Are you insinuating that there's a correlation between poverty and educational performance? This sounds ground breaking and the state Department of Education must have a position on this in relation to MCAS scores. No, wait. They don't. It's too bad because if you actually review things you discover that poverty has a huge impact on educational progress. We aren't going to improve education unless we deal with poverty. And as long as we continue to view poverty as a personal failing and not a structural impediment we are going to fail. In the meantime we have the biggest shift of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy that human history has ever witnessed and cries to accelerate it. The fact is that most people in a position to enact change don't care about the poor, be they children or adults. Compassion stops at the day of birth.
first, we would have to figure out how to have an honest conversation about poverty --
ReplyDeleteAre you insinuating that there's a correlation between poverty and educational performance? This sounds ground breaking and the state Department of Education must have a position on this in relation to MCAS scores. No, wait. They don't. It's too bad because if you actually review things you discover that poverty has a huge impact on educational progress. We aren't going to improve education unless we deal with poverty. And as long as we continue to view poverty as a personal failing and not a structural impediment we are going to fail. In the meantime we have the biggest shift of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy that human history has ever witnessed and cries to accelerate it. The fact is that most people in a position to enact change don't care about the poor, be they children or adults. Compassion stops at the day of birth.
ReplyDeleteHeading in to talk to the Board of Ed this week, Jim!
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