{"id":36704,"date":"2015-08-23T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36704"},"modified":"2015-08-23T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:39:29","slug":"gateway-charter-assigns-students-to-room-338-which-is-a-closet-inside-room-339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/gateway-charter-assigns-students-to-room-338-which-is-a-closet-inside-room-339\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Charter Assigns Students To Room 338, Which Is A Closet Inside Room 339"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Jeff Kuntz Editor of the Gateway Sun<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Yesterday was orientation for Gateway Charter\u2019s middle school, which shares its building with the high school.\u00a0So we took my daughter who\u2019s entering the sixth grade to check out the school and meet her teachers.<\/p>\n

It got off to a rough start as we got her schedule and saw she didn\u2019t get any of the electives she asked for.<\/p>\n

Them\u2019s the breaks, kid.<\/p>\n

Meeting the teachers was a mixed bag.<\/p>\n

One teacher described how he had retired and moved here from a few thousand miles away, and then made it sound as they\u2019d found him off the streets and asked if he wanted to teach a new subject and he said \u201cokay, I guess, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see if he lasts the whole year.<\/p>\n

Another teacher thought it was open mic night at the comedy club. I get that they were trying to be friendly, so we\u2019ll give an \u2018A for effort\u2019.<\/p>\n

Then there was the art teacher, poor guy. He\u2019s what they call a \u201ctraveling teacher\u201d meaning he doesn\u2019t have his own classroom but rather they send him and his students to whatever room they happen to have available for that period, and naturally he doesn\u2019t want to make a mess anywhere.<\/p>\n

So that means no painting this year. In art class.<\/p>\n

The math teacher seemed sensible and I was reassured because she sounded competent, although she explained how full marks would always be given on homework as long as you attempted to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

Full marks for trying on homework, even if you get the answer wrong. In math class.<\/p>\n

One of my daughter\u2019s classes is scheduled for Room 338. Only problem being that \u201cRoom 338\u201d is a actually closet inside of Room 339. Fortunately,\u00a0the teacher in Room 339 explained that the class obviously\u00a0would not be taught in Room 338, because that\u2019s not really a classroom \u2013 but she had no idea where that class would be taught. So my daughter will have to attempt to find where that class is being taught on Monday. I wish her luck.<\/p>\n

That was the most interesting experience of the open house.<\/p>\n

A close second was when they assigned my daughter to a classroom on the second floor when she\u2019s supposed to be in the room directly above, on the third floor. Another\u00a0problem was that they got the teacher\u2019s name wrong for that class, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cComputers,\u201d explained the teacher on the second floor, \u201cthey always mess stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funny. The computers that my high school had over 20 years ago were nowhere near as good as the computers they have today, yet my school got my schedule right. Every single time.<\/p>\n

We had over 2,000 students, so it wasn\u2019t like I went to some school in the middle of nowhere with a hundred kids.<\/p>\n

And I can\u2019t recall a single case of someone having a class scheduled inside of a closet.<\/p>\n

The reality is that when we moved to Fort Myers we signed them up to Lee County Schools and the choices we were offered were unsuitable for various reasons, and it seemed like a blessing when we found Gateway Charter.<\/p>\n

I also know people who have pulled their kids out of Gateway Charter and enrolled them in Lee County, only to reverse their decision when they see what schools their kids get assigned to.\u00a0Gateway Charter is the best of bad options.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got a football team with no football field, and now this year they\u2019ve added a theater program inside of a school with no auditorium.<\/p>\n

At a time when the public school board is discussing building a school for $50,000,000 in Bonita Springs, I can\u2019t help but look back on the fact Charter Schools USA bought the building that houses the high school and middle school on Gateway Boulevard for about $1,800,000.<\/p>\n

Hopefully when Lee County Schools builds a shiny new $50,000,000 school in the East Zone we get here it in Gateway. The school board owns land on Griffin Drive.<\/p>\n

For now, we\u2019ll make the best of it for another year at Gateway Charter.<\/p>\n

Go Griffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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