You worry at night if a child that you've helped develop reading and math skills is going to disappear one day. The instability poisons the atmosphere. It affects not only how teachers teach but how they view their superiors and their own colleagues. They often confine themselves in their classrooms. Parents grow angry and distrustful, students become lost and listless.
Test scores stay low, and review materials become staples for the stream of newly arriving students.
Shante, who was left back once, is a year behind. Mobility has become a significant new focal point of education reform groups trying to understand student achievement. But it is problematic when they move multiple times. They begin to develop gaps in their education. The problem is one that the new chancellor, Harold O. Levy, will be tangling with in one form or another.