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TURNAROUND SPECIALIST
Part 1
Parke
Land is facing the biggest challenge of his career. After 31
years as a principal in some of Virginia’s top performing
suburban public high schools, Land has moved to the inner city
to try his hand at 'turning around' a struggling middle school.
Boushall middle school in Richmond, Virginia, has a failure
rate of nearly 50% in reading. Three out every four students
live in poverty, and teachers say that discipline is their biggest
problem. Boushall is exactly what Land was looking for when
he signed up one year ago for Virginia’s “Turn Around
Specialist Program”.
Among the hottest new ideas in education, the program aims to
fix failing schools by recruiting experienced principals, training
them to think like CEO’s, and moving them to schools stuck
at the bottom. Can better leadership solve the problems of inner
city education? Land has a year to prove that it can...and that
he's the right man for the job.
produced and edited by John
D. Tulenko and David
Wald
VIEWER COMMENTS
BOUSHALL MIDDLE
SCHOOL STUDENT COMMENTS |
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BOUSCHALL
MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT COMMENTS |
"I think
that Mr. Land has a point on how this schools behavior is. The
3 reasons I think this is how kids act in class, how students
acted when they get a referral, and how the students yell at
their teachers.
How kids acted in class. They curse in class, slam chairs, or
walk out. I think it's stupid to slam a chair for no reason
at all. Cursing in class is all right but is bad because you
get written up. Walking out of class is just as worse as cursing
in class because once you walk out you can't come back in the
room and further most your grade starts to drop.
How students yell at their teachers. The teachers either ask
them to step out side or get out of their classroom because
of something they did. Then the student will go out and slam
the door. Maybe after awhile the student skips the next class
when he has that class again and then he or she's grade drops.
How students acted when they get a referral. When they get written
up they get mad or start to curse. The student will get another
referral because he cured. When they get a written referral
it's for something stupid they did in class.
Students shouldn't acted this way just because they got a referral,
got kicked out, or talked back to their teachers. I think that
after school detention is good for the bad kids but sometimes
they don't come. Most kids skip detention and go home. More
kids get referrals then anything in this school." –name
withheld
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