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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Why should teach era get rights over others? I don't see why a teacher should get a spot over anyone else--a police officer, a fire fighter, or anyone else. It doesn't mean that people don't respect teachers.

But they teach at the school? it isn't any teacher that gets a preference, but a teacher who teaches at the school. This is a no brainer to me.

This doesn't seem a reason to me. I live near a bunch of charters and my husband works by a bunch of charters, but we get no preference for them. It would be a lot more convenient for us. And if you give preference, then you will have teachers wanting to work at certain desirable charters and not wanting to work at ones that are less desirable for their kids, where they could be making a real contribution. Bad idea.

Well, since you don't work at any of these charters, your opinion means nothing and is irrelevant to the conversation.

Most of the PPs on this thread are straight up teacher haters with absolutely no insight into the problem at hand. Seriously, people, you are worried about a handful of kids in the entire school. If you are so up in arms about people having unfair advantages, then you should be against sibling preference. Far, far more students get coveted spots per the sibling preference than any number of teacher children ever get.

Go ahead. Do the math. I'll wait. Because in my 15 years of K-12 teaching, I personally witnessed a whole 7 children who attended as children of teachers. Seven.

Teacher preference is a small and incredibly cheap perk to attract and retain good teachers. It is ridiculous and small minded to be opposed to it.

Then again, DCUM posters are often known to be both ridiculous and small minded. I just didn't expect them to be so hateful and ignorant.

Wait, the only people allowed to comment on this policy are people who work for charters? Of course they favor the policy, since they are unfairly advantaged. I love that anyone who gldoesnt favor your position must be a "teacher hater." Right. No one could possibly have a different perspective from you.[/quote]

Wait, work on that reading comprehension. No one said she can't comment. It's her opinion that she should have preference because she and her husband live and work near a bunch of charters. Irrelevant. We are discussing people who work at charters, not people who live near them. It's pretty insulting to teachers for her to equate the two, which certainly makes her look like a teacher hater.

I never said you couldn't have a different perspective. Have at it. But I can think you are a teacher hater if you think it is some sort of terrible injustice that teachers who have invested in the school (and your children, if you are a parent at the school) do not deserve an easy perk that would aid in retention and potentially offset the issues of being underpaid compared to the public school counterparts. Also, there are very few spots that would likely be lost for teacher preference. Look at the profiles of, and retention rates, of charter school teachers and you can see for yourself that this is not a huge problem.

In terms of being so concerned about lost spots, you don't seem to have an issue with sibling preference. You chose not to address that part of my post at all. So you must support sibling preference. So, you do support preferences, and a preference involving many, many more spots than a teacher preference. Convenient to be in favor of a preference you might enjoy, but not one a teacher might. But I'm supposed to see that as teacher hating...[/quote]

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