Jennifer- I'm unfamiliar with this particular topic so I appreciate you sharing your insights and thoughts here. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Hello Ms Berkshire. I am just subscribing to your substack. I will have a look at your book.
I see the Chicago high schools from the inside--as a substitute teacher, in segregated, generally very low-income, schools, with student bodies of 180 or so students, and half of those absent on any given day.
The staff all want the students' well-being and want them to stay in school long enough to get a high school diploma, which is considered pretty valuable by the kids, a useful thing to have. It makes it possible for them to find retail industry jobs in communities outside their own neighborhood.
Though the teachers in these schools, including African-American teachers, genuinely want the kids' well-being, they appear, with only one exception I have noticed, to have given up trying to interest the kids in what the official state curriculum has to offer.
These Chicago West Side inner city schools are often huge facilities that have housed three thousand students in the past. This past year, one such high school only graduated 25 students.
The Education Wars is the most important book on education published in 2024.
Jennifer- I'm unfamiliar with this particular topic so I appreciate you sharing your insights and thoughts here. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Hello Ms Berkshire. I am just subscribing to your substack. I will have a look at your book.
I see the Chicago high schools from the inside--as a substitute teacher, in segregated, generally very low-income, schools, with student bodies of 180 or so students, and half of those absent on any given day.
The staff all want the students' well-being and want them to stay in school long enough to get a high school diploma, which is considered pretty valuable by the kids, a useful thing to have. It makes it possible for them to find retail industry jobs in communities outside their own neighborhood.
Though the teachers in these schools, including African-American teachers, genuinely want the kids' well-being, they appear, with only one exception I have noticed, to have given up trying to interest the kids in what the official state curriculum has to offer.
These Chicago West Side inner city schools are often huge facilities that have housed three thousand students in the past. This past year, one such high school only graduated 25 students.
Is this part of the Education Wars?
John C.