[QUOTE=JjBee62;2810088]The first school, annual expenditure per student per year, $10 k. The second school spent $5.5 k per year per student. First one has a graduation rate of 89%, compared to 57% for the other.[/QUOTE]In which direction would you send your money? Investing money in inner city schools where you know it will be wasted is not a smart investment. You have seen the same thing with the projects. Put money in and build a new playground or paint the walls and the people do not take care of it. Say we will make a program called Section 8 where folks can move to a nice area and the government pays for most if not all, and the owner's home is destroyed. It may not be politically correct, but it is the truth.
[QUOTE=JjBee62;2810088]In a poor neighborhood teacher pay is much lower, everything about the school receives less funding. The best teachers seek the best pay at the best schools. Better teachers equals better students, equals better accreditation scores, equals increased funding, equals better teachers, ad infinitum.[/QUOTE]I do not know where you live, but where I am from there is a pay scale. No teacher in the same district with the same level of experience but at a different school makes a different amount of money. And even when I attended private school, I remember the public school teachers making more.
In the inner-city schools we could not gives students a bad grade because as you said the school is worried about the rankings and funding. The principal would send that shit right back to you to change it. Recently in my state a teacher blew the whistle on that shit. It was nothing new to folks inside because it has been going on for decades.
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How does one get to be a best teacher? Mostly by having students that do their part. If you have students that bullshit around and whose parents are not going to make sure they go to school and do their work, then there is no hope on being labeled a "best teacher".
[QUOTE=JjBee62;2810088]Students enter school pliant, ready to learn, to be molded into successful adults. If 1 group of students are always exposed to teachers who are financially stressed and unhappy with their job, how will they grow compared to students with teachers who are comfortable and happy with their position?
Of course parenting plays a role, but it's the same deal. Stressed parents, broken homes, surrounded by poverty, it's a lot harder to inspire your children.[/QUOTE]Man have you ever been inside of a school? Students pliant ready to learn? Not at all. Working at a school is like herding cats. Working at an inner city school is like herding feral cats. My parents were stressed and divorced, but that did not stop them from making sure I did what I had to do on an academic level. Me and my 4 brothers and sister all have college degrees. Me and my sister have masters degrees. My nephew finished 4 years of the university in 2 years last year and just finished the police academy last month. It had nothing to do with teachers, and everything to do with my brother raising him to do what needed to be done.
Too many folks have the game messed up. Even my mom wanted to get a tutor for my daughter. Her school (my rival high school) was full of great teachers and resources. As much as I tried to explain to my mom that it has nothing to do with her not understanding the material, but everything about her not going to school and not doing her work, it just went over my mom's head. Prescribing a tutor for someone not going to school and not doing their work is like a librarian prescribing novocaine when your car has a flat tire.
There are some fat ass people running around here yet nobody is blaming the school lunch lady. You can present to them all the healthy meals in school that you want, but if they go home and all they eat is junk, then it ain't because there are no good lunch ladies. It is the parents' fault for allowing it. The same as if a mf first even comes to school, but does not go home and work on their assignments so they can learn the material, it ain't the teacher's fault. It is the parents' fault for not making sure their kids are doing what they are supposed to so that they can be molded into successful adults as you put it.
These days being a teacher in most of these schools is a thankless job. You have to really want to be there if that is the career you have chosen. Me myself, I was like fuck that shit.
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