Neither the Mayor nor the Sun Times is lying. They're just not telling the truth in July 10's editorial. The quibble over the achievement scores of our city schools (Daley - 69.8% vs ST -- 67.5%) is not the bottom line issue here. And everyone knows it...!
Every teacher and every school administrator knows the real numbers where it all starts. With the numbers of kids coming to class from uneducated homes. Just in case you're a few generations behind the times, folks, here's classroom rule #1. Educators can't really educate kids from uneducated homes!
Do you want an exact number of these homes? Exactly too many.
Those of us who've spent a career in the classroom will tell you the truth everyone's looking for, but won't publish. When you send us kids from a broken home, a fighting home, a jobless home, a drugged home or a ganged home -- don't figure us to turn around your job. We'll try, but you have to try just as hard.
Now if the two of us ever get on the same page, neither the Mayor nor the Sun Times will have nearly as much to quibble about. Because if we do, this could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship!
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Amen, as any honest teacher will say. Parents are part of this equation, and if they don't add anything, they're actually subtracting something!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you can take equal parts (1)concerned parents and (2)concerned teachers, THEN your school system has a chance....
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