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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Deal really had a problem with teachers not showing up for classes and/or handling their personal business during class during the pandemic. We almost never received any notification of canceled classes, just a series of one no-show after another. It appeared that there was no supervision to ensure the teachers actually taught the classes.[/quote]

I assume this is different this year now that not virtual?[/quote]

We aren't having this issue on my 6th grader's team.  Her teachers are great and in great contrast to our older kid who had a horrible experience last year. 
However, there are 15 different teams of kids in the school.  I have no idea what is happening on the other 14.
[b]That's the thing: any single person's experience is only applicable to 1/15th of the school[/b] (or 2/15th's for those with two kids). 
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True, but it's helpful to know how often kids are winding up "unlucky". As a prospecitve Wilson parent, the idea that they could be missing 1/2 of AP phsysics instruction, for instance, is horrifying. [/quote]

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