I totally agree. In fact.... I have heard "What a great teacher..." and was excited to get that particular one when in turn, our experience was totally different. Not awful, but I have since learned that i form my own opinions of what makes a good school, a good teacher etc. as every child's needs are different and what works for one will not work for another etc. Our local PS is "excellent" according to state (which doesn't take much to make exclellent" but certainly not excellent by my standards. I went to tour it and left there and called my DH and said "I wouldn't send my dog there! NO WAY is that an option!" It was SAD!
As for the Texas thing..... sadly, we heard that news way over here across the country because most of our textbooks come from texas. So what affects texas, affects MANY MANY students! SAD SAD SAD!
