After reading this article, and sitting through our discussion of the correlation between state's NAEP scores and their rate of poverty, I am feeling very discouraged.
I would like nothing more than to get my kids to stop hitting each other and calling names, and to care more about school than they seem to care about sex, gangs, and acting out (which are constant topics of conversation when they don't know I can hear them). I try to make them see how important doing well in school is for their future, but it usually feels fruitless. After reading this, and recognizing so much of it in my students, much of what I do feels fruitless.
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