Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by JohnJamesRambo on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:00PM (#27565318)

> It is heartbreaking when all a child has is public school.

All I had was public school in a small town and I was a National Merit Scholar. I don’t understand this line of reasoning that you need more teaching from parents or for profit tutoring etc. I got a great education at my public school.

Now are some schools not great? Yes. But a blanket statement that all public schools aren’t enough seems incorrect, in my experience.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by paulpauper on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:21PM (#27565470)

>National Merit Scholar

Given how rare this is, this is much more of a function of IQ than school quality. If you fill a school, regardless of quality, with smart kids, grades, ratings, other other benchmarks of quality will probably all go up.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by saagarjha on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:04PM (#27566057)

I went to a school where National Merit Scholars were a dime a dozen: student performance there was almost independent of the teaching that they got.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by bombcar on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:05PM (#27565356)

“In a small town” basically covers it right there.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by akiselev on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:32PM (#27565534)

That's not particularly descriptive, because the high school in my small town of 25,000 was in the middle of the LA metro area. It is most often referred to as a small town by LA locals but it's high school class alone is easily the size of a "small town" in rural areas, where you might need a car just to get to your nearest neighbor.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by dnndev on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:04PM (#27565347)

“ in general.” Implies it’s not a blanket statement for all. Of course there is the exception.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by jbluepolarbear on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:42PM (#27565606)

If you have a learning disability and your only choice is public school, your pretty screwed.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by beaner on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:03PM (#27565338)

"It worked for me, so it must be working for most others."

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