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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Your KID is a top student? Is there something wrong with running a school like a business? Can you tell us which teachers have left? You think that their reason for leaving was that the administrations poor handling of things? What things? Children talking back? Not towels in the teacher rest room? Days off, personal days? Having to do stuff with the kids after school? Can you tell us what situations those were? Did someone on this thread say that there was turnover of teachers? Did they further say that it was due to "poor production"? I missed that post.
They have lost at least a dozen teachers in the last three years and have been unable to replace them? Was that due to not being able to find someone for the job in this economy, or was that due to a cut back of finances for their salaries?
The pay is below the prevailing rate and they still keep good teachers?
I know I have asked a lot of questions and I will go back and reread this thread because I may have missed some points.
I did go back and I did reread this thread and there was nowhere that I could see that anyone posted anything about teachers turnover or anything about poor production.
I am old and dim and sometimes I just don't capture the meat of an issue.
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Yes Mam, My kid is an exceptional student. Academic full-ride to an honors Pre-med program. Is that good enough for you? (By the way, my kid's standardized test scores have decreased since our move here)
No I will not name names of teachers that have left but you could find that out if you choose too. Yes, they left for reasons beyond that of students talking back, please, are we adults here? No it wasn't for poor production, as a matter of fact, some were the top teachers at that school and in the district.
It is very easy to replace a teacher in this climate with a body, especially a young, new teacher that will be less expensive and willing to do anything to keep the management happy, even if it means.....never mind. I guess that is what I meant by replacing the lost teachers, because when I have a kid in a school that has three new teachers in one school year for two seperate subjects, that is an issue. I know I could always change schools right?
How do YOU determine a good teacher? You claim they have good teachers, what is your criteria? FCAT scores? Attendance, Grades? Just curious, because you may want to define good before you label something. Just saying.....