I was a teacher trainer for several years in one of Phoenix's largest school districts. After teaching for eight years, I had assumed that all teachers were like me -- hard-working, striving to excel, etc. Boy, was I wrong. I was in more nightmare classrooms than I could believe. Yes, many teachers are excellent, but no kid deserves to be in a classroom with an incompetent teacher for nine months, and it's so difficult to get rid of poor teachers that principals seldom try. The only time I saw that happen was with a male teacher who was one year from retirement. Now, wasn't that a courageous principal. /sarcasm off
I now homeschool my own kids, and we are loving it.
Dear ChocChipCookie,
The dirty little secret is that in many public school systems, large numbers of teachers with school-aged children send their children to private schools.
A ringing endorsement of these school systems.
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Dear ChocChipCookie,
Here are a couple of quotes from one article I found while googling on that subject - public school teachers who send their kids to private schools:
"A study done by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that nationwide, public-school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to send their children to a private school."
"For example, in Philadelphia, 44 percent, and in Cincinnati, 41 percent of public-school teachers sent their kids to private schools."
Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
From, http://ezinearticles.com/?Public-school-Teachers-Know-Best-----They-Send-Their-Kids-To-Private-Schools&id=45797
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