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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?[/quote]

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET.  Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter.  And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2.  Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck![/quote]

Oh wow the kids weren't kidding then! It's one thing to be a tough teacher, but quite another to be incompetent and lazy. Ugh! Thanks for your input! DD heard her Bio teacher isn't much better. He puts students to sleep during his lectures.[/quote]

Out of the 3, Harris is great teacher. Puts in lot of effort with students and gives them more responsibility on the work assignments and communicates a lot(mostly keeps whole IBET project going and together. if it weren't for her, kids' final IBET project would be disaster). Seyler feedback above is correct and to the point. Larson knows his subject(Bio) but barely teaches. Students are on their own and his tests and quizzes are all over the place (kids just have to memorize text book a lot). To top it off he is also teaching Chemistry (which is not even his core subject) in 10th grade. So one can only imagine what those 10th graders will learn in his class (Sigh!)[/quote]

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