Rhode Island School District

This past February a large amount (approximately 74 or more) of high school teachers were fired as of the end of the school year from one of the lowest performing high schools in Rhode Island. According to statistics, fewer than 50 percent of the students in Central Falls High School of Rhode Island graduate in four years. According to an article from CNN, when the superintendent suggested a plan of making the school day longer and asking teachers to tutor students for an hour outside of the school day weekly, the teachers didn’t agree without a compensation, which left the superintendent to fall back on her other option which was to the fire the teachers.

I’m curious as to instead of firing teachers, why an option wasn’t to simply reevaluate the curriculum? It seems quite a large number for the result of more than 50% of students not graduating in four years being completely the teachers fault, and not only a few teachers, but the majority of teachers at the school. I would think the superintendent would first look at the option of reevaluating the curriculum, look at how much support students receive with their studies and whether they have jobs or other responsibilities going on in their lives keeping them away from their studies. Simply firing majority of the teaching staff doesn’t seem like a valid solution.