A good teacher with a smart class can do wonders, while the same teacher with a dull class can barely tread water. In small school districts like the one I gre

A good teacher with a smart class can do wonders, while the same teacher with a dull class can barely tread water. In small school districts like the one I grew up in, your district can bounce from A+ in the test score rankings with one class of above average intelligence students, to failing the next year when you have a class full of SPED kids, then back again the next year. I've seen it happen, it is what it is. Try as hard as you may, you can't make chicken salad from chicken shit...