10-19-2018, 12:59 PM
@my2cents:
I have many teacher friends and am familiar with the DOE.
The best teachers are not going to those charter schools with less resources.
Those teacers are the ones that have choices. The principals of schools have to fight for them because they are coveted. They go to the bigger schools that actually have a library on campus and have a teachers lounge with lots of space to do work. Work using things like efficient copiers laminating machines etc. The charter schools have sub-par versions that are often faulty. So often when I have visited, I would ask where is your... and invariably the reply is we don't have one or it's broken or we don't have the funding for that.
The best teachers go to the schools where they actually have a whole classroom to themselves and not just a room with 5 foot tall divider in the middle so you can hear everything going on in your neighbor teachers' room. The public schools have far more to offer. The best teachers aren't going those spots with less to offer.
In fact quite the opposite. The teachers that can't get in anywhere else will go to charter school because it's their last resort.
Of course there is always the exception with a good teacher or two at the charter schools but everyone I have talked to complain about not enough funding in the charter schools and they want out and to move schools.
I have many teacher friends and am familiar with the DOE.
The best teachers are not going to those charter schools with less resources.
Those teacers are the ones that have choices. The principals of schools have to fight for them because they are coveted. They go to the bigger schools that actually have a library on campus and have a teachers lounge with lots of space to do work. Work using things like efficient copiers laminating machines etc. The charter schools have sub-par versions that are often faulty. So often when I have visited, I would ask where is your... and invariably the reply is we don't have one or it's broken or we don't have the funding for that.
The best teachers go to the schools where they actually have a whole classroom to themselves and not just a room with 5 foot tall divider in the middle so you can hear everything going on in your neighbor teachers' room. The public schools have far more to offer. The best teachers aren't going those spots with less to offer.
In fact quite the opposite. The teachers that can't get in anywhere else will go to charter school because it's their last resort.
Of course there is always the exception with a good teacher or two at the charter schools but everyone I have talked to complain about not enough funding in the charter schools and they want out and to move schools.