Clumsy teaching happens even in great schools

Jay Matthews:

If you thought my column two weeks ago about a struggling fifth-grader was an indictment of the Prince George's County school system, please read the flood of comments to my blog about that.

The issue I discussed -- some teachers being unable or unwilling to help a bright child with a learning disability -- is not a Prince George's problem, the responses show. It is every district's problem.

If that is not the case, then why were there so many complaints about insensitive teachers from Montgomery County, which unlike Prince George's is one of the wealthiest and highest-performing districts in the country? One Montgomery mother said the staff members at her daughter's high school forgot their own promises and a psychologist's recommendation to give the girl reminders when assignments were due. "They wouldn't implement a plan for her because her test scores were too high," the mother said.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 3, 2012 2:40 AM
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