Building a Better Teacher
This about sums it up for me. Richer communities grow better kids if they want to. Link
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A serial accumulation of memory, incident, consideration, reconsideration, personal discovery and attempts at truth. It is intended for my attention and that of other interested persons If that changes, I will extensively re-edit. Warning: I attempt to use inductive logic.
I taught in public schools for thirty years and taught at community colleges for an additional four years. I was a very effective teacher, both in my own estimation, and in the estimation of superiors. What I found galling in these many years of work in public education was the complete lack of support from school administrators, and in the case of one community, the community itself. I came to feel that administrators, in general, were those who sought to escape direct involvement with students and collect a larger paycheck than teachers.
Also, there is a direct relationship between poverty and student success. Schools in impoverished areas have everything going against them. Poverty is expensive to maintain: it hurts everyone, primarily innocent children, their families, communities, and especially the schools they attend. The fact that early childhood education is not guaranteed in the contemporary U.S. speaks volumes to how the society disinvests in human beings.
— Howie Lisnoff