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Class Warfare - Focus on "Good" Students Is Ruining Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Class Warfare - Focus on "Good" Students Is Ruining Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Discovery Miles 2 320
You Save R1,288 (85%)
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With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union
leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how
good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing
success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is
what William Fibkins calls the "dazzle" approach, which focuses
only on "good news." Overtime administrators and staff often come
to believe the positive reviews of the good news process and
overlook or abandon those students who don't make good news but
instead act out, fail, cause trouble and give the school a bad
name. These are the "bad news" kids, and their lives are not
newsworthy. This book is about the unintended consequences that can
occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in
school life-a process that creates two different worlds in a school
community that often prides itself on fostering unity and
belonging. The school media promotions may say "All is well here,"
but this positive spin belies the divisions that breed isolation
and estrangement for both the "good news" and "bad news" kids,
which gives rise to class warfare in the school community. In a
culture in which some students are valued as more worthy than
others, being a more worthy student can have a serious downside
that is as risky as being an unworthy student. This book explores
these often hidden consequences and what school and community
leaders need to do to right this sinking ship-a ship that seems
sturdy and well-built to onlookers but is abusing its crew to keep
afloat. Some schools operate on a system which uses high achieving
students as a commodity to pass school budgets and downplays the
cries of troubled students to be included in "their" school. Good
news gets headlines while bad news is shifted to the back page or
left out, resulting in an "all is well, problem-free" picture of
the school.
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