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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't consider a public parent chat with the head to be an appropriate forum to discuss unhappiness with a particular teacher [/quote]

[b]Well then the school needs to put in place a "forum" or method for parents to air their concerns. [/b]That said, there are "complaints" made about individual teachers directly to the top. [/quote]

Completely agree.  We get surveys about "school climate" and so on, but why don't parents get a chance to review teachers?  One of my children has one now that is not doing a good job.  There isn't any way to raise this.  As far as the head of school goes, one of the complaints about him is that he doesn't get rid of ineffective teachers.  So the board hired new division heads that, at least as far as the one who heads my children's current division goes, is a terrible hire.  Yet they would rather stick with the new people than the old.  So out he goes and we get administrators who do not inspire confidence in the least.

I think the reason parents have turned to DCUM so much this year is that the Board has gone off in a really bad direction and people feel there is nowhere else to turn.  I know I hope that, by publicizing the issues, the Board might start to take them seriously because nothing else seems to be working.  After today's e-mail announcing certain departures, it's hard not to feel like it is a sinking ship. Some of those people needed to go, but more of them needed to stay and become part of the solution.[/quote]

Agree, there need to be individual teacher evaluations filled out by students and parents at the end of each year. The only trouble is that the complaints at this school are all over the place and I suspect that is why they have had trouble getting a grip. There are some selfish parents who care only about their little child, who might be "smarter", who dominates everything, some on the board themselves. Also, most parents don't know good teachers. They judge the teacher on silly things like how fast they responded to an email, or how much smiling goes on. The best teacher we have ever had there (4th grade) did no smiling and often ignored e-mail, and I was happy with her. The smiley warm fuzzy ones can be the laziest, sly ones who teach nothing but tell parents how wonderful Johnny is. I have never seen so much dysfunction, some teachers themselves are laughing at the mess privately, I know this. [/quote]

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