Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

I love this.

The PSL for our school is has a bad habit of zooming into IEP meetings where everyone else is in the room. He is clearly checked out and not paying attention.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

Right but the solution isn’t to make central office people return. I think most of them are wasted positions but they can be wasted from home vs from an office. The solution is to use their success to support teachers getting to work from home on work days, not force everyone on site all the time.

Yes it is.

In an industry/profession where most of the people have to be in person (i.e. teaching in a classroom), it leaves a bad taste to have the people with the least stressful jobs already getting the extra perk of working from home. It may not be the way to retain those gatehouse people... but maybe there are plenty of people who would take their jobs even if the incumbents quit b/c they couldn't work from home. I'm sure MANY of the classroom teachers would gladly apply for Gatehouse jobs even if they couldn't work from home! They'd have a lot less stress than teaching in a classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

I love this.

The PSL for our school is has a bad habit of zooming into IEP meetings where everyone else is in the room. He is clearly checked out and not paying attention.

What is a PSL?

ES Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

I love this.

The PSL for our school is has a bad habit of zooming into IEP meetings where everyone else is in the room. He is clearly checked out and not paying attention.

What is a PSL?

ES Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

This is only related to teachers leaving the classroom in that FCPS central office may be able to absorb some. Plenty of classroom teachers will be happy to replace those leaving non-classroom based job because they can no longer work from home.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

I love this.

The PSL for our school is has a bad habit of zooming into IEP meetings where everyone else is in the room. He is clearly checked out and not paying attention.

Exactly. He should get to work just like the others.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are leaving because administrators are refusing to discipline children and school systems are refusing to separate out poorly behaving/severely learning disabled children from the general education classroom. This didn't happen when we were children because kids were disciplined and because kids couldn't handle being in a general education classroom were put in separate schools. We need to go back to that model. Sorry, but equity is not working.

While I agree with some of this, most of our SPED kids are not behavior problems. Only a handful are. Many of our behavior problems are non sped students.

Thank you! I have an autistic son, and honestly, he’s the light of my life and not a behavior problem. Obviously, he has issues sitting still and learning like other kids, but he’s in SPED all day anyway. It’s tough to hear people disparage kids with special needs when I spend SO MUCH TIME helping my son be as successful as he can. He already has literally all of society giving him the side eye. Jeez.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

You're right, it had been a while since someone used the "anything teachers complain about is invalid because they get summers off and everyone else doesn't!" argument.

We don't get summers "off." It is not vacation time. We are literally not paid to work in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

You're right, it had been a while since someone used the "anything teachers complain about is invalid because they get summers off and everyone else doesn't!" argument.

We don't get summers "off." It is not vacation time. We are literally not paid to work in the summer.

And there are plenty of opening if your jealous and want the same schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

"Why isn't this gasoline putting out the fire?"
As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

You're right, it had been a while since someone used the "anything teachers complain about is invalid because they get summers off and everyone else doesn't!" argument.

We don't get summers "off." It is not vacation time. We are literally not paid to work in the summer.

And there are plenty of opening if your jealous and want the same schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

You're right, it had been a while since someone used the "anything teachers complain about is invalid because they get summers off and everyone else doesn't!" argument.

We don't get summers "off." It is not vacation time. We are literally not paid to work in the summer.

And there are plenty of opening if your jealous and want the same schedule.

"Why isn't this gasoline putting out the fire?"

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

I love this.

The PSL for our school is has a bad habit of zooming into IEP meetings where everyone else is in the room. He is clearly checked out and not paying attention.

Exactly. He should get to work just like the others.

I'm a parent and I think it's good for people to zoom in for IEP meetings--makes them more manageable, especially for people who work in a region rather than in a school--less travel time means more ability to support the IEP process. The real problem is if someone is checked out. I actually would prefer to have everyone on zoom (including myself!) tbh.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently some of the central office workers were told today that their partial WFH privileges are revoked for next year. FCPS continues to become a worse place to work. It’s like they are making decisions to contribute to vacancies rather than support their current employees.

Why would they need to only partially work in the office? Surely it’s not still due to Covid.

Why does anyone? Quality of life, job satisfaction, etc.

I’m a teacher and never cared one bit if someone who can do their office role from home worked from home. Enough school based staff fussed that everyone has to come back for optics now. Unless they have proof productivity dropped, this is dumb. They could save a lot of money if they stopped leasing willow oaks.

Right. I get that. So, that was my question. Why have they been partially in the office if it could all be done from a remote location? Perhaps it has been optics.

As a teacher, I have absolutely no problem with them working from home except that they specifically said I cannot, on teacher workdays when I do not have in person meetings or trainings. So, some employees can work from home, but others must be on site even when it is unnecessary? They can do virtual trainings from home but I can't be trusted to do so? That is my issue.

And some workers get summers off, spring break and winter breaks and others don't?

Well, teachers knew what they were getting into when they signed up for the job. Am I right?