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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The problem is BASIS gets rid of the good ones who realize they can have stability and better pay working for Fairfax Public.[/quote]

That makes no sense.[/quote]

Teachers can make more money, have easier jobs and job security if they work virtually anywhere else. They obviously aren't going to leave BASIS to go work in some garbage DCPS school, but if there's a nice gig in some cushy high-achieving suburban district, they're going to go. And they do. My friends' kids lost all their best teachers from BASIS and had to go on wild goose hunts in the burbs to track them down and try to get college references.

This isn't even a complaint about BASIS, it's just what happens when you don't have union teachers. You can attract some good ones, but you'll never be able to keep them in the long-run. The good ones, at least.[/quote]

What now? I guess the incredibly strong union at DCPS is the reason DCPS is the best school system in the US...

Do you even know what the words you type mean?[/quote]

Why are you talking about DCPS?[/quote]

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