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Tough Love?
February 28, 2010 by
at 10:23 AM
Central Falls is a small rust-belt Rhode Island town with lots of boarded-up windows and abandoned buildings. The median income in the town is approximately $22,000. About half the high school students are failing their classes and last fall only 7% of grade 11 students tested proficient in math. But when the school board superintendent asked the teachers (whose salaries average around $75,000) to teach an extra 25 minutes a day and help with tutoring, the union refused. To its dismay, the school board trustees have responded by firing every single teacher at the school.
In the photo at the top of this article, one of the teachers is holding a sign that says in part “We care about our students.“
Words fail us.