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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
rabble rabble rabble
I have acknowledged time and again that the problems didn't start with the schools. This thread was supposed to be about what the
schools can do to improve outcomes.
It's not whether a 7 year old child is lost forever. Obviously your life path isn't set in stone by 7. But these schools are not equipped to deal with large numbers of
highly disruptive students.
itshot links this study of studies and you give him an attaboy as if you actually read the thing. That's not new information, and you're a fool to think those strategies aren't already in place. She doesn't have access to any of her MPS materials any more, but the district pays obscene amounts of money to bring in consultants to train teachers and provide materials for classroom management strategies.
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Only two student variables were significantly associated with effect size—age and socioeconomic status. Younger students showed larger effects from universal programming than older students and children with low socioeconomic status showed larger effects than their middle class peers.
Rococo already admitted that the student he thinks I'm referring to was the 17 year old high school senior who heads to the corner after school. No! This problem is evident when the kids are young, and only grows worse as the teachers' attention get spread thinner and the students who aren't responding to corrective action keep getting pushed through to the next grade where they fall further and further behind and just making things worse.
The time for proper diet and exercise was long before your diabetes led to gangrene. Now we have to take your foot.
Maybe you think it's hyperbolic, but how fair do you think it is to the 30 other kids if your 1st grade classroom has 5 or 6 of the kids in that video above? That kid acted like that with parents in the room. Teachers don't have extra adults to assist, and "you need to leave" isn't an option because there's nowhere to send them.
My wife spent 15 years teaching 6-8th grade and was by all accounts highly successful. She was featured in a book on empowering urban youth and won a few awards. The class that finally made her throw in the towel was a 2nd grade class at a new school that had 80% staff turnover from the year prior. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but I've seen the cell phone videos taken by the kids who stole hers out of her purse during class. These kids are 7 years old. How hard can it be?
Absolute chaos.
The school scored a 10.1 out of 100 in the latest year in which Student Achievement scores were measured. 0.0% were proficient in ELA, and 1.2% were proficient in math. The school had a 45.3% absenteeism rate.
I'm sorry, sir, we have to take the foot. You should've done something sooner.