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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK. Lets be honest folks.[b] So much of what happens at the school depends on the principal. Period. Some schools have 2 or more ESOL teachers and only a part time AART. Hmmm, where's the focus and on whom, exactly? [/b]

The general ed. education is not tiered, as it should be, and it is too diverse on every level.

Our principal is 99% focused on minority and ESOL kids, even though the majority of our school is Caucasian, not FARMS, and speaks fluent English. Last year, a parent inquired about running an after school program for language that would require use of the computer lab. School (administration) replied that this was a no go as our school utilizes the computer lab for English instruction for ESOL. Really? Kids already get ESOL instruction during the school day. Can't we please use it to teach our kids a second language? Another, the parents wanted FLES a few years back, as it was opened to all ES, Principal need only request. Again, no thank you, we have  ESOL students who are learning English and this would be too much for them.

So, yes, I encourage all to appeal and fight like hell if rejected, if you want your child to get a decent education in a system that continually favors to the minority (in numbers).

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Clearly you have no idea how schools are staffed. The principal is assigned a part-time AART based on the number of students at the school. He or she doesn't even interview them. As for ESOL, those positions are given to the school based on a formula. The principal does have flexibility in who is hired and can decide to use those positions as straight up classroom teachers or as ESOL resource teachers that serve students across several classrooms. [/quote]

Then how did my boys' ES always have a fulltime AAP/GT teacher on staff?  Since at least 2002?
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Because the size of your school meant that a full-time AART was warranted. I was responding to the poster who was inferring that a part-time AART was the result of a principal's decision. As I re-read my post, I see that should have changed the verb tense to say "The principal WAS assigned a part-time AART..." I apologize for the confusion.  Note that if the principal has additional funding or positions to "trade in" he/she can "buy" an AART position. So a half-time AART could become full-time at a school if the principal has the resources and the desire to fund the other half of the position. [/quote]

The school was barely 500 kids at the time and we did not quality for a full time Art or AART/GT teacher.  The poster to whom I was replying, implied that a Principal could NOT increase an AART teacher's hours as they were decided elsewhere.   Based on my experience that is incorrect.  Our Principal moved things around so we had a full time Art teacher and a full time AART/GT teacher.  I think he depleted his teacher continuing education/training budget to do it, and the PTA replenished that.
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