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Gee. Man, $80K isn't a ton of money these days. Inflation takes its toll.

My oldest's current teacher is fantastic. Worth every penny. She wrote up an IPP for my daughter and even went to a teaching gifted children conference a few months back. That's farking dedication. I do know that some parents don't like my younger daughter's teacher. They say she is too strict. I think it's farking great. She is a bit of a hardass. But man, my youngest is the most manipulative kid I've ever met. She needs the focus.

Are there truly bad teachers? I think of my time in the CBE, and I think every single teacher I had knew their material. I think they taught as best they could given the knowledge known at the time about various teaching methods (that is, very little). Did I have "a-hole" teachers? #### if I my 15 year old pimple ass could've made a proper judgement call on that.

I think there is such a thing as a poor teacher-student fit. It is your responsibility as a parent to communicate with your stinky kid and find out if there is a conflict and act promptly. Yeah, there's poorly run schools, so your action might be as drastic as moving schools.

In an organization as large as the CBE, the bell curve happens. It must happen. Even Google, with all their ridiculous employee testing and screening, couldn't flatten the curve (I think the employees on the left side of the curve now all work on Google Mail).