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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In elementary, is not really the cluster that matters, but the school itself.
Go to the website, under schools, then schools at a glance, where you could find all the stats of each school.
One of the categories for teachers is years of experience. [b]Those schools with low % of 0-5 years of experience are the good ones, since most teachers have experience. They will be able to take whatever is being thrown to them, adapt it and teach it without getting confused.[/b]
Those school with a large % of brand new teachers will have difficulty. It also depends on the number of school-based "specialists", who work from their offices and do not have classrooms. Most have been in the system for decades, and can get full retirement but choose not to. In order to balance their high salaries, the school hires young teachers straight out of college.
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I used to think more experienced teachers were best, but not anymore. DD's first grade teacher had been teaching for 25 years when DD had her. She got flustered, had poor classroom management, wouldn't respond to e-mails, and was the total kill and drill type.  DD is now in third grade with a second year teacher who is in all ways better than the veteran teacher from first grade. [/quote]

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