Comments on: Pick next year’s teacher — How much say do you get?

By: Patsy

Patsy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:53:43 +0000

I am sorry, but as a teacher of 14 years, I have already gone through the interview process several times when changing schools or districts. If parents should be allowed to interview teachers, then teachers should also be allowed to interview and choose parents. After all, teachers are not children’s personal servants, as some parents seem to think they should be. I have had enough of overindulged children, who are not expected to think for themselves, and then their teachers attacked for expecting them to think for themselves. If parents want to do the thinking for their children, then they should home school!

By: irisheyes

irisheyes — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:20:27 +0000

We just finished our class lists today. What stress! There are so many things we look at when making the lists. We need to equalize boys and girls, make sure the racial profile is ok (we’re majority African American, so we need to make sure that we don’t have an all AA class with just one white student), make sure that you don’t have all high kids and one low one, and separate all of the behavior and parent problems. It took us two hours! Then, we had to meet again later because the admins weren’t happy about how the reading levels were spread out.
As a teacher at the school, I can specifically request a teacher. I did last year for both of my kids, but this year I didn’t make a formal request. I did go to both of their current teachers and told them who I wanted next year.

By: DB

DB — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:33:57 +0000

I used a different browser and got in fine after IE failed me. So annoying . . .

By: BlondeHoney

BlondeHoney — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:31:30 +0000

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MomsRule — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:39:54 +0000

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MomsRule — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:48 +0000

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By: jct

jct — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:29:47 +0000

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