Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

[Anonymous]

Is this happening anywhere else? My DC's ES has has have five teachers resign mid year. Is this normal? What is happening?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this happening anywhere else? My DC's ES has has have five teachers resign mid year. Is this normal? What is happening?!

No, it's not normal. Nothing is normal anymore.

[Anonymous]

No, it’s not normal. But half my department is leaving in June, because frankly the job sucks now. Based on lunch room conversations everyone is planning to start applying in March/April but I assume if the offer comes earlier they’ll quit before the end of the year.

I’m sorry. The whole set up is horrible for staff and students alike right now.

[Anonymous]

It's bad in schools.... yes even in FCPS. All we deal with is behaviors on top of out of control behaviors and FCPS just keeps piling on all the extras. Teachers are done with the disrespect coming at them from every angle. Have you seen the posts on here from entitled parents. WE ARE DONE. WE ARE EXHAUSTED! Kids are out of control and so are the parents and schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s not normal. But half my department is leaving in June, because frankly the job sucks now. Based on lunch room conversations everyone is planning to start applying in March/April but I assume if the offer comes earlier they’ll quit before the end of the year.

I’m sorry. The whole set up is horrible for staff and students alike right now.

+1

At my school more than half of the already understaffed SPED department is leaving in June, plus lots of GenEd and other teachers. Anyone who can retire is doing so with a smile and a sigh of relief. I honestly don't know what will happen, how they will fill the jobs for next year or break the current pattern where behavior is horrible, attention spans of kids are non-existent, and standards are rock bottom. I can't leave but am depressed all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this happening anywhere else? My DC's ES has has have five teachers resign mid year. Is this normal? What is happening?!

No, it's not normal. Nothing is normal anymore.

+1

[Anonymous]

Our school has many people leaving as well in large part due to our awful principal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s not normal. But half my department is leaving in June, because frankly the job sucks now. Based on lunch room conversations everyone is planning to start applying in March/April but I assume if the offer comes earlier they’ll quit before the end of the year.

I’m sorry. The whole set up is horrible for staff and students alike right now.

+1

At my school more than half of the already understaffed SPED department is leaving in June, plus lots of GenEd and other teachers. Anyone who can retire is doing so with a smile and a sigh of relief. I honestly don't know what will happen, how they will fill the jobs for next year or break the current pattern where behavior is horrible, attention spans of kids are non-existent, and standards are rock bottom. I can't leave but am depressed all the time.

I know many SPED teachers leaving. Principals were scrambling to staff SPED last summer. It's not good. Congrats to all who feel victorious on compensatory services.

[Anonymous]

It’s rough. Teachers are at their breaking point. To those of you blaming the school board, you can go fly a kite. This is happening all over the country. It’s not an FCPS thing. Colleagues went to a job fair at UVA last week. There were school districts from Texas there vying for the handful of teacher candidates.

—an overwhelmed principal

[Anonymous]

From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

Agree. Helping student behavior get back to "normal" is paramount and would take more security personnel to walk the halls and follow up on support calls and reported problems, more admin coming to classrooms to observe/help/be present (instead of in meetings), and less time in generic teacher profesional development, more on talking about how to help specific students NOW with known issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

Agree. Helping student behavior get back to "normal" is paramount and would take more security personnel to walk the halls and follow up on support calls and reported problems, more admin coming to classrooms to observe/help/be present (instead of in meetings), and less time in generic teacher profesional development, more on talking about how to help specific students NOW with known issues.

Well said. I don't go to PTA meetings at school, no time, but need to go to talk to principal to at least say this is important. Whoa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's bad in schools.... yes even in FCPS. All we deal with is behaviors on top of out of control behaviors and FCPS just keeps piling on all the extras. Teachers are done with the disrespect coming at them from every angle. Have you seen the posts on here from entitled parents. WE ARE DONE. WE ARE EXHAUSTED! Kids are out of control and so are the parents and schools.

+1
I'm just a sub, but every time I work in the schools, I ask myself why I bother. I can completely understand why teachers are leaving in droves. No support from admin, horrible behaviors among many kids, no time to even use the bathroom, no time to work with struggling students... it's just the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

100%

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing you're at my child's school - it's insane. Out of all the teachers, they have only replaced one so far and that was an internal transfer just leaving another teaching spot open.