I could go on. You know the story. And I say, so tell me about your school. Honors is the bottom. That's what the structure is screaming.
Tracks speak louder than yelling at teachers to have high expectations.
Teachers and kids read those structures. Let me also say that a group of us at City University of New York just completed an amazing study recently, provoked in part by the Amadou Diallo murder by police. Needless to say, white girls and black boys are growing up in very different cities. And, sorry to say, kids in trouble report feeling as unlikely to turn to the their teachers as they are to the cops. I worry that we're losing teachers.