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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surveys are written and analyzed according to mathmatical probabilities. Questions can be asked and answers quantified in such a way that they eliminate the responses like "I hate school and spinach too".

Dr. Garza is a new Superintendant and a scientific survey and analysis of student opinions of their entire experiences since Kindergarten would be very insightful. FCPS is a massive system with tons of inertia and staff covering their asses. She needs separate surveys of students and parents to mine data and to fully understand the system she has inherited.

However, back to the issue at hand which is why the OP should consider their options carefully. FCPS has state-of-the-art technology in every classroom. Every classroom has an LCD projector and with the exception of perhaps projecting the day's agenda or showing movies on thro away days they are just gathering dust. WHY!!!

There are high quality educational PowerPoint presentations available on every single lesson in every single subject imaginable and yet the LCD projectors in FCPS are nothing more than dust collectors. WHY!!!

[b]The reason is it takes prep work to give a presentation. [/b]To give a presentation you are required to demonstrate mastery of the subject you are teaching and you may have to field some difficult questions.

[b]For FCPS teachers it's far easier to explain an assignment and to deduct for grammatical errors than it is to stand and deliver about passages in the Merchant of Venice. 
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In FCPS equiptment goes unused for its intended purposes and the instruction is stuck on autopilot. [/quote]

We get it now; your child wrote a report and you felt the content was decent, but their grade was lowered for grammatical errors. You feel this is unjustified, so you have gone on numerous rants instead of talking to the teacher (or having your HS age child talk to the teacher).

Regarding the Powerpoints and other things that take time to put together, teachers don't have the time to do it because of all the standardized testing they are required to give.  Practice tests, and actual tests take up instructional time..whole class periods, fairly frequently. So, they do have to do the typical lectures. If you don't find that exciting, then talk to the state legislatures that are trying to decrease the numbers of SOL tests.

That would be far more useful than what you are doing.[/quote]

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