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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funds for specials should have a minimum of one fully funded art and one fully funded music teacher per school. Period. I do not care if there are 40 students or 400.

This might push DCPS to make the hard decisions about closing under enrolled or too small schools or even failing schools. Don’t make schools scrimp on important things like enrich,ent.[/quote]

Come on, that is just strange.  The kids are supposed to get each special once a week.  What is the teacher supposed to do the rest of the time?  Cancel math so the kids get more music?

Our school has part-timers in those positions and it is fine.  You are just being ornery.[/quote]

No I’m not. There are no schools with 40 students, do that was obvious hyperbole. If specials teachers have extra time, they can be hall or lunch room monitors or help out struggling readers (as many schools have volunteers do) or chaperone field trips or act as an aide in ECE classrooms or shelve library books. There are never enough adults in a school that there is NOTHING for them to do. [/quote]

WTF?  Why on earth would it benefit a school to have a music teacher acting like a classroom aide?  They would have to pay a teacher's salary for aide work, it would be a huge waste of money.  And nobody goes to teaching school so that they can spend half their time as a floater aide.

A part-time specials teacher is perfectly adequate and is nowhere, anywhere even close to the biggest problem facing DCPS' smaller schools.  Exactly what is it that you think kids are missing out on if they don't have this?  [/quote]

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