Charter school teachers are quitting at an alarming rate...and going to DCPS. How can parents help?!

[Anonymous]

We're at a charter where parents apply for jobs so they can have preference to enroll their children.

We would never consider DCPS: they're either bad or overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am switching from a charter to DCPS this year. The school is low-income and lots of ELL kids with a tough principal but I really prefer being in a public setting

I call Shenanigans. If you were a teacher in a charter school, you would know that charters are a public setting.

Um no, not shenanigans. I know charters are public but there's a huge difference being in a DCPS public vs an independtly run charter school. Maybe I should reword and say I prefer being in a "traditional public school"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our HRCS, teachers have actually applied to get jobs so that they could get preferential enrollment for their children.

Until they start and realize how that they don't want their children to go there.

The local HRCS had a teacher from the start of the school and said that she wanted her children to go there one day -- and then she quit. You get a new perspective of what is great when your own child would be in that environment. Plus, it's ranked 1/10 on great schools despite having a high DC ranking and one of the longest waiting lists. Apparently that teacher is now planning to send her children to a Montgomery County school with stronger academics, more organization, more teacher support, and less behavioral problems with all the advantages of diversity and being close to the city.

We don't go there but have friends who do and who like it but stories like these make me glad we live in bounds for a good DCPS option.

That's too bad for your school, but it definitely doesn't apply to our HRCS. These two teachers love the school. They're keeping their child there. One parent is staying at the school to teach and the other parent is moving to the middle school which it feeds and will teach there.

TMI really.

[Anonymous]

Everything about this thread reads like propaganda.

[Anonymous]

WHERE are your stats, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:mmm....Although it would take a lot of work, I'm pretty sure turnover is even crazier on the charter side due to low pay, burn out, etc.

Anybody disagree?

Why are you lying, OP? Shame on you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:mmm....Although it would take a lot of work, I'm pretty sure turnover is even crazier on the charter side due to low pay, burn out, etc.

Anybody disagree?

Obviously, disagree. Nobody every stays at a DCPS EOTP (except losers on the "employment program"). The retention at HRCs though is relatively good.