By Anonymous
Filed Thursday, April 27 at 7:00 AM
by John DeGuire
April 25, 2006 -- The newly established E.H.Lyle Middle and High school has many problems that its managers actively work to keep hidden from the taxpayers and parents of St. Louis. I worked there as a 6th grade teacher to start this school year. By December, I resigned due to the awful working and learning conditions there.
Since it is a charter school, the administration there has no oversight and no clear accountability. The school building is still not complete. When I was there it was not uncommon to have construction workers and materials in the hallways while students were passing through the hallways. To board the buses students must pass through construction areas cluttered with materials and debris.
Violence at the school can be daily occurrence. Violence against teachers has become common with little consequences for the violating students. Students are seldom expelled due to the money received by the state for having students in the building. Office staff has also been violent towards teachers, with the teachers being dismissed and the office staff suffering no consequences. The administration "leads" in secrecy without informing the teaching staff of decisions regarding daily procedures, testing and scheduling, and building safety.
I had never worked in such a disorganized and poorly run school. I have made efforts to encourage someone in a place of authority to investigate this, but with no real affect. The administrators take a lot of effort to keep all negative information out of the eyes of the public.
After teaching in two charter schools, I am convinced that charter schools are not the answer to the educational issues in St. Louis city. E.H. Lyle is the perfect example of why corporations should not be allowed to run our public schools.
1 Comments:
I honestly think that ehla is a very good school my daughter and son has learned alot from there i also think that the students in the school are old enough to know that they are not suppose to touch any of the construction tools or work they have a lot of ground rules,i think most of the kids should go there instead of school areas with all the violence, chaos and conffusion i mean every school is going to have some fights u cant stop that i mean im not saying u cant but there is going to be a time when u cant get to a situation that fast every school is going to have some conflicts u cant just go calling every school out i mean u dont hear bad things happenig or anything about this school on the news every other day or month like u may hear others( i will not call any out)but im just letting who ever wrote that artical know that is a very good school very very good school if it wasnt why is all of those kids attending there..... and every day my children come home they tell me they learned something new i mean there are so--- many kids attending its ridiculous
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