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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i would think the oyster Adams pta could donate enough to hire an extra math teacher. Sounds like there is interest![/quote]

Why not?  The OCC (Oyster's PTA) already pays for its music teacher.[/quote]

The OCC already subsidizes afterschool tutoring overtime pay for teachers and for coaching sessions for the SWW HS math exam. There are 3 middle school math teachers for [b]less than 190[/b] students.

Paying for another math teacher won't do anything if the existing structure isn't functioning. The new principal, who was a G&T student, has middle school background and is big on differentiation. There is absolutely no excuse for parents to have to pick up the slack in math.

The OCC is supposed to pay for things that DCPS does not provide even though, IMHO, it's ridiculous that they do not. Like an elementary music teacher for a campus of more than 300 students. The OCC pays for a [u]part-time[/u] music teacher for the elementary campus. We also pay for a part-time bilingual special education coordinator to handle the compliance and organization of a function that used to be a shambles. We previously paid for an award-winning science teacher for elementary because, again, DCPS didn't pay for the role.

There is a larger question of whether math should be taught in Spanish to begin with since kids are tested so much in English and the on-line tools are all in English. Personally, the language doesn't seem to impact my bilingual, bi-literate kids. Sometimes they say it's annoying to code switch, but that's the whole point of dual immersion. But a lot of parents, and even some of the elementary teachers, are complaining about the common core and DCPS scope and sequence.

Change has definitely come to O-A at the administrative and teaching levels. To compete with other MS options, the school needs to rely less on families supplementing (sometimes undermining) learning that's supposed to be happening in school.

We're in elementary. I'm giving it two years, tops to see some sustainable, meaning not heavily dependent on parents, improvement or we're taking our "involved" family to a school that will do its job. [/quote]

Thanks for this insight.  I am the mom of a K student at Oyster, so I really don't know what's going on in the middle school.  If there are 3 middle school math teachers, I agree that one can be spared to teach advanced math for 6th through 8th graders.  Oyster's PTA operates with a $600,000 budget, but parents should not be expected to pony up when resources/teachers are currently available.  Goodness knows I'm tired already of the constant fundraising at Oyster.[/quote]

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