Teacher retention rate hits 90% benchmark

[Anonymous]

No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Weird turn there. Turning your “positive” post into a manifesto of sorts.

[Anonymous]

I think it probably has very little to do with Reid, and most likely due to all the feral illiterate screen addicted covid kids finally getting back on track so the teachers can actually teach and enjoy their jobs without dealing with constant weird crap like kids destroying bathrooms or having screen withdrawal meltdowns, with constant contact from flipping out parents who are as frustrafed or more frustrated than the teachers.

Just my 2 cents.

[Anonymous]

OP, I have to ask:

- are you Karl Frisch?

[Anonymous]

I guess….still a lot of SPED vacancies and long term subs in buildings and teacher trainees that are here to stay because FCPS will keep them over kicking them out because they aren’t getting license.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t Reid come out and say the foreign teacher program had problems because a lot of the candidates misrepresented their English abilities? They have to be very careful what countries they hire from and even then, there are still going to be people who aren’t completely fluent in English even though they say they are.

[Anonymous]

From the meeting, it sounded like there were two incidents of foreign teachers not having the necessary English fluency. But they didn’t explain those incidents so they were talking amongst themselves. Overall seems like the program has been successful and they are going to expand it,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it probably has very little to do with Reid, and most likely due to all the feral illiterate screen addicted covid kids finally getting back on track so the teachers can actually teach and enjoy their jobs without dealing with constant weird crap like kids destroying bathrooms or having screen withdrawal meltdowns, with constant contact from flipping out parents who are as frustrafed or more frustrated than the teachers.

Just my 2 cents.

I suspect this has a lot to do with it. Behavior was atrocious that first year back and kids have now remembered the rules of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have to ask:

- are you Karl Frisch?

[Anonymous]

Very like WTOP to carry water for FCPS.

"Look everybody, ignore all the scandals and the way we're riling the entire community up by pretending to listen to them over major changes! Just check out this good news!"

[Anonymous]

I work in SPED and I too am curious about foreign teacher retention as that is where many of the teachers are placed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in SPED and I too am curious about foreign teacher retention as that is where many of the teachers are placed.

Is it possible to know in which schools and academic areas the "ambassador teachers" are placed? A website link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the meeting, it sounded like there were two incidents of foreign teachers not having the necessary English fluency. But they didn’t explain those incidents so they were talking amongst themselves. Overall seems like the program has been successful and they are going to expand it,

I attended one of Reid's community conversations in the fall.

Half the parents there were from one of the elementary schools that had one of those teachers.

I think the problems went beyond language issues. My impression was that the teacher had zero teaching experience in their own country, and behaved in ways that were completely unacceptable in and incompatible with US school culture. I didn't take notes on that topic, but I seem to recall some discussion about issues with the background checks of the foreign teachers came up in the discussion. The parents did not share specifics, but every single one of them was horrified by the experience.

The parents there were very reasonable people, but their concerns really alarmed me.

The meeting was over a month into the school year and the teacher had just been removed. The fact FCPS left the teacher in the classroom for at least a month with no mentorship or real oversight was also alarming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Reid come out and say the foreign teacher program had problems because a lot of the candidates misrepresented their English abilities? They have to be very careful what countries they hire from and even then, there are still going to be people who aren’t completely fluent in English even though they say they are.

They should be able to vet for this, especially with only 100-130 foreign teachers. Unless they are eschewing test scores, Zoom interviews, etc and going with a "holistic" approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have to ask:

- are you Karl Frisch?

Since there has not been a refutation, it stands to reason the OP of this thread is in fact, Karl Frisch.