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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 10 math and 10 science Teachers for 7th and 8th grade at Carson. Most TJ applicants are going to ask their math Teacher for a recommendation. Do you think it is reasonable to ask a Teacher to write 10-20 recommendations? I would guess that you are looking at similar numbers at Longfellow, Cooper, and Rocky Run.

Maybe a general survey regarding each applicant is doable but that is about it. [/quote]

This is part of why the baseline would be a Likert-scale style survey, yes - but critically, they'd be evaluating the applicants largely against each other within the school. And again, you allow for them to write at greater length for some small maximum number.

10-20 recommendations for a middle school teacher is nothing - to be honest, I think the number would likely end up being somewhat greater. Longfellow and Carson teachers under the old system used to write a much larger number, and they were freeform letters that one had to put a considerable amount of thought into.

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I taught at a TJ feeder when teacher recs existed. Our principal would give us some sub hours to work on them. I never minded writing them.[/quote]

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