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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Correct.  It wasn't a risk we were willing to take so we applied for private high school.  Why?  Our experience at Deal last year with teachers not showing up and also my experience of going to a really crappy high school and being underprepared for college. 
Other people's mileage and life experience will vary.  The thought of my kid missing an instructor for a high school class was like kryptonite for me.  Hence we're paying.  Others aren't set off by this as much as I was and they're comfortable with rolling the dice with Wilson. 
I always say, DCPS is great!  Until it isn't.  I was tired of the risk of the "isn't". [/quote]

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