Re: Holy crap Florida's school system sucks
OCPS's Response
The program titled ReTeaching is in fact not remedial. Perhaps their marketing people should go to the class to learn what remedial means.
The teacher was the one who was tasked with responding to us. Her superiors passed the buck.
She tried to tell us it wasn't remedial and that it would enrich their scores on the test. She also said that if my daughter was unable to attend we had to let them know so that they could replace her with another student because they were required to have a certain number of students in the class.
So it was exactly as I thought it was. A quota system handed down by superiors to teachers regardless of teaching level to keep the show of teaching while really only trying to make sure all of their forms are filled out correctly so they get their bonuses and annual raises, etc.
This is what our education system in Orange County has come to.
Private School
I have been told by teachers (real ones not the ones that are occupying a good chunk of the classrooms these days), that Private School for PreK and K is great, 1-5 isn't necessary, 6-8 is great and then high school isn't necessary. The reasoning is that PreK and K get them their core reading, language and math skills that gets them placed in the advanced classes in 1-5. In 1-5, even in public school, they are getting the best teachers to teach the advanced classes so they are getting as good of an education as in Private Schools.
By Middle School, there is a lot of cross over from the teachers between lower level and advanced so your teachers are hit and miss and you are lining up your grades and class track to be in AP classes in High School and for dual enrollment.
For High School, the students are either self-motivated or not so the structure of where you put them doesn't matter. The kids in the AP program are dealing with teachers who have to go through additional training to teach so the students are getting the level of education commensurate with the class level.
OCPS's Response
The program titled ReTeaching is in fact not remedial. Perhaps their marketing people should go to the class to learn what remedial means.
The teacher was the one who was tasked with responding to us. Her superiors passed the buck.
She tried to tell us it wasn't remedial and that it would enrich their scores on the test. She also said that if my daughter was unable to attend we had to let them know so that they could replace her with another student because they were required to have a certain number of students in the class.
So it was exactly as I thought it was. A quota system handed down by superiors to teachers regardless of teaching level to keep the show of teaching while really only trying to make sure all of their forms are filled out correctly so they get their bonuses and annual raises, etc.
This is what our education system in Orange County has come to.
Private School
I have been told by teachers (real ones not the ones that are occupying a good chunk of the classrooms these days), that Private School for PreK and K is great, 1-5 isn't necessary, 6-8 is great and then high school isn't necessary. The reasoning is that PreK and K get them their core reading, language and math skills that gets them placed in the advanced classes in 1-5. In 1-5, even in public school, they are getting the best teachers to teach the advanced classes so they are getting as good of an education as in Private Schools.
By Middle School, there is a lot of cross over from the teachers between lower level and advanced so your teachers are hit and miss and you are lining up your grades and class track to be in AP classes in High School and for dual enrollment.
For High School, the students are either self-motivated or not so the structure of where you put them doesn't matter. The kids in the AP program are dealing with teachers who have to go through additional training to teach so the students are getting the level of education commensurate with the class level.
