What obstacles stand in the way of kids achieving well in schools?
The problems that our members face every day trying to move kids academically, motivate them, engage them, get them to do homework or study for tests so that they can pass tests are just enormous. I mean, a lot of these kids walk through the door with a lot of baggage, from mild problems associated with poverty to very severe family problems that have caused the child to be emotionally disturbed for all kinds of good reasons. Q: What is the teachers’ role in a school’s administrative structure? You sometimes get this, you know, backlash from business people or some school board members or some administrators and maybe even some of the parents. “Well, the teachers are getting too much power, the teachers are running things.” Now, try going to Germany or France or Britain or virtually any other developed country and say, you know, “Well, the teachers are running the schools.” People would look at you blank, you know, and say, “Well, as opposed to who? Who’s supposed to run them?” because
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- What obstacles stand in the way of kids achieving well in schools?
