This parent is very happy with the public schools her children attend. She says the teachers are dedicated and terrific.
My kids attend NC public schools. I hate the standardized test prep every year and the stress it puts my kids under, but I love their school. They have fantastic teachers, take eight or nine field trips every year, and begin dissection in science in third grade. They have opportunities I couldn’t offer them if I homeschooled. I volunteer in their classrooms and I know what the teachers put into their work and what they do without due to budget cuts. I know there’s a lot of junk and politics for teachers to deal with, but it doesn’t go unnoticed. There are good schools out there.
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How will you address Leandro? Judge Manning cites “academic genocide” in North Carolina and told the state board its cause was “adults” who “don’t know to read” or “come in out of the rain.” Did anyone ever follow up on Dr. Holliday’s response to Judge Manning at that meeting? It’s been five years…
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There are good schools everywhere DESPITE the budget cuts and what politicians and the “Michelle Rhees” out there are saying. They, their money, and their hold of the media, are MUCH louder than us teachers despite what we do every day even if we are in, as I am, schools of high poverty.
How do we make the teachers LOUDER and fight back?
It can’t be too late can it?????
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Thanks for the shout-out and props, Mom. It means a lot. Now, if you love that school, please continue to do the the following; which I’m sure you already do and encourage your friends to do the same. Continue to volunteer and support not only your child and the children of others but also the teachers. Make your satisfaction known to the teachers, principal and county admins and super. Write letters to the local paper (A nice little lesson for your children- 1st amendment (petition and free speech and the exercising of those rights.) Write your local and national legislators and the President. Let them know what’s going on and where you stand. It only takes a small change for your school to go south. Stay in front and on top. My hope, wish and dream is for all schools to be similar to yours and for all teachers to have supportive parents like you. As a teacher, it makes our jobs a little easier and less stressful. Continue on!
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Well said.
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The first for-profit school district in the nation neighbors my school district. I recently found out that a classroom for Emotionally Impaired students has had SIX teachers already since the start of school. Six teachers!
Emotionally impaired students need stability and security. They are getting the exact opposite. I can’t even imagine how damaging this is to those students.
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At first I thought “Wow, they have six teachers for the ED/EI classroom, great” then I realized you said six different teachers over that time frame. So sad that the education of all comes tertiary to making a profit and a name for oneself. By the way, what is the “for profit” district?
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