Sorry this is bugging me… why were administrators giving a talk on poverty?
Why, teacher training, of course! That’s just how the public schools operate, as farming centers for socialization and social justice. When you think about it, it’s just more evidence that government schoolteachers are not educators, but social workers for the state, so these kinds of problems weigh heavily on their minds. The state schools are cruel places, practically laboratories of socio-pathology where young people are institutionalized and indoctrinated, so they feel the need for these kinds of programs to keep the teachers better prepared and better equipped to be effective classroom “managers.”
Curriculum and real education really don’t matter to administrators. At least that was my experience.