Despite constant propaganda, even teachers stuck in the KCPS are often planning an escape. Very much like a former fattie spouce, here's the new plan to trick/guilt them into staying: New Teacher Residency Program Aims At Higher Teacher Retention In Kansas City
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Why would we want to retain teachers in a failing school district that is about to set a worlds record for academic underachievement? Seems to me we need to unload a lot of teachers and start all over.
ReplyDeleteKCPS spends tens of millions on consultants, advisors, counselors, tutors, psychiatrists, proctors, monitors, and endless nonprofit "programs" and the results continue to be abysmal.
ReplyDeleteThis is just the latest attempt at addressing the never-ending hopeless spiral.
The costs per student are among the highest around.
How about separating kids who want to learn from the dregs, parking the dregs somewhere by themselves, holding the students and their parents responsible and accountable, and at least trying to run an actual school district?
Doing the same thing over and over and at such cost is insanity.
Oh, and tell the revs to go on back to the churches where they belong.
2:39 You don't get it. The best teachers in the history of the world would "fail" in KCMO. "Parents" that don't care have kids that don't care. "Parents" that drop out and have kids at 15 have kids who do the exact same thing. "Parents" that are unemployed drug addicts are bad role models for kids. The kids emulate them. I use the term "parents" loosely because they are not "parents." They are simply the incubator for birth and a way to get more welfare money. The beat goes on in the hood. You can't teach people who have an IQ of 25. You can't teach people who have never worked for a single thing in their life. You can't teach people who emulate the prison culture. You can't teach people who are willing to kill over a set of rims, or in many cases, nothing at all (ask Harry Stone). Throwing money at the problem doesn't work either as we have proved to the tune of billions of dollars in the KCMO school district alone. They are truly a lost cause. For every one decent one you know there are at least a 100 worthless ones. It's just the truth.
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ReplyDeleteThat's SOOO SMART...
Take a fresh, young, idealistic new teachers AND throw them into some the worst open sewers in the KCPS District. That slap-in-the-face dose of Urban Terrorist Reality will either send them out of the district -- Johnson County, NKC, Catholic/Private -- OR into some other profession.
If KCPS was your "introduction" to the world of education, would you stick around -- and maybe get assaulted or murdered -- or RUN LIKE HELL...
Not too tough to figure out.
Show me the schools with high parent volunteerism, extra ciriculars sonsored and supported by unpaid community members and businesses and often alumni investments...
ReplyDeleteOh, right, most private schools
and the GOOD public schools where parents CONTRIBUTE time/talent to their TREASURES (society's future contributors).