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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of a kid who was at TR for years before and then the tail end of the pandemic I can assure you that none of the things people are blaming on Covid or Kristina or community meetings were newly discovered in the past few years. TR certainly offers a warm and nurturing ECE environment. The problem is and has always been that the school has no clue how to adjust for middle to upper ES and the changes in kids that accompany chronological age. I have no idea how EL is supposed to work, but certainly it can't be the way TR deploys it. They have always had a tail wagging the dog approach to core subjects. Instead of having a curriculum based on verb conjugation or core math principles they start with whatever the EL concept is and back into the core learning. It results in suboptimal educational outcomes and kids who are not prepared to study or learn. Kristina was incompetent and wielded race as a sword and shield to prevent the board or anyone else from asking hard questions. She was an EL consultant with little to no experience running anything. In many ways she was the poster child for what is wrong with TR; the Board focused on EL fluency and their principles of inclusion instead of core administration of an educational institution and learning. Covid merely exposed how unprepared and unserious she and the TR Board were.

When JO Wilson reopens in 2026 it will be the death knell for TR 4th street. I assume it will be shuttered by 2029 at the latest.  [/quote]

You're going to need ECE teachers at JO who actually like kids though. They barely go outside for recess if it's below 50 degrees, have the kids watch TV for indoor recess (which again, happens A LOT) and when they are outside, they don't play with the kids at all. No engagement at all. [/quote]

Weird take. JOW has received high marks for ECE for a number of years. Families avoid it due to 1st and up. Also, have you seen TR's "playground"? [/quote]

Oh I'm not pro TR by any means. I just don't think you all know JO. High marks for a number of years? Almost all those teachers are gone.  I can think of 4 that have left.[/quote]

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