How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

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Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

I’m actually ok with my pay. We are just expected to do too much and we don’t have enough time to do it all.

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

+1000 my school added administrators but we are still missing teachers - it’s crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

I’m actually ok with my pay. We are just expected to do too much and we don’t have enough time to do it all.

They want us to be social workers and therapists these days; an academic education is a second or third priority. I spent an hour working on a professional development module last week which coached me in an animated scenario - I, the teacher, was trying to coax a student to tell me about her problems. It took me a good ten to twenty minutes of choosing the correct “gentle prodding and reaffirmation” options to find out she was upset because two of her friends who were mad at each other. Jesus. This is so not my job. If a kid is upset, or if it’s an issue outside my expertise, I send them to the counselor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

I’m actually ok with my pay. We are just expected to do too much and we don’t have enough time to do it all.

I am not. I literally have 10 more students than most teachers at my school and our salaries are the same with same work expectations. I absolutely should be paid more to have a larger class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

I’m actually ok with my pay. We are just expected to do too much and we don’t have enough time to do it all.

They want us to be social workers and therapists these days; an academic education is a second or third priority. I spent an hour working on a professional development module last week which coached me in an animated scenario - I, the teacher, was trying to coax a student to tell me about her problems. It took me a good ten to twenty minutes of choosing the correct “gentle prodding and reaffirmation” options to find out she was upset because two of her friends who were mad at each other. Jesus. This is so not my job. If a kid is upset, or if it’s an issue outside my expertise, I send them to the counselor.

Yep. Kogito modules. Totally agree. What an epic waste of time and money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Axios:

Financial incentives are growing: Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. At least 58 have taken the offer so far, according to records obtained by Axios.

Dallas Independent School District set aside $51 million for salary increases and $52 million for retention bonuses for 2022-2023. The district's starting pay for newly hired teachers is now $60,000; the minimum wage for staff is $15. That kicked off a recruiting arms race among school districts in North Texas, which has a population boom.

I’m considering retiring at the end of this school year. That $50k might convince me to stay, depending on the details.

LORD KNOWS fcps suffers from admin bloat and could find the money to pay actual teachers more.

I’m actually ok with my pay. We are just expected to do too much and we don’t have enough time to do it all.

They want us to be social workers and therapists these days; an academic education is a second or third priority. I spent an hour working on a professional development module last week which coached me in an animated scenario - I, the teacher, was trying to coax a student to tell me about her problems. It took me a good ten to twenty minutes of choosing the correct “gentle prodding and reaffirmation” options to find out she was upset because two of her friends who were mad at each other. Jesus. This is so not my job. If a kid is upset, or if it’s an issue outside my expertise, I send them to the counselor.

Yep. Kogito modules. Totally agree. What an epic waste of time and money.

Kognito is probably THE most tedious training in my list each year.