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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No consistent teacher for a high school Computer Science class. It’s a series of short term subs who are babysitting the class. The curriculum is not being taught and this is a class my child needed as a technology credit. [/quote]

This was an issue in the summer, too. Ended up being a wasted class.[/quote]

It seems strange, but if there have to be long term subs (who know nothing about the subject) somewhere in the school, this is the course for it.  My dd took the same course a couple of years ago with a teacher who'd been there a long time (I think at the same school as this complaint came up in a more specific way at a PTA meeting) and every single class day was sitting at their computer and working through an existing tutorial website.  Like every class.  She admitted to me once that she sometimes just submitted anything to the website because the teacher didn't grade the material, just checked it off for completion.

She later took another computer science course, and two different classes (one beginning, one advanced) were in the same teacher/room.  And this worked because, again, there was no lecture or large class work per se.  Basically an independent study class.  In that class, apparently, the teacher knew a lot if you approached her with questions.  But students rarely did.

Don't get me wrong-- this is a terrible way to teach the class.  But actually, a LT sub can do it as well as anyone else.[/quote]

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