Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From the article

“At Wednesday’s FCPS job fair, the district is not only hiring teachers but also teacher trainees. Applicants for the trainee position do not need a college degree, only at least 30 college credits, which is about one school year of full-time schooling.”

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-public-schools-host-job-fair-amidst-teacher-shortage

This is pretty sad. Imagine coming to FCPS for the great schools and finding out that your teacher is a trainee with a year's worth of college credits. Id be even more pissed after just graduating with my Education degree.

Yup. My rising college sophomore has 30 credits. An education major could literally stop going to college full time and save loads of money.

But half the teachers leave after 5 years, so she’s just be unemployed 24 yo with no degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the article

“At Wednesday’s FCPS job fair, the district is not only hiring teachers but also teacher trainees. Applicants for the trainee position do not need a college degree, only at least 30 college credits, which is about one school year of full-time schooling.”

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-public-schools-host-job-fair-amidst-teacher-shortage

This is pretty sad. Imagine coming to FCPS for the great schools and finding out that your teacher is a trainee with a year's worth of college credits. Id be even more pissed after just graduating with my Education degree.

Yup. My rising college sophomore has 30 credits. An education major could literally stop going to college full time and save loads of money.

But half the teachers leave after 5 years, so she’s just be unemployed 24 yo with no degree.

But potentially 5 years of work experience.

[Anonymous]

Yes a lot of schools are fully staffed except SPED. My school still needs 2 classroom teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the article

“At Wednesday’s FCPS job fair, the district is not only hiring teachers but also teacher trainees. Applicants for the trainee position do not need a college degree, only at least 30 college credits, which is about one school year of full-time schooling.”

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-public-schools-host-job-fair-amidst-teacher-shortage

This is pretty sad. Imagine coming to FCPS for the great schools and finding out that your teacher is a trainee with a year's worth of college credits. Id be even more pissed after just graduating with my Education degree.

Yup. My rising college sophomore has 30 credits. An education major could literally stop going to college full time and save loads of money.

But half the teachers leave after 5 years, so she’s just be unemployed 24 yo with no degree.

But potentially 5 years of work experience.

What does that matter when every job posted requires a bachelors degree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soon they will just hire monitors to babysit the kids while a teacher teaches large numbers of classes online. There won't be enough certified teachers left to cover all of the classes.

Most parents want babysitters....they told teachers to leave they don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article says FCPS is 99 percent staffed. Yeah right….

Were they speaking of Fauquier county....the FCPS list says otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article says FCPS is 99 percent staffed. Yeah right….

Were they speaking of Fauquier county....the FCPS list says otherwise.

The FCPS list doesn't update immediately. Hiring, paperwork, etc. takes awhile. And so does the updating process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the article

“At Wednesday’s FCPS job fair, the district is not only hiring teachers but also teacher trainees. Applicants for the trainee position do not need a college degree, only at least 30 college credits, which is about one school year of full-time schooling.”

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-public-schools-host-job-fair-amidst-teacher-shortage

This is pretty sad. Imagine coming to FCPS for the great schools and finding out that your teacher is a trainee with a year's worth of college credits. Id be even more pissed after just graduating with my Education degree.

Yup. My rising college sophomore has 30 credits. An education major could literally stop going to college full time and save loads of money.

But half the teachers leave after 5 years, so she’s just be unemployed 24 yo with no degree.

But potentially 5 years of work experience.

What does that matter when every job posted requires a bachelors degree?

Part of the teacher trainer programs is the requirement to finish a degree anyway

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes a lot of schools are fully staffed except SPED. My school still needs 2 classroom teachers.

A lot of schools need Gen Ed teachers too. 99 percent in a large district like this is fooling. My school has three openings for Gen ED teachers while my friend’s has one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't there a job fair today? Hope it goes better than the last one.

Yes and they were reporting that the new trainee program requires just 30 credit hours and no degree!!! WTF!

Is this a joke? I’m a teacher in FCPS and haven’t heard such a thing.

Just shoddy reporting. The Teacher Trainee info online clearly says candidates need college degrees .... looks like Fox5 pulled that paragraph from the article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't there a job fair today? Hope it goes better than the last one.

Yes and they were reporting that the new trainee program requires just 30 credit hours and no degree!!! WTF!

Is this a joke? I’m a teacher in FCPS and haven’t heard such a thing.

Just shoddy reporting. The Teacher Trainee info online clearly says candidates need college degrees .... looks like Fox5 pulled that paragraph from the article.

I guess. They said it live at the actual event. So who knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the number of openings, or converted the list into a spreadsheet, https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm?

I threw it in google sheets and ran a countif on the number of "apply" buttons and found 530. So, minimum 530 positions, but like pp said many schools only have 1 vacancy listed for a grade range and may have multiple positions open (in prior years they'd list it multiple times). Probably significantly higher than 530 at the end of the day.

It is probably around 630.

Oh it’s got to be more than just 100 extra. At my school alone, one sped listing is 5 teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I considered becoming a teacher... until I spent some time subbing. I am eternally grateful I subbed first instead of spending thousands of dollars and countless hours acquiring a teaching certificate. Subbing was a huge eye opener. I always had tons of respect for teachers, but I now have both admiration and frankly, sympathy for them. They are in a no-win situation and admin does NOT have their backs. It is a thankless task.

Years ago, I subbed while I was waiting for my license to process. I thought subbing was the most miserable job I ever had. The “work” was easier as a sub but the students were so much more difficult. I prefer being the classroom teacher despite the lack of support, lack of supplies, lack of curriculum…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I considered becoming a teacher... until I spent some time subbing. I am eternally grateful I subbed first instead of spending thousands of dollars and countless hours acquiring a teaching certificate. Subbing was a huge eye opener. I always had tons of respect for teachers, but I now have both admiration and frankly, sympathy for them. They are in a no-win situation and admin does NOT have their backs. It is a thankless task.

Your comment reminds me of a day during my student teaching placement where my mentor teacher was out sick but a substitute was still required to sit in the classroom. So she sat in the back on her phone all day while I taught the classes. The absurdity of that situation reminded me how much teachers must sacrifice on their path to attain licensure and then once they start working. Needless to say, I did not become a teacher.

I think teachers should be given grants, free tuition, and/or reimbursement if they devote 5 years to the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article says FCPS is 99 percent staffed. Yeah right….

Were they speaking of Fauquier county....the FCPS list says otherwise.

The FCPS list doesn't update immediately. Hiring, paperwork, etc. takes awhile. And so does the updating process.

Sure Jan