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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, sounds like you blinked and missed it.

Its actually way better at HBW, where the teachers are the counselors, and they are responsible for like 50 kids.   At least they might know your students name.[/quote]

This is HBW's actual model?  That's terrible.  Honestly.  Being a teacher and being a counselor is not the same job and also being a counselor should not be a side job for a teacher.[/quote]

Well, everybody keeps wanting to know what the HBW "program" is that distinguishes it other than small classes. 
And when you only teach 50 kids instead of 150, meaningful individual mentoring is surely more feasible.[/quote]
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I know a teacher at HBW and she said she won’t send her own kids there. The place is out of control, kids are on their phones all day and not accountable for anything. Sure small classes are great, but only if you actually study.[/quote]

So true. A very small number of teachers (possibly in the single digits) actually maintains and enforces a cellphone policy in class. It's not uncommon for multiple kids to be blatantly on their phones in the middle of class. Career/college counseling does not seem to be a priority and it's tough to get private time in with your "counselor" because oftentimes most classrooms are open either for class remediation (i.e., teacher is occupied) or for kids to just hang out and eat lunch in (noisy and no privacy). It's been our experience that kids may have to take tests while other kids are talking, eating, playing music around them.[/quote]

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