And like many other
teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant
teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing
over the reins would mean
chaos.
Schools are crying out for action and evidence - based policies to tackle the education funding crisis,
chaos over primary assessment, and the blight of excessive
teacher workload.