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[quote=Anonymous]I'm one of the original families and we have found that YY has no higher teacher retention rate than any other charter school in their first 5 years of operation. We've had some great teachers who have stayed, some who were great and left after one year, and others who were not good at all. Overall, the teaching staff suffers from lack of experience in its ranks and leadership. But they, like many new teachers, often are successful by trying to make up for it with enthusiasm and long hours. Sometimes that works well and they achieve success, and sometimes it burns them out and they leave. It is the normal process of charter schools.  The low pay, coupled with leadership and hiring issues already mentioned on here, doesn't attract very many experienced teachers. Several of the English teachers, special education teachers, the vice principal and the special education coordinator are Teach for America so they get some outside support, but they arrive with only a month's worth of teaching experience. They hold and maintain very high standards for the kids and work their butts off to try to attain them, but they just don't always have the ways to achieve them.[/quote]

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