It is obvious that Pittsburgh Public Schools did what was sadly necessary…
Board members [of the Wilkinsburg School District] say that giving up on the schools is the best thing they can do to give their students a shot at a better education and a better life. But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students on before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city’s lowest-performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.
So in a deal approved this week, Wilkinsburg students are headed for a school that is much like the one they are leaving behind. (WaPo, Emma Brown)
…but now it gets really tricky.
Because in addition to ’the ordinary amount’ of “chaos and failure” prevalent in the educational vicinity…
Students from the two schools have long feuded, [a Wilkinsburg district mother] said, and she worries about an eruption of violence when they’re all under one roof. (ibid)
More worrisome still, I would wager, if those students perceive that the adults around them either don’t have it together Continue reading