Re: Math Investigations

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That's the problem with teaching in a "right to work state."
Certain counties, especially in Northern VA, find all kinds of ways
to manipulate the system to their advantage and make life a
living "heck" for the teachers. Meanwhile certain administrators
and the companies are making the big bucks. Does PWC have an
organization? I am glad that I don't teach in Northern VA!

On 10/18/09, Not only Loudoun .......... wrote:
> Sadly, it is not only Loudoun. It is PWC too. And teachers are
> being threatened with their jobs if they stray from MI. And if
> they don't individually meet the AYP/NCLB goals, regardless of
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> It's a scary time to be a teacher in PWC.
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> On 9/27/09, Only in Loudoun! wrote:
>> On 9/26/09, Somewhere over the rainbow wrote:
>>> The county adopted Math Investigations and has been phasing
>>> it into the different grades over the last few years. My
>>> school did not make AYP because of our math scores. The
>>> principal charted our math SOL scores for the last couple
>>> of years and the scores have been steadily going down.
>>> Nearby schools with similar demographics have had their
>>> scores go up each year. Why? Our principal was chastised
>>> when a teacher deviated from MI to help her students
>>> understand a math concept so our principal insisted on us
>>> being true to MI. Teachers at the other schools stepped
>>> outside of MI to help their students understand the
>>> concepts.
 

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