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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you love or hate about your kids school.

Gladys Noon Spellman
-Good - Fantastic Principal, really diverse student body (something like 30 countries are represented), great culture of respect and responsibility, outdoor classroom, great PE program, lots of technology in the classrooms, great parent liaison, active PTA, goes to 6 th grade, lots of beautification projects ongoing. Communications from the school have gotten a lot better.

-Bad - Art teacher is lazy, 1 of the music teachers is awful, big classes at upper grades (3-6), the teachers don't do many after school clubs or activities and only a handful show up at evening events.  Up until recently they didn't have a competent AP so the Principal was overloaded.  There is a new AP who seems great.

-The ugly- the playground is 25 years old and most of the grass area is taken up by mobile classrooms, the Guidance councilor is retired in place, some of the teachers are terrible and need to go.  [/quote]

I don’t usually peep over her often as I am in Howard County but I wanted to lightly touch upon your concern of afterschool clubs and activities. The after school clubs and activities in MoCo and HoCo are based on fundraising or donations from the PTA. Largely, parents find after school clubs or companies that do clubs to bring enrichment to their schools so that all children benefit. I would rein in the idea that teachers should do clubs after a long day with children. At some point parents should step in. [/quote]

Excellent point!

I know that at my daughters' school the staff are compensated for running clubs or other activities but I can understand wanting to get out of there at the end of the day.  Teachers not showing up for special evening events is sort of disheartening though.  When I went to the elementary school Christmas concert this year the only teachers that were there were the music teachers and 2 teachers who have children who attend the school.

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