Reply #4: He was in an impossible situation: [View All]

[femmocrat]

"The class average is 42 students for 11th and 12th grades, and 32 for freshmen and sophomores. Davidson's sculpture and photography classes had 60 and 65 pupils — and a budget that allocated about $2 for supplies for each student, he said."

He deserves credit for sticking it out as long as he did, IMO. I taught at an inner-city HS a long time ago. Art, vocational and consumer ed. and such courses are a "dumping ground" for all of the discipline problems and unmotivated students who aren't focusing on math and science. I lasted two years.