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Post by beckyminor on Aug 14, 2010 8:30:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the perspective, birdnerd. I suppose there are good things behind teachers moving on...burnt out teachers are no fun. (Ask my kids. I become that burnt out teacher about twice a year when we are homeschooling. Lol!)
One thing I also need to remind myself...nothing we do is irreversible. If we send the kids this year and something is just horrendous (which I doubt it will be) we can always pull them out again.
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Post by Bainespal on Aug 14, 2010 13:06:47 GMT -5
Well, my Christian school has had a high turnover rate as well, recently. I don't know how a high teacher turnover rate might effect the quality of education, since I'm not teacher and don't know anything about philosophy of education, etc.
However, I know as a student that it's fairly uncomfortable when people leave the school community abruptly, especially when the circumstances aren't altogether happy. Yet this applies almost as much to the student and family turn over rates as well. If families start pulling their children out of school because teacher are leaving, it will only make the teacher turnover rate higher. It's a bad cycle. There was a pretty unfortunate time at my school a few years ago when a few well-loved teachers left the school. Loss of old teachers always brings change, I think, and that can drive families away. And that does not help the school retain competent staff.
It's not a good thing for a child to experience the departure of his friends, especially in the middle of the school year, with rumor circulating that his friends' families don't like the school any more.
But if the high teacher turnover is due mostly to salaries, I don't think you have much to worry about. I guess this post was meant to encourage you not to be caught up in a spirit of discontent about the school too quickly, though of course that judgement belongs only to you and your husband. If you take this post as a warning against putting your children in a potentially unstable community (but of course I don't know if it's really unstable), then perhaps that's what you should make of it, even though that is, in fact, the opposite of my personal feelings. I don't know what it's like to be a parent, either.
May God bless you in this complicated situation, and direct your path.
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Post by beckyminor on Aug 20, 2010 8:29:45 GMT -5
Just wanted to let you all know, your prayers have been a blessing. God keeps showing up in little (and no so little ways) from a complete stranger buying my husband's lunch to encourage him, to friends being willing to offer us a new washer to replace ours that died. Not that this has gotten easy and smooth, but I feel much more at peace today than I did a few short days ago. Kids are all registered for the school, so we shall see if that works out well. In the meantime, I'm trying to squeeze in writing where-ever I can, since it's easy to unwind when you're in a fictitious universe and you're the one who gets to make the problems for the people in front of you.
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Post by birdnerd on Aug 20, 2010 23:29:08 GMT -5
Yah, for sure!
Good to know things are starting to work out.
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