Hardy MS 7th Grade Science Situation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that quits with no notice mid-term and any school system that hires such a teacher deserves no favors from anybody.

Sit down bonehead

The teacher concerned has entered the chat . . .

In all seriousness, in what other professional occupation would this be considered acceptable?

Any. Only in education is it perceived as unethical to quit at a certain time of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that quits with no notice mid-term and any school system that hires such a teacher deserves no favors from anybody.

Sit down bonehead

The teacher concerned has entered the chat . . .

In all seriousness, in what other professional occupation would this be considered acceptable?

Any. Only in education is it perceived as unethical to quit at a certain time of the year.

That’s BS. There are plenty of jobs where it’s considered a jerk move to quit mid-project (eg, consulting) or mid-season (accountant).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP.
The exact same thing happened in the few weeks before the drama teacher started.
I don't understand why subs in situations like this are not doing any instruction.
Is it one bad sub? There is a curriculum. How dare the guy show up to class as a substitute teacher and then not teach anything at all?

Because a sub has zero idea how to teach. They are babysitting and maybe handing out a reading or related activity. Teacher here and, unless they were a former teacher, there’s no way I would want a sub teaching a lesson.

[Anonymous]

What a mess, OP. So disheartening to hear. DCPS is really dropping the ball at Walls and Hardy this fall. You're going to see more IB Hardy families shoot for BASIS and Latin this lottery season.

[Anonymous]

The science teacher just up and left. No notice to the school to allow them to find a replacement. No e-mail to the parents to give them a head’s up or explain why she was leaving. No apparent consideration given to how severely she was screwing over her students for the year. We understand that DCPS has its issues and that the school administration is a mess, but to take out one’s frustration on the students is really appalling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The science teacher just up and left. No notice to the school to allow them to find a replacement. No e-mail to the parents to give them a head’s up or explain why she was leaving. No apparent consideration given to how severely she was screwing over her students for the year. We understand that DCPS has its issues and that the school administration is a mess, but to take out one’s frustration on the students is really appalling.

Well, if the school weren’t underfunded and class sizes weren’t so large (even pre-budget-cut), then there would be options to leaving a classroom doing nothing. But no one can double up or fill-in with an extra lesson or whatever in the already-stretched situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP.
The exact same thing happened in the few weeks before the drama teacher started.
I don't understand why subs in situations like this are not doing any instruction.
Is it one bad sub? There is a curriculum. How dare the guy show up to class as a substitute teacher and then not teach anything at all?

Because a sub has zero idea how to teach. They are babysitting and maybe handing out a reading or related activity. Teacher here and, unless they were a former teacher, there’s no way I would want a sub teaching a lesson.

Exactly. Also, when would the sub put together materials? They are definitely not paid enough to work outside of the school day, which is when teachers do pretty much all of their planning. If the expectation was full on lesson planning for a sub, I doubt ANYONE would take the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP.
The exact same thing happened in the few weeks before the drama teacher started.
I don't understand why subs in situations like this are not doing any instruction.
Is it one bad sub? There is a curriculum. How dare the guy show up to class as a substitute teacher and then not teach anything at all?

Because a sub has zero idea how to teach. They are babysitting and maybe handing out a reading or related activity. Teacher here and, unless they were a former teacher, there’s no way I would want a sub teaching a lesson.

Exactly. Also, when would the sub put together materials? They are definitely not paid enough to work outside of the school day, which is when teachers do pretty much all of their planning. If the expectation was full on lesson planning for a sub, I doubt ANYONE would take the job.

I get that for one-off subbing, but this is a multiple weeks situation. How are there not prior years' materials somewhere available to faculty? Prior years, or nearby school's materials? Or DCPS central's? It's simply not ok to make kids sit around 90 minutes several times a week, for multiple weeks, *and* pay a substitute teacher for that time! That sub, at the very least, should be prepping lessons while they're ignoring idle students in front of them, rather than scrolling tiktok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a mess, OP. So disheartening to hear. DCPS is really dropping the ball at Walls and Hardy this fall. You're going to see more IB Hardy families shoot for BASIS and Latin this lottery season.

Doubtful.

[Anonymous]

NP here. When PP’s comment that dcps doesn’t want Hardy to be successful, is this facetious? Or an actual thing? I’ve heard the same about Hyde but can’t figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP.
The exact same thing happened in the few weeks before the drama teacher started.
I don't understand why subs in situations like this are not doing any instruction.
Is it one bad sub? There is a curriculum. How dare the guy show up to class as a substitute teacher and then not teach anything at all?

Because a sub has zero idea how to teach. They are babysitting and maybe handing out a reading or related activity. Teacher here and, unless they were a former teacher, there’s no way I would want a sub teaching a lesson.

Exactly. Also, when would the sub put together materials? They are definitely not paid enough to work outside of the school day, which is when teachers do pretty much all of their planning. If the expectation was full on lesson planning for a sub, I doubt ANYONE would take the job.

Isn’t there another Bio teacher at Hardy.
You would expect the other Bio teachers to share their lessons with the long term sub and also spend 15-20 min explaining it to them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. When PP’s comment that dcps doesn’t want Hardy to be successful, is this facetious? Or an actual thing? I’ve heard the same about Hyde but can’t figure it out.

Bureaucracies usually don't have feelings - they are either functional or not. That said, DCPS seems to be making decisions that are not helpful to the quality of education at Hardy. These decisions include cutting the school budget this year so severely that programming was affected and moving out a very well-liked principal who had turned the school around with someone without previous experience as a principal.

[Anonymous]

Last year at Deal they were doubling up classes when teachers left mid-year. Seems like for a short-term solution that would be the most fair for kids not receiving any instruction at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. When PP’s comment that dcps doesn’t want Hardy to be successful, is this facetious? Or an actual thing? I’ve heard the same about Hyde but can’t figure it out.

Bureaucracies usually don't have feelings - they are either functional or not. That said, DCPS seems to be making decisions that are not helpful to the quality of education at Hardy. These decisions include cutting the school budget this year so severely that programming was affected and moving out a very well-liked principal who had turned the school around with someone without previous experience as a principal.

Cooke was ready to move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year at Deal they were doubling up classes when teachers left mid-year. Seems like for a short-term solution that would be the most fair for kids not receiving any instruction at all.

This year too.