re: New state model for education

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Nothing. What's the big deal?

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I assume this is also an idealistic world where discipline is not affected or influenced by lawsuits, right?

I had an inner city student transfer into my class halfway through September one year. He had an aunt who lived in an apartment in our district and his older brother murdered someone in a drug deal gone bad in Ensley (probably the worst neighborhood in Birmingham). So thinking life was like Fresh Prince, his mother sent him to a predominantly white area (about 80% white) to get a good education.

He ruined the class. He was loud. Couldn’t hold still. He made the other students uncomfortable. He made me uncomfortable. He was disrespectful and distrusting of any authority figure. He needed constant one-on-one direction to help him understand the material and keep him on task. He sucked up my attention most days and it took until December for enough crap to happen to have him sent to the alternative school. And that was at least him moving to to the district.

I had other students with similar backgrounds cause similar problem. Perhaps that’s merely anecdotal, but I would be rather upset as a parent if I bought a nice house in a nice area and my kids’ education was disrupted due to kids with vouchers coming and going as they please. I think you’re underestimating the reality of kids from low income environments mixing with those from high income ones.