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I would be leery of getting information verified by "a friend's husband" and thinking that a "B" in PE is related to athletic ability. You are not there in the classroom and your information is second and third hand.

Your kid really needs to work hard to not get an A in PE.

Any able bodied kid who earns a B in PE should get grounded and have their electronics taken away by their parents.

There is a PE teacher at TJ that gives graded written tests.

Since you are obviously not me (the OP) can you verify that I'm not crazy? There is a problem PE teacher that everyone knows about?

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Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

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Anonymous wrote:What, precisely, is the 80 year old teacher teaching (or not teaching) that lead the husband considering his teaching to be out of date?

It was the coding techniques according to the Dad. Things that haven't been professionally in use for several decades.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

Teacher #2
He's 80+ teaching foundations of computer science and everything he teaches the kids is outdated. He doesn't follow the curriculum so any kids in his class are then at a disadvantage for future CS classes at TJ. All this information was verified by a friend's husband who does programming professionally so knows the material he's teaching and methods are all way, way out of date.

Bottom-line:
How, at a top-notch school, do they not have better performance or even just-don't-suck standards for their teachers? TJ shouldn't be for every student or teacher.

Make sure TJ gets no bad teachers…the rest of FCPS should get them, right?!?!

It's a magnet school. It should not have teachers that hate their jobs or are not actually up-to-date on the material they are teaching. (By up to date, I mean the material is maybe over 20 years old). Some of that you might get away with at a regular school, but, no, I don't think **any** school deserves teachers that hate being a teacher or the job. Hence my suggestion that that teacher finds an admin position.

Anonymous wrote:What, precisely, is the 80 year old teacher teaching (or not teaching) that lead the husband considering his teaching to be out of date?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

Teacher #2
He's 80+ teaching foundations of computer science and everything he teaches the kids is outdated. He doesn't follow the curriculum so any kids in his class are then at a disadvantage for future CS classes at TJ. All this information was verified by a friend's husband who does programming professionally so knows the material he's teaching and methods are all way, way out of date.

Bottom-line:
How, at a top-notch school, do they not have better performance or even just-don't-suck standards for their teachers? TJ shouldn't be for every student or teacher.

Make sure TJ gets no bad teachers…the rest of FCPS should get them, right?!?!

It's a magnet school. It should not have teachers that hate their jobs or are not actually up-to-date on the material they are teaching. (By up to date, I mean the material is maybe over 20 years old). Some of that you might get away with at a regular school, but, no, I don't think **any** school deserves teachers that hate being a teacher or the job. Hence my suggestion that that teacher finds an admin position.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. My freshman DS has the 80+ year old teacher. He complains all the time. I'm in CS myself and I think he is amazing. Maybe in a couple decades, my DS will realize how lucky he was to have such a treasure of an experienced teacher in high school.

Interesting - my friends Dad insisted that the material he's teaching is wrong and way out of date. That other classes are teaching it right and he's not.

That teacher was teaching at TJ when the new principal was a student there.

The 80-year-old teacher is incredibly engaging and one of the best—he teaches Python and Java, along with concepts like Boolean algebra. Many current TJ teachers who are also alumni were once his students. However, if a student isn’t genuinely interested in programming, they may struggle to earn good grades and might not enjoy his class.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. My freshman DS has the 80+ year old teacher. He complains all the time. I'm in CS myself and I think he is amazing. Maybe in a couple decades, my DS will realize how lucky he was to have such a treasure of an experienced teacher in high school.

Interesting - my friends Dad insisted that the material he's teaching is wrong and way out of date. That other classes are teaching it right and he's not.

That teacher was teaching at TJ when the new principal was a student there.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. My freshman DS has the 80+ year old teacher. He complains all the time. I'm in CS myself and I think he is amazing. Maybe in a couple decades, my DS will realize how lucky he was to have such a treasure of an experienced teacher in high school.

Interesting - my friends Dad insisted that the material he's teaching is wrong and way out of date. That other classes are teaching it right and he's not.

Anonymous wrote:NP. My freshman DS has the 80+ year old teacher. He complains all the time. I'm in CS myself and I think he is amazing. Maybe in a couple decades, my DS will realize how lucky he was to have such a treasure of an experienced teacher in high school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

Teacher #2
He's 80+ teaching foundations of computer science and everything he teaches the kids is outdated. He doesn't follow the curriculum so any kids in his class are then at a disadvantage for future CS classes at TJ. All this information was verified by a friend's husband who does programming professionally so knows the material he's teaching and methods are all way, way out of date.

Bottom-line:
How, at a top-notch school, do they not have better performance or even just-don't-suck standards for their teachers? TJ shouldn't be for every student or teacher.

Make sure TJ gets no bad teachers…the rest of FCPS should get them, right?!?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

What does the bolded mean?

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously you've never had a problem and that's why your kid is at TJ? That makes no sense.

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously your kid is at TJ, so... Again, this makes no sense.

You still have not explained why you think the teacher sharing about her stillbirth is at all related to her attendance or her attitude. Why did you think it was a set up?

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

Teacher #2
He's 80+ teaching foundations of computer science and everything he teaches the kids is outdated. He doesn't follow the curriculum so any kids in his class are then at a disadvantage for future CS classes at TJ. All this information was verified by a friend's husband who does programming professionally so knows the material he's teaching and methods are all way, way out of date.

Bottom-line:
How, at a top-notch school, do they not have better performance or even just-don't-suck standards for their teachers? TJ shouldn't be for every student or teacher.