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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead, DCPS spent a fortune devising its own ground-breaking, complicated, one-size fits-all punitive system that's been an utter disaster, and their only defense is to spin stories about it.[/quote]
Why specifically do you say it's been an utter disaster?  It's identified ineffective teachers and removed them from the system.  Isn't that what it's supposed to do?

It seems like the main weakness of PPEP was that it created a never-ending administrative process that discouraged school administrators from removing ineffective teachers.  And from what I gather, IMPACT has streamlined that process.  So in that respect, it seems like a success.  Of course with any system -- whether it's IMPACT or a revised PPEP -- people can argue endlessly about whether it had false positive (removing teacher who weren't so bad) or false negatives (failing to spot bad teachers).  But that's all pretty subjective.  And if the rating system needs to be adjusted to reduce false positives or false negatives, that's tinkering that will doubtlessly be done in later years.

I'm not trying to be argumentative or difficult.  Maybe there are dozens of reasons IMPACT is ineffective.  But I have not seen anyone on this thread describe what they are.  Could you please list them out?  (And I fully understand you hate IMPACT, but it would really help me if you'd try to list them objectively without lots of anti-IMPACT rhetoric.  All the rhetorical attacks make it harder to follow your point.)  Many thanks.[/quote]

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