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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room.  It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. [b]What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year [/b]the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.[/quote]

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.  [/quote]

+1.  Plenty of good and bad teachers at DCPS schools like Walls and they can’t get rid of the bad ones.[/quote]

They could get rid of them.  But they don’t.[/quote]

Not really. The way the WTU deal is structured it is virtually impossible to move quickly on bad teachers. WTU will defend even the worst among them as to not let precedent hurt them in the future. Best case for a truly bad teacher is they get moved to another school and/or put in an administrative role where they then get paid and rewarded for being terrible at their jobs.

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