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On 6/08/13, what you post doesn't quite add up wrote:

> A mediocre teacher who led kids to national level competitions?

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> Perhaps your judgments aren't as accurate as you like to think

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> You may be right. However, the regional competition is a joke.
Only low-performing charter schools participate when we have
hundreds of very good schools in this large city. It may be the
high cost of participation because public schools, like ours, are
not aware of this science bowl. The students selected pretty much
teach themselves since during science club all they do is group
themselves around a binder while the teacher is at her desk at
the computer. This year she was in maternity leave throughout
most of the year so a students were coached by a back up teacher.
Students did even better when she was not around coaching them.
This is why I don't give her much credit.

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> On 6/08/13, anon wrote:

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>> I would like to get an administrator's perspective about

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>> our situation at work. We have two teachers at our school

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>> who are causing a lot of trouble but our principal won't

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>> get rid of them. They both gossip tremendously, complain

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>> about everything, and are causing a lot of division in our

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>> teams. They are also mediocre classroom teachers without

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>> classroom management and inability to collaborate with our

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>> special education department.

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>> The principal won't get rid of them because one teacher led

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>> a team of students to win first place in a regional science

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>> competition taking the students to the nationals. The other

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>> teacher has great connections with theater programs and

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>> puts together decent plays.

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>> Are these accomplishments worth putting up with these two

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>> teachers who cause so much problems? By the way, both are

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>> new teachers and can be fired without reason.

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