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[quote=Anonymous]I have an elementary school kid but I would say that a lot of private schools have the risk of duds and have loose enough curriculum and testing requirements that duds can slip by for a while under the guise of “teacher autonomy”.  My child has been at her school for 6 years and had 2 dud years and one awful year. The teacher of the awful year did not have her contract renewed. My child is in her final year at her school so we have been attended admissions events all fall, and based on the questions people are asking 1:1 and in the hallways, a lot of people are experiencing erratic teacher quality at even the very best private schools. And no wonder! We’ve told teachers that their work isn’t valuable so the best college students run far away from the profession. And then we turn around and criticize schools for not finding better teachers.

The younger generation of educators approaches loyalty and their careers very differently than teachers even 5 years older. I attend independent school conferences as a conference organizer and the thing they have in common is concerns about succession and job-hopping. Except that heads are no longer calling it job-hopping because that carries a negative connotation that is going away- it’s now assumed in the industry that early career educators will only stay for a few years in each role. That makes it tricky for them to quickly integrate into a school’s culture and curriculum, so there will be more dud years to come for everyone.[/quote]

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