re: #167 lostlakehiker

Kids stuck with bad teachers make only half the progress in a year that they’d make with an average teacher.

Chock full of truthiness boilerplate!

What in the hell is your measuring criteria for a “good” teacher?

Grade average?

Funny how even modestly talented teachers can do wonders in well funded schools with intact family structures (like Fairfax, Virgina) versus dedicated, experienced teachers in Detroit stuck with street gangs, drugs and children who never met their father.

But you don’t want to admit to anthropological reality and the differences that high property tax values make in schools.

You want to sneer about teachers.

I will admit that whomever got stuck with you in school had a bad year.