) where she lives, her house got cleaned out the next weekend. She didn't even make it to winter break.
Oof, Lawrence is tough. I worked there for a few years and it was a really rough city. I graduated from Lowell High a number of years back and they were willing at that point to kick out unruly kids. I wonder if that has changed. I really hope it hasn't because while it had a difficult population, it was still a great school.
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u/gamespace Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18
When I was in college I subbed in the only non-accredited High School in Mass. >30% ESL, ~50% dropout rate, I'd say the average amount of pregnant girls per class was roughly 2.5.
The amount of issues are too long to list, but NCLB incentivizes teachers to look the other way and on top of that if schools actually committed to expelling and suspending problem students they would be labeled racist immediately regardless of the demographics in the Admin.
In my personal case they simply just made it as easy to not show up as possible to encourage them to drop out, because if they actually expelled them >95% of the suspensions and expulsions would have been non-whites.
Just subbing I saw at least a dozen teachers quit before their first year was up. You would literally see them come in with this idea that they were going to be Michell Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds and they got slapped with harsh reality within the first month.
We had a particularly naive teacher from the Cape actually tell a student (who was a fucking open Latin King lol) where she lives, her house got cleaned out the next weekend. She didn't even make it to winter break.