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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should parents get a say at all whether teachers choose to work beyond their contract? [/quote]

This! Exactly. As a teacher who worked at TPMS and left for another school because of the additional workload, I hope they are able to figure something out. All the other schools in the county have the same system. TPMS was the one place where teachers were asked in their interviews if they are ok with teaching an additional class, which is how they were able to get around that.

The other issue is that they built up additional human capital by each teacher working a free period. They can't just increase class size, because they don't have the staffing for staffing additional classes when they stop having every teacher teach a class for free.

Also, thinking teaching magnet students is easier than teaching non-magnet students is just not true. There are different things that require your time and attention, like providing more challenging work, supporting those students with that work, and dealing with parents who can be a lot like some of the parents on this thread. Remember, too, that now it's just a lottery for magnet schools, so it's not that all students are actually coming with high readiness levels and the skills for these challenging classes.[/quote]

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