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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know kids who are having a good year and kids who are having a horrific year.

Kids in a school of 2200 kids will have a WIDE range of experiences.

My kid was in 8th grade at Deal last year and had a horrible year because he had an ELA teacher who just didn't show up for 50% of the calls. Then the teacher would routinely take personal calls during class and would log-off to talk.  This 
happened all.the.time.  
Another team had a history teacher who also rarely if ever showed up.  This teacher also took personal calls during class and would routinely leave the class . This teacher was eventually dismissed. 
However, 3 of the teams had teachers who always showed up and did a great job.  So ask a former 8th grade parent about their virtual Deal experience and you get VASTLY different responses.[/quote]

But as a parent, that's not good enough. I mean, I'm not ok with a 50/50 shot at my kid learning anything in a high school year. There are alwasy bad teachers and some bad experiences, but the percentage of teaching issues seems abnormally high for a public high school. [/quote]

Part of this problem is the lack of substitutes in the area. I’m not excusing the teacher but if you need time off and there are no subs, what do you do? The pandemic has really sucked, esp for teachers.[/quote]

Well then that's even more of a reason not to have a 4X4 structure. It's putting too many eggs in one basket if there is a concern about substitutes. [/quote]

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