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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 24 The oddness is the poster who repearedly said that tenured teachers are causing all the undo pressure on Fairfax County high school students.

That is the most laughable thing I have heard in a long time.[/quote]
NP. No need to be extreme, so let's be accurate. Tenured teachers can cause unique chalenges, aka problems.[/quote]

I do think it's stressful when there are so many standardized tests but such a lack of consistency and accountability where teachers are concerned.  Some of the top schools in FCPS love to take credit for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions, but barely lift a finger when a teacher treats students with hostility and disdain.  If you are at a school where most students succeed academically, it is very easy for the school to blow you off when your child struggles and tell you how well other students do on AP or IB exams, etc, which will only make your child feel worse.

From what I can tell, Langley may have raised this to an art form, and of course the parents and students who thrive in such an environment will defend it at length, but it can be very rough.  For example, the programs for the fall sports banquets at Langley for many years also identified if the players also had at least 3.5 GPAs, so no opportunity was lost to remind everyone who was and was not doing better academically.  [/quote]

You are correct. What I am hearing from students is that it's the parents, and I agree parents play a huge part. What I tell these students is that it administration's job to keep difficult parents at bay and not let them change the climate at the school for all. While Ragone, is a nice guy, he is not tough enough to administrate in this fashion.

The sports banquets exposing kids GPAs is a bad precedent to set.

When I would walk the halls of Langley, the posters on the wall were all about 'make sure you get enough sleep' and 'this is how to reduce stress'. There was nothing about 'choose the college that suits YOU best', etc.

Again, if you need to bring in special counselors to handle stress and have coffees with parents who are concerned about the stress their kids are under, you would do much better as an administrator to make changes within the school itself regarding the sources of stress. Police your teachers better by setting limits to the amount of homework they are giving. Watch the grades coming out of the classrooms - if a particular teacher has a number of complaints or a large amount of kids not doing well, find out where the problems lie and fix them. If the problem IS that teacher and they refuse to comply, make his/her life difficult enough that they either change or leave. Reward teachers who are doing a good job. Make sure teachers work together, not against each other and make sure they are aware that kids have after school activities and their time is limited due to that. A kid who stays up until 12 or 1 most nights, then wakes up at 5:30 is going to be at risk. [/quote]

No 16 or 17 year old high school student who needs to wake up at 5:30am, should be required to stay up past 9 or 10pm (let alone midnight or worse) just to complete basic homework assignments.

That's insane, you people. The kids can wait until college for that nonsense if they want to try it out. Don't allow it at home.

The teachers need to get a grip on what their doing here.

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