Re:Half of Black High School Students in the Bay Area Can Ba...
by duxup on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:01PM
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Local school district where I am has a part that is predominantly black, other part more diverse.
Teachers don’t want to teach at the predominantly black schools (regardless of their own race). Violence, poverty, little to no parent engagement. When they have school conferences that half of the district teachers don’t have anything to do while the other half has parents lined up in the halls.
And if there is parent engagement it is sometimes not positive.
At one point the schools were accused of not providing enough support. More recently the sentiment is that too many black kids are identified as needing special education/ support… so now they are scared to provide / assign those services.
I don’t know what the solutions are. It’s complex, it’s hard.
There are reasons for all sorts of the individual issues, but as a whole they all feed into each other and the mountain of issues seem insurmountable.
Teachers don’t want to teach at the predominantly black schools (regardless of their own race). Violence, poverty, little to no parent engagement. When they have school conferences that half of the district teachers don’t have anything to do while the other half has parents lined up in the halls.
And if there is parent engagement it is sometimes not positive.
At one point the schools were accused of not providing enough support. More recently the sentiment is that too many black kids are identified as needing special education/ support… so now they are scared to provide / assign those services.
I don’t know what the solutions are. It’s complex, it’s hard.
There are reasons for all sorts of the individual issues, but as a whole they all feed into each other and the mountain of issues seem insurmountable.