From Which Schools Close? Redux:
… the schools the DOE chooses to shut are simply those that dare to teach the students with the city’s highest needs. There’s nothing terribly nuanced about it at all.
It should be obvious, to anyone who takes a second to think about it, that the schools with the greatest needs (which inevitably means the schools with the greatest socio-economic challenges) will be the schools with the poorest performance. So rather than pour resources into those areas and incentivize teachers and other staff to take on those challenges, the approach is to test, punish, and close. Nonsensical, but a great strategy if the ultimate goal is to privatize education and shuffle the less fortunate into ever-more-concentrated holding cells.
I taught English and creative writing at a public high school. I stay involved in education through my work with the Northern Virginia Writing Project. 
