Mark R
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Los Angeles has embraced the charter school movement, which has resulted in a rapid increase in the amount of charter schools. According to the study, charter schools as a whole in LA experience a higher rate of teacher churn, but the problem is especially pronounced at the high school level.
About 40% of charter school teachers at this level leave between school years. The study recognizes this as a problem but does not really draw any conclusions as to the cause.
I originally saw this story reported on my local Fox affiliate, which is as bad at presenting the news as you would expect. The segment was presented as positive news for the charter school movement, which was never questioned, and only pro-charter school people were interviewed.
Even though the highest churn is with the high schools, FOX decided to interview a middle school principal. OK, maybe they had a reason.
The real problem was how the narrative suddenly changed in FOX’s reporting from teachers leaving to being fired because they do not want to be accountable and how good it is there are no unions so these incompetent teachers can be let go.
Yep, the charter schools are happy so many teachers arefired leaving because it shows how well charter schools work.
Wait…I thought that is what the standardized test scores were supposed to show. Well, I am sure the test scores are great and the fact charter schools will not release this data is because they do not want to embarrass the regular public schools. That has to be it.
Am I the only one who thinks that when 40% of your workforce leaves that is a clear sign of a dysfunctional organization? I do not care if it is government or a business, this seems more like an example of poor leadership and a bad work environment than effectiveness.
Thoughts?
Los Angeles has embraced the charter school movement, which has resulted in a rapid increase in the amount of charter schools. According to the study, charter schools as a whole in LA experience a higher rate of teacher churn, but the problem is especially pronounced at the high school level.
About 40% of charter school teachers at this level leave between school years. The study recognizes this as a problem but does not really draw any conclusions as to the cause.
I originally saw this story reported on my local Fox affiliate, which is as bad at presenting the news as you would expect. The segment was presented as positive news for the charter school movement, which was never questioned, and only pro-charter school people were interviewed.
Even though the highest churn is with the high schools, FOX decided to interview a middle school principal. OK, maybe they had a reason.
The real problem was how the narrative suddenly changed in FOX’s reporting from teachers leaving to being fired because they do not want to be accountable and how good it is there are no unions so these incompetent teachers can be let go.
Yep, the charter schools are happy so many teachers are
Wait…I thought that is what the standardized test scores were supposed to show. Well, I am sure the test scores are great and the fact charter schools will not release this data is because they do not want to embarrass the regular public schools. That has to be it.
Am I the only one who thinks that when 40% of your workforce leaves that is a clear sign of a dysfunctional organization? I do not care if it is government or a business, this seems more like an example of poor leadership and a bad work environment than effectiveness.
Thoughts?
