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[quote=Anonymous]Chaos poster here...did not realize this would be such an inflammatory word. My experience of chaos is when I am coming into the school and the lunch guy is shoving a child out the door, or children are being screamed at by teachers in the hallways, or I am told that there is a culture of stress in my child's classroom over learning, or I am being told by my child that the teacher screams all the time because there are poorly behaving children. Chaos for me is being on the playground in the morning and watching children on the playground who have no adult supervision, or where the ratio of students to caregivers seems like 1/50. I have heard from other parents about their experiences of similar and worse conditions, but I don't feel like it is right to share specifics. Perhaps the word I chose over-states my experience, although I have left my child at the school many times feeling uneasy. I am discouraged that there has been so little protest over the amount of testing, particularly the addition of the PACE tests this year. In some grades the students are being given the PACE tests 5 times a year, the DC CAS or BAS three times a year (or is it 2?) and in the younger grades, they are also getting the Dibbels, which is a reading test, 3 times a year. The teachers I have spoken to about the testing have been extremely vocal about their dismay about the testing. They feel like they are being required to teach to the test, that their instruction time is being impeded by having to prepare the students for the test, and that they are being held accountable for the student's performance on all of these tests. Add to this the Impact process and you have stressed out teachers. Ultimately, this discussion started out as an opinion generator, and that is all it is. My opinion of Murch is not a good one, and although we have given it many years, my opinion has not improved over time. I am glad that there are so many parents whose children are having a good experience, and that their opinion of the school is a good one. My opinion should not make you nervous or start off an attack if you are secure in your own experience. But it is noteworthy that the reaction people have to posters (or teachers) who are unhappy at Murch has been to go after them with blaming or dismissive statements. [/quote]
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