Teacher retention rate hits 90% benchmark

[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/

This is FCPS propaganda. They revise the data to show the numbers they want to show. Behaviors are still a problem and retention is still a concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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/

This is FCPS propaganda. They revise the data to show the numbers they want to show. Behaviors are still a problem and retention is still a concern.

+1

I know of schools that lost 2+ teachers in a few grades.

[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.

Lol is this how you feel about your own kids? Or the kids you teach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have to ask:

- are you Karl Frisch?

PP, I have to ask? Are you this stupid ALL the time?

[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.

Clearly didn't read the link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!"

Only like 1% of the population cares about your stupid football "scandal"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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/

This is FCPS propaganda. They revise the data to show the numbers they want to show. Behaviors are still a problem and retention is still a concern.

+1

I know of schools that lost 2+ teachers in a few grades.

Our school only lost two teachers last year - one got pregnant, the other had a mental health breakdown.

[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 don’t know. I teach kindergarten and this is my 2nd toughest year with behaviors and immaturity. The worst being the first year back after Covid (not virtual start year).

I fear this is a trend and things are getting worse. Add in benchmark and all of the expectations put on us and it’s a tough year for a lot of teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 don’t know. I teach kindergarten and this is my 2nd toughest year with behaviors and immaturity. The worst being the first year back after Covid (not virtual start year).

I fear this is a trend and things are getting worse. Add in benchmark and all of the expectations put on us and it’s a tough year for a lot of teachers.

I am sorry.

The current kindergartens are the first full cohort of kids who spent their entire toddler and preschool years staring at an ipad so their parents could stare at their phones, and the first few years of their lives, the language and social cue development years, masked up staring at faces that were masked. You can't tell me that the lack of faces for the first two years of their lives didn't damage their language and social development. God bless you and all early childhood teachers for trying to walk back and rebuild that developmental disaster.

[Anonymous]

I don't think there is any coming back from the way kids are being raised. I think many parents just don't want to do the work associated with parenting so they use screens to deal with the unpleasantness of childhood. I've never had so many kids who can't really 1) make sustained eye contact 2) carry on a simple back and forth conversation 3) read body language 4) just sit and do nothing for a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 don’t know. I teach kindergarten and this is my 2nd toughest year with behaviors and immaturity. The worst being the first year back after Covid (not virtual start year).

I fear this is a trend and things are getting worse. Add in benchmark and all of the expectations put on us and it’s a tough year for a lot of teachers.

I am sorry.

The current kindergartens are the first full cohort of kids who spent their entire toddler and preschool years staring at an ipad so their parents could stare at their phones, and the first few years of their lives, the language and social cue development years, masked up staring at faces that were masked. You can't tell me that the lack of faces for the first two years of their lives didn't damage their language and social development. God bless you and all early childhood teachers for trying to walk back and rebuild that developmental disaster.

Yeah I know. I guess it can get better next year the further out we get from it.

[Anonymous]

Take out the teacher trainees and teachers from abroad and let’s see the actual numbers.

[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.

+1
I personally think it’s awful to make students even more confused by not even being able to understand their teacher. I had several professors in college who had such thick accents that no one could tell what they were saying. Consequently, there were many bad grades/failures. This is the worst way to hire teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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/

This is FCPS propaganda. They revise the data to show the numbers they want to show. Behaviors are still a problem and retention is still a concern.

Yep. The substitute app is almost entirely for SPED teachers. They seem to be leaving in droves and I can’t say I blame them.

Even the non-SPED classes are still filled with behavior issues.

[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/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?