Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

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Anonymous wrote:I would also make the School Board members teach classes in trailers they do nothing about if they want to get the 50% bump-up in salary next year.

So y’all think the SB are the worst people ever to exist and you want them teaching your kids?

Thanks for confirming that you don’t really care about your kids’ education and that it’s more about punitive acts towards those you dislike.

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I’d also love to see SB members each do a one week stint as subs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d also love to see SB members each do a one week stint as subs.

That, too. Anything to get these people out of their sheltered bubble where they mostly just prance around virtue signaling and getting their pictures taken with each other and other local politicians.

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Anonymous wrote:I would also make the School Board members teach classes in trailers they do nothing about if they want to get the 50% bump-up in salary next year.

So y’all think the SB are the worst people ever to exist and you want them teaching your kids?

Thanks for confirming that you don’t really care about your kids’ education and that it’s more about punitive acts towards those you dislike.

babysitting....education is in a sad state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d also love to see SB members each do a one week stint as subs.

Agree...there are a lot of parents that need to come in to...so they GET it!

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Anonymous wrote:I would also make the School Board members teach classes in trailers they do nothing about if they want to get the 50% bump-up in salary next year.

So y’all think the SB are the worst people ever to exist and you want them teaching your kids?

Thanks for confirming that you don’t really care about your kids’ education and that it’s more about punitive acts towards those you dislike.

babysitting....education is in a sad state.

Babysitting has been going on for many years. It will continue and increase as fewer people go into teaching. That combined with people quitting means we are going to need a lot more babysitters.

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Anonymous wrote:I am truly stumped as to why Michelle Reid has not sent a public communication about the county’s 1000+ vacancies only weeks before the school year begins. We need to leverage all community resources and personnel available at this time! Most are clueless about this right now.

Is it really 1000???

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Anonymous wrote:I am truly stumped as to why Michelle Reid has not sent a public communication about the county’s 1000+ vacancies only weeks before the school year begins. We need to leverage all community resources and personnel available at this time! Most are clueless about this right now.

Is it really 1000???

Does anyone actually know the number of TRUE vacancies?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d also love to see SB members each do a one week stint as subs.

That, too. Anything to get these people out of their sheltered bubble where they mostly just prance around virtue signaling and getting their pictures taken with each other and other local politicians.

Maybe Dr. Reid and her fabulous assistant superintendents would like to sub for a week.....it would be eye opening and good for the suits!

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Anonymous wrote:I’d also love to see SB members each do a one week stint as subs.

That, too. Anything to get these people out of their sheltered bubble where they mostly just prance around virtue signaling and getting their pictures taken with each other and other local politicians.

Maybe Dr. Reid and her fabulous assistant superintendents would like to sub for a week.....it would be eye opening and good for the suits!

+1,000,000
But with ZERO assistance from any aides or other teachers. That would be so rewarding, I would pay to see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am truly stumped as to why Michelle Reid has not sent a public communication about the county’s 1000+ vacancies only weeks before the school year begins. We need to leverage all community resources and personnel available at this time! Most are clueless about this right now.

Is it really 1000???

No. It's not.

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This is what happens when you have classrooms with no accountability and consequences. Teachers have to put up with bad behavior and are overwhelmed.

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Why would anyone want to be a teacher when your administrators and school board will not allow disruptive / violent kids to get any effective consequences?

Yep. Learned my lesson the hard way. I used to think teaching would be the ideal career for me. Now it’s not much more than punishment, every single day.

You need to leave and apply to a well run school system with a strong superintendent and leadership team who have supports for kids who exhibit extreme behaviors but also aren't afraid to give consequences for violent behavior. What's being described on this thread would be a nightmare for kids and teachers/staff.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m thinking behavior management is the next big overhaul in education. I’m seeing a lot of posts in my feed about evidence showing restorative practices not changing student behavior and kids just figure out the system. It’s common sense- no consequences=no change in behavior.

Restorative justice requires the people involved to have a mature sense of right and wrong, to have already absorbed society’s values. Kids are kids precisely because they HAVEN”T absorbed those yet. They need guidelines, limits and consequences to build the understanding of our values before restorative justice practices can be used. I think it works well for adults, but kids are still learning to control their impulses to the point they need clear consequences. That is why they are kids.

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I graduated from college long, long ago. I still remember a professor telling us that we would not have discipline problems if we had good lesson plans!

Wasn't true then and isn't true now. But, all the tricks that teachers used to use to enforce order are now "no-no's." Like taking the class out of the room when one kid is out of control. Used to be we moved the disruptive kid.

