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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all if the teachers were "ineffective" they wouldn't be in the classroom. Bottom line. There are check and balances that ensure that your child has competent teacher at the helm. The same checks and balances that you complain take up so much of the teacher's time. [b]Yes the elephant in the room is the lack of a workable contract[/b] and the confines of IMPACT. Part of the EOY paperwork teachers have to present is a snapshot of the successes they have had throughout the year. Presentation of data, student work, and more justifying why they should keep their job the next year. So an ineffective teacher would be gone.  :roll: So you really think that your offspring would do as well without having their so-called ineffective teacher at the helm? I highly doubt it. You might do a lot at home but they are still learning at school. Teachers in DC are smart, creative, and resourceful. They face a lot of challenges but they overcome for the sake of all of the children, not just yours. Instead of turning against them why don't you support them? [quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So why not go to other school systems that have better outcomes and teachers????

Sitting around complaining about the very school system you put your children in --and the people you entrust them to--doesn't make you look terribly smart, educated, or even a good parent. As disinterested and disenfranchised and many DCPS families are, at least they believe in the school system they send their children to every day.[/quote]

It's because we are smart and good parents that our children will do great in a substandard system. We're not worried for ourselves. We share a city with children that do not have the same support at home but experience the same uneven education at school. Also, I think this thread hits a nerve with some parents because it's not just the last two weeks of the school year. It's a reminder of all of the times throughout the school year that instructional time was lost and indicative of a larger problem. 
If you think that concerned parents should self-deport so ineffective teachers can keep their jobs, I disagree. What will happen when all of the children scoring 5 and most of the children scoring 4 on the PARCC leave for the suburbs on your advice? How will that improve the situation in DCPS?[/quote]

Smart and good parents don't put their children in a substandard school system, leave them there, brag about doing so and bitterly complain about the system.

Smart, good parents don't put their children in a substandard school system. Period.

Smart, good parents don't entrust their children to ineffective teachers day after day.

And does showing movies at the end of the year really make a teacher ineffective?

The bottom line is that you are and can remain bitter that DCPS isn't falling over backwards to please you and your 4 and 5-scoring children. No one cares if you head for the burbs with them. But if you were such a smart, good parent, you would. [/quote][/quote]

I'm curious, beyond the lack of the pay increase, what are the other major issues keeping the negotiations from moving forward? The only one I have heard is the objection from my kids teachers is to a 1% pay raise and a 7 year old contract. I thought the new salary scales boosted all teachers up substantially so I'm wondering why 1% is such a problem if, say 5 years ago a base salary was increased 20%.

http://dcps.dc.gov/page/compensation-lift-and-impactplus[/quote]

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