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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, different things matter to different people. To me, the most important factor was teacher quality. I assessed this by going to open houses and tours during the school day and watching the lessons in person and by asking about teacher retention and teacher experience at each school. These things vary widely from school to school and, IMO, make an ENORMOUS impact on the educational experience.

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Can I ask how you were able to do this? We reached out to our IB school so many times to ask for information, a tour, literally anything they would be willing to tell us and never heard back. The huge webinar they did in December where you were supposed to be able to learn about the schools, was a complete waste of time. It just sent us to a YouTube video. How are people really supposed to assess their public school? [/quote]

Did you go to open houses? These are actually very useful.
After you get in somewhere, they will let you tour again.  For our IB school, I talked to the principal and set up a meeting with her, she brought in a bunch of math/reading specialists to talk to and i observed every classroom.

I also think there is data out there about teacher experience, maybe in the STAR reports somewhere. [/quote]

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