Anonymous wrote:I just wish our school board would drop all of the social and political stuff, and only focus kn the core school mission of literacy, math, science and academics/arts.

One of the gold standards for professional and social interactions is that you NEVER discuss politics, religion, sex or race with others who are not your intimate circle.

Our fcps has decided their mission is to put our poor teachers in a situation where they have to not only talk about, but promote and inject into their lessons, those hot button issues of politics, religion, sex and race every single day, whether they want to or not.

The school board knows these issues and themes are going be controversial. They know that no matter what position is taken, someone, somewhere is going to be offended, enraged, and activated.

Yet the school board makes incorporating hot button social issues into every facet of the curriculum and school culture their entire focus. Why on earth would the leadership do this to the teachers.

Imagine going into work every single day, knowing that your boss and company leadership are going to make you say things, do things and articulate positions that are 100% guaranteed to make one or many of your clients blow their top, send you angry emails, go to your supervisors, blast you online, or go to the media??

We are talking about people who went into their profession because they like to have reading time on the rug or do art projects. Who spend all summer finding interesting ways to talk about Shakespeare. Who are math geeks or history fanatics. Who are teaching because they want to coach football. Or who just want summer vacation and two weeks off at Christmas.

Yet every single day, they have to go to work knowing that our Gatehouse, superintendent and school board are hard at work on finding ways to incorporate the latest social fad or political controversy as The. Most. Important. focus of FCPS. Not literacy. Not math. Not life skills or trades.

What dread our teachers must have going into work, not knowing when or which day the leaders are going to decree from high the next fad social political idea that teachers are going to have to field, knowing that these idiotic decisions from leadership are going to get them yelled at by some parent, somewhere, who is very justifiably upset that their kids are being taught controversial things that have nothing to do with the subjects being taught, are not age appropriate and not what the teacher signed up to teach.

No one, no where, would be able to handle that constant work stress that teachers are having to manage thanks to our school board and old superintedent.

It is not surprising that many of them are quitting.

They aren't being allowed to do the job they were hired to do, and their bosses are regularly creating duties that are going to get the teachers yelled at.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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So they get paid the teacher trainee salary for more work days or they get paid more to start an earlier contract?

DP: I think it's a question of supply/demand. That said, these teacher trainees are able to get a job that others have had to do quite a bit of extra education to obtain (albeit at a slightly lower starting salary) and they will be able to do their student teaching "on the job"-- so I don't think it would be unfair that they be paid that salary for more work days in exchange.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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So they get paid the teacher trainee salary for more work days or they get paid more to start an earlier contract?

DP: I think it's a question of supply/demand. That said, these teacher trainees are able to get a job that others have had to do quite a bit of extra education to obtain (albeit at a slightly lower starting salary) and they will be able to do their student teaching "on the job"-- so I don't think it would be unfair that they be paid that salary for more work days in exchange.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

I don't believe this.

I believe it. FCPS sucks shit and AAP is complete bullshit. The only real way to gain a good education in Vaginia is private school.

Yep, I’ll take education advice from someone who can’t even spell the name of this state.

Look closely. They spelled it that way on purpose. That is one of the haters that is regularly posting here.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

I don't believe this.

I believe it. FCPS sucks shit and AAP is complete bullshit. The only real way to gain a good education in Vaginia is private school.

Yep, I’ll take education advice from someone who can’t even spell the name of this state.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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So they get paid the teacher trainee salary for more work days or they get paid more to start an earlier contract?

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

Start the trainee on August 1st for teacher training and trainees take Praxis and VCLA test before school starts.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

That's fine, but it's a surefire way to HELP them and give them all the support they need. AAP teachers get support from not only reading and math specialists, but also the AART. It seems like getting a trainee to teach an LLIV class is the perfect solution.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

I don't believe this.

I believe it. FCPS sucks shit and AAP is complete bullshit. The only real way to gain a good education in Vaginia is private school.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!

I'd correct that statement to read "surefire way to get untrained teachers to finish one year". Untrained does not equal good.

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Anonymous wrote:Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

But don't worry AAP parents, your kids would NEVER get one of these people. We'll even transfer over an experienced teacher from a Gen Ed class and give THEM a crappy long-term sub than make your special snowflakes suffer!!

(true story)

I believe it!!

Not true. My child’s 5th grade AAP teacher is a “teacher in training”.

No....this is a troll.

I assure you I am not a troll. It clearly states on our school’s website that the AAP teacher is a “teacher in training” and at open house the AART made a comment about sending extra time in the class. Now I know why.

It's not at all a surprise that they would give the teacher trainee the most well behaved, easy to teach kids in this school. More schools should do this instead of sticking the poor trainees with classrooms they are unable to manage! I don't know why more schools didn't do this!

My student teaching training was in a challenging school on purpose. They placed all of us in those schools because most of us were offered jobs in those types of schools. Those are the ones with the vacancies (this was around 2001). If I had an easy student teaching gig, I wouldn’t probably quit my first job at a challenging school because I wasn’t prepared. As long as the district keeps those new teachers at easy schools, it could work out.

Yes, this is what I'm saying - if they put the trainees in an AAP classroom where (a) the curriculum is already established and there is TONS of instructional support and (b) the students are generally better behaved and eager to learn, none of them would quit mid-year like the two residents at our school last year did. They couldn't handle the disruptive kids, but those kids for the most part don't exist (or don't exist in great volume) in AAP or LLIV classrooms. It's really the perfect solution for both teachers and students (again, the curriculum is WELL established, they're not like Gen Ed teachers who are making things up as they go).

GENIUS - why aren't they doing this???? Someone from Gatehouse please read this -- surefire way to get good teachers to stay!!