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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the record, physics at Wilson has been really hit or miss for years.  My kid had a class where the teacher didn't make any effort to control the class, and all but a small handful of kids (according to DS) got extremely low scores on the AP test -- 1s and 2s.  DS tried to learn on his own, but he said class time was a total waste since he couldn't hear anything the teacher was saying over 27 kids talking to each other at full volume all class long.

When I approached the teacher about this, he (teacher) said (paraphrasing) "Thanks for the feedback.  Really highly rated/senior teachers like me never get any feedback from the admin, so it's good to hear."  Which sounds nice, but basically was a way of saying "I'm a senior teacher and I know what I'm doing, f-off."  I was kinda shocked -- given the total lack of classroom management skills, I assumed he was new to teaching.  And I know that Wilson may have some challenging students, but there are many teachers with strong classroom management skills at Wilson, and the difference (with the same population of kids) between their classes and classes like my kid's AP physics class is night and day.[/quote]

The physics department is unfortunately very weak at Wilson. Good physics teachers are very hard to find and worth their weight in gold.[/quote]

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