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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is something to keep in mind when choosing a school.

All those bright shiny teachers that MV hired are cute, but they don't have the classroom experience needed to handle the kids.  This is why I've never been attracted to the newer charters.  The true test comes when the cute but wiggly 3 year olds turn into huge kids with undiagnosed hyperactivity.  New teachers just don't know how to handle this.

Seasoned teachers learn how to redirect their problem students.  Seasoned teachers learn that you spend 70% of your time with 2-3 kids so that the other 22 kids in the classroom can actually learn once those 2-3 kids have been settled down.  New teachers think each child deserves equal attention and thus fail to spot the problems before they start.  Two years ago, my child was in a 2nd grad classroom with a kid who was badly behaved.  The seasoned teacher knew how to spot the signs of trouble, and the class functioned pretty well as a whole.  In 3rd grade, my son was in the classroom again with this problem child, and the new teacher had no idea what to do and the child ruled the roost; punching and kicking the other kids and throwing chairs.  [/quote]

New charters don't necessarily mean new teachers. In our research there are quite a few "new" charters that have experienced teachers. In fact MV is one of them. We found that some of their teachers are quite experienced. I think ITS average master teacher has like 15 years experience. CMI has a lot of newer teachers but they started the kids really young so have time to grow and they also have very small classes. My thought with MV is just that they are too large. I really wish they would have grown at a better pace.[/quote]

They had to expand or all the new spots would have gone to staff (new preference) or siblings. They ended up substituting one pr
disaster with another. [/quote]

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