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Originally Posted by squeeeb
so you are a young teacher who is gonna go out there and educate the world! you find out you are dealing with parents who are too busy or fucked up with their own shitty lives or just don't care, so you get no help from them. you got kids coming from fucked up homes, education boards breathing down your neck for results, you are not paid all that well, there are other factors involved, it all just breeds apathy. you do what you can but really, why bother to try hard, its just a waste of time.
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Or you have limited time and resources and you decide not to waste them on kids who are being difficult. Why spend your time and effort getting an F student to get a slightly higher F when you can instead get several B students to become A students? It's not always a reluctance to try hard, or a sign that you don't care; sometimes it's an effort to spend your resources where they'll do the most good. And some students, whether becuase of parents or culture or genetics or whatever else, will fail no matter what a teacher does.