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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: JBTFD who wrote (345020)	1/19/2003 7:48:36 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 769670

I think there are ways it could work, but you'd have to put more money into the public schools to lower the ratios- because troubled kids require more attention, and supervision. (and that won't happen- troubled kids, without strong parental support, don't have much of a lobby) And then you'd have to get real teachers in the schools- many of the inner city schools can only partially meet their staffing needs, and they rely on substitutes who are not fully trained. Attracting good credentialed teachers to schools in troubled areas will call for much higher salaries. I know some people who are in the Teach for America program, and some of those people are scared of the environments they have to work in. My supervisor for my student teaching recently quit working in the Oakland schools, because he was concerned about his safety. Cherry picking the good students wouldn't be such a horrible idea if you were really going to concentrate on the students who were left behind. Those students are the ones we desperately need to reach, since they pose the greatest danger to society if we fail to teach them.

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