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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 - 
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

Teacher #2
He's 80+ teaching foundations of computer science and everything he teaches the kids is outdated. He doesn't follow the curriculum so any kids in his class are then at a disadvantage for future CS classes at TJ. All this information was verified by a friend's husband who does programming professionally so knows the material he's teaching and methods are all way, way out of date.

Bottom-line:
How, at a top-notch school, do they not have better performance or even just-don't-suck standards for their teachers? TJ shouldn't be for every student or teacher. 
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Make sure TJ gets no bad teachers…the rest of FCPS should get them, right?!?![/quote]

It's a magnet school. It should not have teachers that hate their jobs or are not actually up-to-date on the material they are teaching. (By up to date, I mean the material is maybe over 20 years old). Some of that you might get away with at a regular school, but, no, I don't think **any** school deserves teachers that hate being a teacher or the job. Hence my suggestion that that teacher finds an admin position. [/quote]

FWIW, the basics of CS don't change. Like - the same boolean algebra that drove Babbage still applies. And guess what: will still be what CMU or MIT are expecting your kid to know if they go into CS in college.

Do software engineering best practices evolve rapidly? Sure. But you still have to know how logic gates work before you get there. Or how loops and conditionals work. And those are basically the same - with semantic differences - in BASIC or python. Sorry.[/quote]

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