And, this IEP thing is out of hand. Everyone wants one for their kid these days--when some of them just need structure and discipline--and mostly parents with common sense. And, the 'twice exceptional" parents are the worst.

Please don't generalize all IEP kids as discipline problems. My two IEP kids have reading, writing and math goals. They have Dyslexia. They IEP process for one took almost two years, COvid involved and the other about a year because we keep getting the they'll catch up run around in first grade, so it took into second grade to get. One does have ADHD but is never been a discipline problem, I've been told by teachers. Mostly they get inattentive and sometimes need check-ins or reminders. Also they are not get at self advocating if they miss something. THey have been working hard in these areas with their teachers. I'm a parent that wants to know if my child is causing issues and I will work with you to problem solve.

Back in the day, most of the kids with IEP had learning issues--the type of thing you say your kids have. That was the intention of an IEP. Today, it seems like a lot of kids have them for behavioral issues.

Yes. Teachers are not talking about the LD/ADHD kiddos. It's the out of control behaviors-where a child needs a 1:1 all day to make it through and parents want to place blame on the school.

IEPS tend to fall in three categories in a Gen Ed classroom.

LD but well behaved and eager to learn
Behavior
Or LD and Behavior

In my school we tend to see most of the behaviors from ESOL kids who lack a lot of structure at home.

Interesting....we see the kids with a lack of structure at home for sure.... but it's not ESOL families. Everyone likes to say its technology. Honestly it's more a lack of kids not having boundaries at home... a lack of hearing the word no or stop or not right now. You don't have to be strict to teach your kids boundaries and an understanding that there are other people/kids in the world. Coaches and teachers can't cater to one or two kids when they have 15-30....parents need to realize this as well. Little Johnny is not the only kid at school. Homeschool is always an option if thats what you need.

I’m an ESOL teacher and my students are much better behaved then their non-ESOL classmates. But the poor behavior all makes sense when you talk to parents. Many are young and have no interest in parenting. They want to be their kid’s friend. They like dressing them up and watching TikTok with them. It’s sad because the parent never really grew up themselves.

The Level 1 and 2 students are not an issue. It tends to be Level 3 and 4. They tend to be the hispanic kids and the parents don’t know how to support/discipline because they are working.

Please vote for politicians that will do something about limiting migration of mass numbers of people with little to no skills. My MIL worked as a high school teacher in a small city up north and would have "students" in her class that appeared to be in their mid 20s that seemed to have never seen the inside of a school previously, were completely illiterate, and did not speak a single word of english. She retired early. Why must our tax dollars be spent this way?

WHy don't you worry about the citizens who have little or no skills and still causing problems? Are you in support of that? Because there are plenty? If you are not, you're just a racist. Yes, a racist.

Do you realize how much money is being spent on migrants that could be spent on citizens?

This. I think parents would be shocked to learn many of our schools discipline issues are not even US citizens. The amount of money/energy we spend on non citizens is ridiculous. Citizens should 100 percent be the priority. Kids who are behaviors and not citizens should be expelled.

The most horrendous behavior I’ve had over the years (in ES), chair throwers, desk flippers, fighting, etc have all come from white middle-class families that have no structure or discipline at home.

Most of these parents are crazy white liberals. They will be like, "Now little Timmy, you shouldn't do that. It's not nice." Little Timmy need a good ol whoopin, that's what he need. You do that kinda stuff in school and heres the 'ol belt. Now that's what I'm talkin about. Theres gotta be consequences to actions.

Yes, it's like they don't want to hurt the kid's feelings or something. Somewhere along the way, the message went out that you will permanently damage your kid if you make your kid cry.

I think the issue is parents can enforce limits and consequences without getting angry, but people don’t understand the nuance so it turned into permissive parenting rather than hold the line without screaming parenting. Kids needs limits. If a kid cries because they don’t like the limit, you can comfort your kid but DON”T GIVE IN. Too many people give in. Also, we have lost the art of teaching kids social skills in favor of their impulses. You can teach your kid the rules in a way that draws attention to the fact that other people exist and have needs, but parents aren’t doing that. They are just giving in.

The abusive parenting is bad (making your kid cry and yelling/hitting is not okay). Telling your kid you are upset because you are having a hard time sitting in this restaurant and so we are leaving because you are crying and people here are paying to eat their food without you screaming is fine. Take them out and bring them back when they are ready. There is a limit (no crying) and there is a consequence (leaving and eating cold food). What isn’t okay (and used to be is saying “you’d better be quiet or I am going to spank you.” OR what is now okay is (Oh sweetie, this is hard, here is your ipad” Neither are doing a kid justice
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So true.