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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP teacher (couple).  NO ONE values the  education of their children more than teachers.  Look to where teachers send their children to school.  That's a hint to the better schools: we find out about the best teachers, best admin. We do our research.

If for some reason  things change down the line, we move/pull out.  We don't waste our time in disappointing schools. 
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The admin is the issue.  I'm surprised they don't have more turnover.[/quote]

There is very little turnover. THAT should tell you something about the admin. If staff members aren’t happy, they would leave[/quote]

My kids have been at the school for several years.  We've had [b] huge turnover in vice principals [/b]and other staff.  We've lost staff too.  I've also seen how the admin treat teachers and don't support their or the parents concerns for the kids.  Not including how some kids are treated.  They don't allow parent volunteers as they don't want parents seeing or knowing what is going on.[/quote]

And this is because the assistant principal position is generally supposed to be a 2-year program. If the a.p. is a good one, they move on to be a principal at a different school. There really hasn’t been a lot of turnover in staff. With the new two-way immersion program, there will be new staff members at the grade levels implementing the Spanish/English dual instruction. A certain number of staff at these grade levels must be bilingual, which means new staff members [/quote]

Also, in the specific case of OTES, the former AP *moved* to another state.  It's flat-out false to say there's "huge turnover" at the school.

Look, I get it.  There's one or maybe two parents on this board who despise OTES and seem to have an issue with the principal.  The fact that ~75% of the teachers have been there 5+ years tells you all you need to know about the strength of the administration.  If the teachers didn't like their administrators, they'd leave.  Just the opposite occurs.  The Flora Singer example above is the same: PP is either misinformed or purposely lying about the reason OTES teachers moved to Singer.

OP, we're happy there and have a younger kid starting K this year.  We're excited about the immersion program and glad to be part of the community.  Every school has its challenges, but overall, we're very happy where we are.  Good luck![/quote]

One of the other APs that left was taken to be an acting principal (of my kids’ school), even though he hadn’t done an internship year.  If anything, that specific instance shows that admin is actually pretty good.  I’m a MCPS teacher, and OTES has a good reputation.  I have a close friend who happily taught there for many years until his recent retirement (and was always trying to convince me to apply whenever an opening came up).[/quote]

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