Does wikispaces cache their own pages?

[woodsprite]

My daughter's AP Psych teacher told the students the day he left for Christmas break that it was his last day, he was tired of disrespect from students and faculty and the dirty bathrooms. Supposedly he was in teaching for a hobby and was not accepting any benefits. His wife has a good job and he's covered under military benefits. My daughter said yesterday when they went into class "it looked like the houses in Whoville after the Grinch stole Christmas". Bulletin boards and walls empty, all the charts were removed, the board he was using to project on, all the diagrams, notes, etc.

He had all his class notes, sample AP questions, and lesson plans up on his Wikispace website. He had started removing that stuff about a week before the break. The kids noticed (because reading it weekly was part of their assignments), but he told the kids it was because he was 'redoing' it. They had their permanent sub yesterday (fresh out of college as a Social Studies major). He told the kids he'd try to do right by them and prepare them for their AP test, but he was starting from absolute scratch since no AP lesson plan or notes were passed along to him.

I know Google sometimes caches sites (they didn't do it with his apparently), but I didn't know if Wikispaces does or not. Thought I'd go to the experts to find out if you guys know of any place else I could look. I swear, the next teacher that tells my kids to use their website for assignments, I'm grabbing the whole damn site, and I'll do it weekly. This is the 2nd AP teacher of hers that's gone by the wayside this year. Her AP English teacher is riding her sick leave until retirement. She's eligible to retire in 2 months. It'll be interesting to see what happens then. The school district cannot hire for a new teacher until the old one officially leaves, so AP English has had a string of non-AP/non-English major subs. Again, the AP teacher left no lesson plan for someone else to use, and she's taught that class for over 12 years. You *KNOW* she's got them. Same as the AP Psych guy - he's taught the same class for 5 yrs.

Some teachers are great and really care about the kids they teach. Apparently not so with these two. Yup. I've already complained to the school, but have been told there is not a lot they can do. Suggested my daughter get the AP English and AP Psych review books from Borders.