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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the private school teacher: can you be a bit more specific about what you've seen at your school that isn't working? Will you consider other private schools for your kids?[/quote]

The school bought a ton of new technology, but did no teacher training on how to use it most effectively in the classroom and the administration has been not willing to discuss the developmental implications of the technology they chose (which cannot be monitored by an outside user, like a parent or teacher, efficiently).  The technology is not being used effectively in the classroom by more than a couple of people, but those teachers and those classes are always used as the example for what is going on in the whole school.  There are a host of field trips, some multi-day, that do not have a connection to what is being done in the classroom.  Follow up or preparation for these trips is minimal and the "service learning" is tangential at best.  Schedule changes result in cancellation of classes, often without rescheduling, such that some sections have now met a week and a half less than their peers (but the pictures from the pep rally sure look good in the alumni brochure).  Individual educational testing data is no longer shared with the teachers, which makes differentiation and accommodation for students impossible.  Also, we are not supposed to discuss discipline issues, even amongst our colleagues.  This last one really ties my hands because if something happens outside my classroom and I don't know about it, I cannot be proactive about preventing that from manifesting in my classroom.

Now, most of the time classes run smoothly, so it's not a "problem", but I would like to think that the school where my kids are learning isn't waiting for the problem to happen, but is actively working to put every resource at the hand of their teachers to know them and educate them in the best way possible.  Add that I'd be paying a significant amount of money, even with reduced tuition, and the current situation becomes unacceptable to me.  I don't feel like I can know *all* my students, so I can't see how other teachers will truly know my kids.

We are doing our research right now with regard to other private schools, but the value added doesn't seem worth the tuition at this point.  There are good public options, and although the lottery systems seems not for the faint of heart, we are hearing many very positive stories from friends who have decided to keep their children in DCPS or DCPCS.[/quote]

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