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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are at Pyle, and neither was in the HGC although they are smart kids and engaged students. Most of their friends at Pyle are similar regardless of whether they attended the HGC. What has been most disappointing to me at Pyle is the lack of quality of the teaching. It makes little difference what the course descriptions say and how smart the peer group is [b]if the teachers themselves are not engaged in the material and don’t encourage class discussions or thinking beyond the set materials. [/b]So unless the teachers are being trained to new standards for the differentiated classes, I can’t see them providing anything like the experience of what the magnets do. [/quote]

I fail to see how you can confidently make this generalization.  Unless you've traveled with your child(ren) throughout the day from grade 6 to grade 8, you simply cannot state that teachers aren't engaged.

This is another ignorant statement made by an entitled parent, as I see it.

So if this is indeed the case - b/c perhaps you've done your own study - you times 50 other similar parents would indeed squash a teacher's desire to reach beyond any instructional guide.[/quote]

Of course it is a generalization - as is your opinion. Mine is based on actually talking to my kids, asking specific questions of them and of other parents, at least the other parents who I know pay attention to what is going on in their kids’ school and don’t just take Pyle’s “great reputation” at face value. And I have come as close as possible to travelling with each of my kids from class to class, in that I attend each open house during the school day and goto back to school night and conferences. These are moments when typically teachers are on their top game, and even then it is apparent that many are less than inspiring. For the record, my kids (between the two of them) have had a handful of teachers who seem great - but as your point out, that, too, is a generalization so who really knows. [/quote]

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