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Originally Posted by Inso0
I like how you're glossing over the countless poor people who have no issue ensuring that their children value an education and supporting them in obtaining one.
It only takes a few kids per classroom to prevent any learning from taking place. Those 5 or 6 kids need to be removed from the equation so the rest of their peers can flourish. Send the ones with parents who DGAF to the military boarding schools.
Bolded is way more difficult to execute than you pretend it is. First, not every disruptive student is a tough, jaded seventeen-year-old corner boy like the kids on The Wire.
Sometimes the kid is in second or third grade. That seems a little early to be giving up on a kid off in the way you suggest.
You have cited to your wife's experience teaching in Milwaukee. And FWIW, I am not doubting the veracity of your anecdotes. In fact, I know someone who had a similiar experience to your wife's experience.
But here is a different anecodate. There was a kid in my son's third grade class who was highly disruptive and occasionally aggressive, both to other kids and teachers. There were plenty of parents who would have been happy to see this kid get kicked out of school. But the principal took a personal interest in the kid. There were a lot of days where the kid spent his entire day with the principal.
By the end of the year, the kid had made tremendous progress. He wasn't perfect, but he was much, much better. When the school had its end-of-year thing, several kids said a few words about what the school meant to them. This kid stood up in front of everyone and said that when he started the year, he felt angry all the time and that he thought he was angry at other kids and the teachers. He explained that the school had helped him to realize that he was frustrated and upset about other things and that he was grateful for all the help he had received from the school. Plenty of people were crying by the time the kid sat down.
Not all the stories are bad.