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There are a lot of kids that get pulled that i don't miss at
all. I lose 2 types of students, really high achieving ones
that go on to public school, because they have a unique skill
or the bad kids that are so delinquent their parents finally
pull them because they think they can do a better job teaching
them then we can. I dont miss those second group of kids at
all. Really my classrooms are pushing 30 kids, losing a
handful of them and getting my classroom size down to 25 would
do wonders for my class, and my students. No one in
administration or central office misses kids either.
What is a threat to the public school classroom is the growing
drive towards virtual school. When that happens and it becomes
a free alternative public school option, thats when were going
to have problems.

My classroom is just getting bigger and so are our schools.
Actually we only need kids in school one day a year to get
their daily attendance allocation. Im just not seeing students
leaving any major city districts, they are definitely growing.

I also agree parents dont have the resources to home school,
both of them typically work, and while "mom" can handle
elementary school, and some of middle school once you get to
8th grade science and math, "mom" is usually lost.

To clarify we didnt adopt common core standards however because
of the market and availability of resources we actually do use
and employ a significant number of CC materials.

I dont believe Texas students are over tested, what they are is
"USELESSLY" over tested. It would be one thing if those
benchmarks had utility and directed instruction or other goals,
but often i believe they are done out of tradition and job
security for a small group of admins.

The TEKS is the worse curriculum guide in the country, except
for everyone elses. No ones going to be happy, but the previous
poster probably wants "intelligent design" included in the
science curriculum. Never going to make everyone happy, stopped
trying.

Ive written about this many times before the previous poster
wants to go back to running her classroom with the door closed
like her own little fiefdom. Never going to happen, the public
screamed accountability, to many athletes graduating who
couldnt read, too many teachers pets who didnt know anything,
except how to be nice, and too many teachers who couldnt keep
their hands off the student body. Even if the closed door
freedom classroom were doable and parents did want it still
would never happen, there are too many admins who would lose
their jobs,just way too much money at stake.

On 9/01/14, muinteoir wrote:
> On 8/31/14, wake up call wrote:
>> Please--PsyGuy does not speak for teachers.
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>
>
> Actually when PsyGuy is not deliberately being provocative or
> just a dipstick, what he says is usually spot-on.
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>>I am a teacher
>> and I certainly will miss your child if you remove them to
>> home school.
>
> I am a teacher too. I certainly miss students when they
> withdraw from my class, but a student here or there doesn't
> make much difference to the overall functioning of schools.
> The exception being the very small rural schools where one
> student can significantly impact the ADA.
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>
>
>>If twenty people share your views I will be out
>> of a job. Last year, we saw many families pull their
> students
>> out mid year to home school.
>
> We sure aren't seeing that around here. I spent 6 years in a
> very large district. In that time we opened up one 5A high
> school, two middle schools, and four elementary schools.
> Plans are being developed for even more. Enrollment rose at
> most schools.
> The largest and fastest-growing district in our area is
> building at the rate of one classroom a day.
>
> I find it hard to believe that many students are leaving your
> schools for home schooling.
>
> 1)Most families are not prepared to home school; both parents
> work, don't have the resources, etc.
>
> 2)Schools are funded by the average daily attendance. A
> large exodus would have your administrators and school board
> doing whatever they had to stop the flow.
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>
>>Maybe the public schools could
>> get out of Common Core,
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> Public schools in Texas do not use the Common Core. The state
> did not adopt those standards. Some private schools do use
> them.
>
>
>>which 6 out of 10 people on the street
>> are opposed to, and get out of the business of using kids
> for
>> guinea pigs for every new fad that comes along. Maybe
>> teachers can stop acting like pushers for the crap that is
>> being pushed on the public. Yes, people are fed up. And it
>> isn't just a few. PsyGuy is hung up on the tea party which
>> he thinks is the villian in his imaginary world. Liberals,
>> Dems, Repubs, tea party and libertarians are all fed up
> with
>> over testing and selling kids out for profit. Wake up
>> teachers. The STAAR testing and the curriculum is just used
>> to get you on the same page so you can be replaced easily.
>> Jump into the resistence movement.
>>
>>
>
> I agree that Texas students are over-tested; although in my
> experience, it's the district and their benchmark testing
> rather than the STAAR testing that creates the situation.
>
> I also have some problems with some of the TEKS. Not all. I
> don't think it is possible to create a set of standards that
> 100% approved by everyone.
>
> What do you propose? No standards at all? No accountability
> at all?
> We had that for years, and children were being "left behind"
> all over the place. Kids of color, kids from disadvantaged
> families, kids with learning differences: many, maybe most.
> of these children did not get a quality education. For poor
> kids and kids that are ethnic minorities, this is still true
> in many places.
>
> What would you see in place of all that you are resisting?

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