subs and laptops

[Anonymous]

Teacher went down with a long-term medical issue. School is sending random teachers and subs to cover, no long-term sub.

Covering teacher/sub shows a video and then lets the kids free play games or whatever they want on their Chromeboooks.

[Anonymous]

Grade?

[Anonymous]

Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

[Anonymous]

Parents are free to sign up to sub.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

It wasn't two years. It was one school year and a few months. All teachers except those in the virtual academy are back in school.

Most of the teachers never fully figured out the technology.

This has nothing to do with the teacher shortage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher went down with a long-term medical issue. School is sending random teachers and subs to cover, no long-term sub.

Covering teacher/sub shows a video and then lets the kids free play games or whatever they want on their Chromeboooks.

This is normal. They wouldn't replace a teacher out on medical leave and they'd use a sub. We had many subs over 6 months. It was terrible. The returning teacher was even worse than some of the subs.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't be that hard for the sub to tell the kids to log on to one of the many school endorsed educational websites for reading/math/etc to do activities or read or do their homework. One of the many admins hanging out downtown could make a generic sub plan.

[Anonymous]

For 8th grade DC did not have a science teacher. Teacher went on leave before school started and it was a constant rotation of subs for the entire school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

It wasn't two years. It was one school year and a few months. All teachers except those in the virtual academy are back in school.

Most of the teachers never fully figured out the technology.

This has nothing to do with the teacher shortage.

Not "all" teachers. PP's point was, most of them quit. Most of the teachers did figure out the technology. You sound completely clueless, so please don't act like you know why there is a massive teacher shortage. Teachers want out. They'll get out too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

It wasn't two years. It was one school year and a few months. All teachers except those in the virtual academy are back in school.

Most of the teachers never fully figured out the technology.

This has nothing to do with the teacher shortage.

Ok, keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

It wasn't two years. It was one school year and a few months. All teachers except those in the virtual academy are back in school.

Most of the teachers never fully figured out the technology.

This has nothing to do with the teacher shortage.

I know schools weren’t shut down other than the two weeks, but I’ve seen it posted here over and over. The reaction of some extreme community members absolutely is part of the reason people have left teaching. You can’t devalue trained professionals and then expect them to continue working.

[Anonymous]

A lot of veteran teachers overuse the laptops as well. It's not a sub thing.

Though some of the programs they are playing on do have value--they are practicing the content and the program provides the teacher with assessments to know how the kids are doing on certain skills.

But despite the benefits, I also think it's too much time on the computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher went down with a long-term medical issue. School is sending random teachers and subs to cover, no long-term sub.

Covering teacher/sub shows a video and then lets the kids free play games or whatever they want on their Chromeboooks.

This is normal. They wouldn't replace a teacher out on medical leave and they'd use a sub. We had many subs over 6 months. It was terrible. The returning teacher was even worse than some of the subs.

The returning teacher had a medical issue serious enough to miss 6 months of work. It’s likely that they were not ready to return FT when they came back, but MCPS doesn’t allow teachers on long-term medical leave to return PT. She probably returned with unresolved symptoms or with side effects from treatments and walked into a classroom that had a rolling cast of subs for half the year. Pretty much any teacher would struggle with that. Add on student behavioral issues and academic apathy rising in the spring, and you can see how the teacher was likely set up to fail by a sick leave policy that wouldn’t be in place in another profession or most school systems.

[Anonymous]

Normal unfortunately. Happened to DC most of 8th grade with a sub.