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To: ajtj99 who wrote (244020)	4/13/2010 5:38:18 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 306849

<Tell me how the highly compensated teachers in Washington D.C. manage to have the worst school system in the country?> Can't teach at school what isn't reinforced and supported in the slums where the kids reside. There is your answer.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (244020)	4/14/2010 6:29:10 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 306849

Re: Compensation has very little to do with teacher success. Inner city schools face challenges in addition to the standard academic ones. You're looking at what is really combat pay, in many cases. I know a young woman who teaches in the Joliet high school system who has to break up knife fights in her classroom a couple times a year. Each year, a couple of kids go to the hospital with injuries suffered during classroom altercations. She's an excellent teacher who stays with it because most of the kids see her as an inspiration (by the end of the year). A little like "To sir, with love" I suppose. She looks like a model, I don't understand how she survives. I sure couldn't do it.