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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so annoyed by this important discussion being derailed by misinformation about teacher tenure.  Teachers did not cause these kids' deaths by suicide.  Depression did.

There is NO teacher tenure in Virginia.  None.  People are profoundly misinformed.  Teachers reach continuing contract status after 3 years, but they are still subject tho the same evaluation and observation cycles, it's just that the summarize evaluation is every three yard rather than every year.  Still, the system can out a teacher on admin leave for malfeasance, and can fire a teacher with due process by documenting deficiencies and giving the teacher an opportunity to improve.  It doesn't actually take much to document and fire a teacher.

In addition, many principals have the power to pressure a tea her to resign by threatening their teaching license.  It's done all the time when principals want a teacher out ASAP.[/quote]

This is 11:33, and not once did I suggest "tenure" or "unions" were responsible for the lack of accountability that can exist within FCPS.  That is largely besides the point.

To be clear, we've had generally good  experiences with FCPS, but the one bad experience we had was appalling, in that a teacher ridiculed our child in front of other students, rebuffed our efforts to meet when it was clear our child was struggling in her class, provided no additional resources or materials to supplement her classroom instruction, and did not show up when he went to her class after hours as directed for additional help.  When we complained, we were told to wait a semester and regaled with tales of how some students who had this teacher did very well and got 5s on AP exams.  Only after we made it clear we were prepared to pull our child out of the school if he was not reassigned, and then file a lawsuit, did he get a new teacher, at which point his grade improved from an F to a B+.  As this was finally happening, school counselors and administrators finally opened us in private conversations and told us that this teacher was the subject of more complaints than any other teacher in the school and that they were eagerly awaiting the day when this woman would retire or die, because they knew the principal - who was a big cheerleader for the school  - would not lift a finger.  So please don't suggest that teachers in FCPS are uniformly held to rigorous professional standards, because that is not always the case. [/quote]

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