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[quote=Anonymous]As a former Feynman teacher I would advise you to look elsewhere for an education in the Washington D.C. area. Feynman is creating a large amount of learning gaps in their students, consistently hires teachers without proper training, education, or experience, reprimands teachers who are using methods they have learned in higher education programs, and solely cares about money. This school is NOT the school for you if you want your child to be educated properly, and NOT the school for you if you want to actually teach using proper methods and pedagogues.

The Head of School is afraid of losing customers, therefore upon parent complains she tells teachers they must change what they are doing even if the teacher is collecting positive data from their lessons (which is rare because the lessons are not data driven because many of the teachers have no past teaching experience or licenses.) The Head of School sends students, parents, other teachers, and substitutes to spy on her teachers after receiving a parent complaint (whether the complaint is true or false) rather than observing the classroom herself. The Head of School wants the lessons to be based in "play" rather than content, and more than half the time the lessons are fluff and there is no actual written learning objective (upon entering employment at the school after previously teaching elsewhere I found that many of the staff members had no experience even writing a proper lesson plan, let alone a learning objective or SLO). The Head of School's main focus is PR, and as a teacher at the school I was asked to stop sending home the work that the students were completing in class, and start sending home more "rigorous" looking work. I was asked to sit down with a "specialist" at the school who gave me a lesson in PR so that I could better please the parents. The parents are not actually receiving correct information about their students, and this is also prevalent in the Narratives the parents receive rather than report cards. The Narratives are not based in daily data but how could they be? The school does not give out grades and reprimands teachers for assigning written work rather than solely play based activities. Play is good, but only in combination with true learning experiences.

If a parent donates to the school, their child gets to do and say whatever he/she wants. That is the bottom line. Donate some money and your kid is set at Feynman.[/quote]

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