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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is ridiculous.

To a person my experience with teachers has been wonderful and I hope they all are well compensated with good benefits.

My understanding is that the PTA does not generally pay salaries directly (but I missed the presentation at open house so maybe this has changed), they generally cover other expenses so that there is more money left in the budget for salaries paid by DCPS, it would always be preferable to do that.

I don't get the vitriol towards the idea that there could be more than one certified teacher in a single classroom.  If you have 40 kids that could have two teachers in two classrooms, why couldn't you have two teachers for those same 40 kids in one room?  And if this is allowed, where is the prohibition that makes it impossible in a 30 student class?   And frankly why do you care so much about it if your kids don't go there.

I am so pleased Janney's test scores have dropped, maybe fewer people will be obsessed with the school.  I certainly did not send my kids there for the test prep and I love that they do not pressure kids about the tests.[/quote]

Some people care about workers' rights, wherever they work. It's frankly one of thee reasons many in DC hate charters - [b]because they don't pay teachers well [/b]or offer them the benefits of a unionized teaching position. In exchange for tighter credentials / hiring criteria teachers receive great benefits and a modicum of job security.

To have people who are called teachers but not compensated as such, working side by side with unionized teachers, strikes them as wrong. [/quote]

Flat out wrong.  Some pay as well as DCPS, and obviously offer vastly superior working conditions.  Read a few teacher blogs of new teachers in DCPS and you'll get a sense of the hazard pay some of them deserve.  Meanwhile, educators can teach at a charter for better wages and working conditions that are worth a magnitude of difference in quality-of-life points.[/quote]

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