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...start of this year, though, was different. "Last year I didn't want to be here," says Joe. "But this year is not so bad. I like it. I've changed." His grades are up, he's doing his homework, and he's been absent only once. He's been coming to hockey practice, hoping that an appeal to the eligibility board will let him rejoin the team. Faye Walker, the Suspension Lady, who saw Joe as a "terror" his freshman year, sees real growth: "Now he knows where he wants to go and who he wants...
...talk back. Some students curse at them; others don't bother to come to class on time. Teachers may send them to the office to be reprimanded, but the kids usually return the next day with a grudge. Some teachers, they say, don't even bother to assign homework because the students won't do it and will flunk the class. And if teachers have high fail rates, school administrators come down on them...
...remarkable amount about which girl's parents are breaking up and which boy chafes at his big sister's accomplishments. And they get involved. Last year teachers noticed that one girl was suddenly doing poorly in school: she was often tardy, slept through class, didn't do her homework and dyed her hair wild colors. Counselors made a visit to the address listed as her home and found she was living there alone. Her grandmother had been there with her but was in the hospital, and the girl was estranged from her parents. She was using drugs and alcohol...
Like many teachers, Phillips has enormous control over what gets taught in her classroom and yet admits she is constrained when it comes to standards and expectations, like assigning homework. She guesses about 15% in her class actually do it, which means she can't base Tuesday's class on readings that no one did the night before. Bright kids get bored; slow kids get lost; the kids in the middle muddle through. Her colleague Bob Hutcheson puts it this way: "I wonder if among their peers, there isn't a certain norm of mediocrity. And if they shoot...
Senior Sarah Bradberry sits on the floor, reading The Whipping Boy for her children's literature class. She scribbles answers to questions printed on purple paper, homework she should have done over the weekend. The class, she says, is easy. All the students do is interpret books written at third-grade levels. "I need the English credit to graduate," she says. Just down the hall, you see another kid, copying answers from one purple sheet to another...