Re #58 TX TEACHER: “You want to fix my classroom? Easy – give me the power to eject students who cause me problem.” Sure, define the problem.
My son was permanently ejected from advanced biology class for drawing picture of his teacher when the teacher took a day off and was substituted by some “baby sitter”, so kids socialized. Nevertheless the teacher considered it to be an awful “problem”.
To restore my kid back in class took a threat of a lawsuit and interference from a district’s director of secondary education.
He later was the only one from this class who got 5 on Biology Advance Placement Test.
Probably due to his absence from the class for few weeks.
However, I do agree that educational problems are mostly demographically determined. Plus idiotic curriculum in elementary education.