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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Did the protest at Cook happen too?

The flyer at the twitter link says:
Enough is Enough
Our kids deserve better
3rd grade caregivers are writing to demand a response. We asking for:
Two adults in all 3rd grade classrooms for the remainder of SY 22/23
Commitment to at least 2 hour of actual instruction in Math and ELA each day for the remainder of SY 22/23
Additional academic support (tutoring, summer programming, after care enrichment, etc) specifically for 3rd grade students
An additional teacher (or aide) for each teaching pair for SY 23/24

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Okay, hold on now. I'm no MV booster (far from it!), but [b]how many schools have two teachers/aides per classroom in third grade[/b]? What does an additional teacher/aide for each teaching pair mean? A third adult in the classroom half of the time? How many charters provide tutoring, summer academics, and academics in after care?

Without context this seems like a lot to ask from a charter school, and even DCPS when it comes to having two adults in the classroom. Is this a post-pandemic issue with third grade (who did K and 1st virtually)? Has there not been enough intervention to get those kids caught up? Are classrooms totally out of control that they need 2-3 adults in third grade every day? I deleted my Twitter, but can anyone see the comments to see (hopefully) more details?

I'd really love more information because I came here fully ready to pile on MV, but it's a charter school, not DCPS, they don't HAVE to offer all of the bells and whistles if they don't want to. [/quote]

Re the bolded above, Inspired Teaching has at minimum a lead teacher and an assistant teacher or teaching resident in each classroom.[/quote]

I will say "assistant teacher" is a term ITS uses when other schools might call the person an aide. Teaching residents are in half the classrooms or less.

ITS does have a high adult-child ratio, and it keeps teacher salaries low, for sure. But that feels fair to me. If ITS went to a more DCPS-like staffing model, they could pay more DCPS-like salaries.[/quote]

ITS teacher salaries are higher than Mundo.[/quote]

I'm not sure if that's true, how did you find out?

It seems like MV was founded on the idea that parents would be willing to contribute enough money to make the budget support the kind of school that they wanted. And that's not crazy-- it's basically how Ward 3 operates. But the Achilles heel of that model is when parents get dissatisfied, the fundraising tanks, and then you're in a bad situation and enter that bad budget situation of having empty seats so less money coming in. It's hard to pull out of that kind of spiral.

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The annual reports on the charter board website with teacher salary (starting, average, max). Mundo also has their pay online.[/quote]

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