Where are they going to find the teachers?

[Anonymous]

looking at potentially six empty homeroom teacher openings at our public school in northern Virginia and the principal’s struggling to fill them. Lawd help us!

[Anonymous]

If your admin has a good reputation you’ll get teachers from other schools in the district. If not, your teachers are probably going to other schools in the district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your admin has a good reputation you’ll get teachers from other schools in the district. If not, your teachers are probably going to other schools in the district.

I wish the admin knew that.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know. It’s a thankless job that nobody wants anymore.

[Anonymous]

It’s reaching crisis level and no one is doing a damn thing about it.

[Anonymous]

I think if admin has a bad reputation and and they are failing to recruit and retain teachers, then they should be reassigned.

[Anonymous]

Unless people give up easier, more profitable, better respected jobs, there won’t be any teachers in the current climate.

I’ve noticed since the pandemic, people who learn I taught for over a decade say, “Thank you for your service.” That never happened before. I realized that they’re right. I gave up some serious career traction because I wanted to help people. I don’t regret it, but I certainly feel like I’ve done my time.

[Anonymous]

The traditional homeroom model is clearly not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if admin has a bad reputation and and they are failing to recruit and retain teachers, then they should be reassigned.

Um. Who exactly is going to be the new admin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if admin has a bad reputation and and they are failing to recruit and retain teachers, then they should be reassigned.

Um. Who exactly is going to be the new admin?

I know half a dozen with admin degrees chomping at the bit, actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if admin has a bad reputation and and they are failing to recruit and retain teachers, then they should be reassigned.

Um. Who exactly is going to be the new admin?

I know half a dozen with admin degrees chomping at the bit, actually.

Absolutely.

I work with a lot of teachers who have admin degrees. It’s a great gig. You can stay in education without the planning, grading, and teaching.

Filling admin openings will just make the teacher vacancy issue worse.

[Anonymous]

This has nothing to do with “lawd”.

[Anonymous]

VA is where teachers who couldn’t get a job in unionized Northeast states go.

-New England native

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. Not once have I met a transfer from New England. They are mostly local or from the south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. Not once have I met a transfer from New England. They are mostly local or from the south.

Pretty much everyone at my APS school either grew up in Arlington or is from PA/NY/CT