Name your school so you can get fired. No student should have to endure you. |
+1. Sounds like an inexperienced principal. |
Wow, even the teachers who are there suck! Rather have a sub than you. |
DP. Perhaps the teacher above should have been a bit more respectful. We can agree there. But things are going to get much worse. Those amazing teachers everybody wants? They are quitting at a rapid pace. Frankly, this job is far too demanding and people are burning out. I’m watching my experienced coworkers leave for more pay elsewhere, and I’m watching inexperienced new teachers quit before their first year is done. |
I doubt the poster is a MCPS teacher. Most of the posters are trolls. |
I’m a different PP but at the same school. The extra class was added the day before classes started and no candidates were available at that point. It’s actually a very experienced principal who is usually really good at this but the timing here was impossible. You can reserve someone when lots of other schools know they have positions confirmed. |
The principal should not have split the classes up until they had a new teacher hired. The teacher shortage is a real thing, and an experienced principal should have known how hard it would be to hire a teacher at that point. I feel bad for these first graders. |
Welcome to the new normal in public education. |
The truth hurts. |
You think that's bad? It's typical. When a special education teacher is absent, no one fills in. They leave the kids with the two paraeducators. The whole thing is really sad. My high school student has a part-time teacher who travels from West Virginia to Montgomery County Public Schools and doesn't even show up on time half the week. That teacher also works part-time as a nurse so she's absent a lot. It's gross. |
Is this a school in a lower-income cluster?
I apologize for inserting socio-economic class into this, but my kids have never had long-term subs in any class (last one is in high school now), and they're in a high-income school cluster. Teachers were happy to come teach in our area. |
No teacher is happy to teach a class of over 30+ kids regardless of high income cluster or not. |
Welcome to MCPS, this is normal. Ask to be moved to another classroom if there is space and get some workbooks and supplement at home. |
A sub for a day or two is ok, no teacher for months is not. One of the BEST teachers we had was a para for 5th. She was great. The teacher came back from maternity leave and was terrible. |
I disagree. I'm in a situation now where all the kindergarten classes are well above the max (a Title I/Focus school with 22-23 kids per class, supposed to be capped at 18/19). There is no more money for an additional allocation and so we are stuck with huge classes. The principal of this particular school likely recognized that the offer of another class was fleeting and it was best to take it while you can. Even the situation of having two staff members cover the class (I'm guessing a reading teacher and a math teacher) is better than having huge classes. Hopefully the long-term sub is getting support, but really, I will argue that I'd rather my 1st grader be in a small class with a so-so inexperienced teacher than a big class with someone "better" at teaching. |