The irony is that we were taught a little geography by the social studies teacher. There's an East continent and a West continent and there are connections between them
I don't think I can find other teachers because these are the only two social studies and science teachers for the 6th grade.
It is a public school, but a highly competitive school. It's a School of the Arts which holds auditions for students and only accepts about 15% of applicants. Ths students do extremely well on standardized tests and the school is held up as a model of excellence in the public system. So, in some ways it's better than a private school since private schools will typically take anyone with the money to pay.
It's ironic that my wife taught for the last 3 yrs in one of the worst public middle schools in Denver. But her school did not have teachers as bad as these at the best school yet the students at her school routinely scored at the lowest end of standardized tests.
Denver Public Schools has a policy whereby, if a poorly performing school does not increase its scores over a few years by a certain percentage, all teachers are fired and the school is privatized. The policy was applied to a school last year.
In Freakenomics, Levitt has a chapter on education. He argues that the two reliable predictors of academic success are age and education of the child's mother when the child was born. This experience seems to confirm his claim. These two teachers have been teaching at this school for years, yet they haven't been able to undermine the schools success. The students are still successful on standardized tests despite their teachers. The converse is probably also true.

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