Comment Re:Over-haul is needed (Score 1) 1514
If you taught in the ghettos I grew up in, your students may actually see you more than their parents. (And you may actually be the person who "escaped" whom they have as a role-model).
My parents were involved with my education as much as possible - and so were my teachers. That helped. But some parents worked two or three jobs to keep their children fed, and so the only attention they got was from their teachers - or the pimps and gang lords. Our teachers succeeded for some of us - more than would have succeeded without the teachers willing to get paid half as much as teachers three miles away.
My parents were involved with my education as much as possible - and so were my teachers. That helped. But some parents worked two or three jobs to keep their children fed, and so the only attention they got was from their teachers - or the pimps and gang lords. Our teachers succeeded for some of us - more than would have succeeded without the teachers willing to get paid half as much as teachers three miles away.
