Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

Wow. Thank you for this measured response. That all makes complete and utter sense and you show that there is a way through. Thank you. I hope someone in power will listen to you!

It was a load of nonsense. Sorry, parents, it’s 2023 and kids have been in person for a long damn time. Time to retire the tired pandemic excuse. If your kids went feral during DL, that’s on no one but YOU.

As a teacher I just want to repeat something I mentioned in another thread or earlier than this one, can’t remember: the issue with schools right now is not solely attributable to a 6 month break that happened 3 years ago. That doesn’t hold water anymore, not least of which because the issues perseverate down to kids who weren’t IN school when the pandemic happened. K and 1st are a mess too- those kids were not in school or affected by any online learning.

What is happening is we have an entire k-12 generation who has grown up on handheld screens and lack of real life activity and engagement. Their parents (not all, but the parents who have helped create these issues) parented them by shoving a screen in their hands from toddlerhood. Todays seniors were born in 2005. By 2007-2008 when they were 2/3, their parents had a smartphone with apps and videos. They grew up sitting at dinner tables mindlessly staring at YouTube and shoveling food in their face. They got their verbal language from an app or video. Same with motor skills. My students are in 10th grade and all say they don’t even eat as a family - they all grab a plate and go watch a screen somewhere in the house. This is the norm.

So, right in line with this generation being raised this way, schools concurrently realized oh shit, discipline data looks bad . Let’s just stop disciplining these behaviors and then the bad data goes away. A generation of kids have been raised on terrible reading curriculum so they can’t meaningfully read either. They’ve been raised on screens and have no attention span, few true social skills, lack of reading and writing skills, and parents who don’t know what to do now that they’re too old to just shove in the corner with a phone. So what do the kids do? Cope the only way they know how- shove themselves in a corner to numb out on a screen.

Interesting. If you think that all of these problems were caused by screens and bad parents, that makes the decision to close schools and prohibit normal childhood activities even more morally reprehensible.

The democrat-controlled School Board kept schoolteachers out of school far too long, and long after most (90%) had already been vaccinated.

Democrat lockdown policies produced devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates for other diseases, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school was a grave injustice.

But the school board ignored parents concerns for well over a year.

You can help change that in November. Vote the democrats off the school board. Voting “D” in this next election is literally voting against your children’s own interests.

Republicans are christofascists hth

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

Wow. Thank you for this measured response. That all makes complete and utter sense and you show that there is a way through. Thank you. I hope someone in power will listen to you!

It was a load of nonsense. Sorry, parents, it’s 2023 and kids have been in person for a long damn time. Time to retire the tired pandemic excuse. If your kids went feral during DL, that’s on no one but YOU.

As a teacher I just want to repeat something I mentioned in another thread or earlier than this one, can’t remember: the issue with schools right now is not solely attributable to a 6 month break that happened 3 years ago. That doesn’t hold water anymore, not least of which because the issues perseverate down to kids who weren’t IN school when the pandemic happened. K and 1st are a mess too- those kids were not in school or affected by any online learning.

What is happening is we have an entire k-12 generation who has grown up on handheld screens and lack of real life activity and engagement. Their parents (not all, but the parents who have helped create these issues) parented them by shoving a screen in their hands from toddlerhood. Todays seniors were born in 2005. By 2007-2008 when they were 2/3, their parents had a smartphone with apps and videos. They grew up sitting at dinner tables mindlessly staring at YouTube and shoveling food in their face. They got their verbal language from an app or video. Same with motor skills. My students are in 10th grade and all say they don’t even eat as a family - they all grab a plate and go watch a screen somewhere in the house. This is the norm.

So, right in line with this generation being raised this way, schools concurrently realized oh shit, discipline data looks bad . Let’s just stop disciplining these behaviors and then the bad data goes away. A generation of kids have been raised on terrible reading curriculum so they can’t meaningfully read either. They’ve been raised on screens and have no attention span, few true social skills, lack of reading and writing skills, and parents who don’t know what to do now that they’re too old to just shove in the corner with a phone. So what do the kids do? Cope the only way they know how- shove themselves in a corner to numb out on a screen.

Interesting. If you think that all of these problems were caused by screens and bad parents, that makes the decision to close schools and prohibit normal childhood activities even more morally reprehensible.

The democrat-controlled School Board kept schoolteachers out of school far too long, and long after most (90%) had already been vaccinated.

Democrat lockdown policies produced devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates for other diseases, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school was a grave injustice.

But the school board ignored parents concerns for well over a year.

You can help change that in November. Vote the democrats off the school board. Voting “D” in this next election is literally voting against your children’s own interests.

Start a new thread and list all the Republican candidates and state your predictions of what you think these Republicans will do differently.

I honestly considered it until I looked into some of these candidates, read their platforms and realized they were ignorant bigoted idiots. The Democrats are bad, but those people were even worse.

- independent voter

DP. I'm an independent voter and no, o don't think the Democrat school board candidates are better or forward looking. Or interested in academics, which are mutually exclusive with equity, as it is currently interpreted.

Show me one Republican candidate who is interested in academics for the sake of academics (and not for the sake of advancing their own political agenda) and I will vote for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've witnessed kids are behaving better this year than at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when middle school students and 9th graders seemed particularly feral. It's just going to take some time given the disruption to learning and development. Parents can't expect teachers to be miracle workers nor can teachers expect parents to have fully compensated for the disruption forced upon them by the public schools. What the teachers can and should do is push back against the refusal of school administrators to discipline students or the imposition of oppressive training and ongoing reporting requirements that interferes with their ability to function effectively in a classroom.

Wow. Thank you for this measured response. That all makes complete and utter sense and you show that there is a way through. Thank you. I hope someone in power will listen to you!

It was a load of nonsense. Sorry, parents, it’s 2023 and kids have been in person for a long damn time. Time to retire the tired pandemic excuse. If your kids went feral during DL, that’s on no one but YOU.

As a teacher I just want to repeat something I mentioned in another thread or earlier than this one, can’t remember: the issue with schools right now is not solely attributable to a 6 month break that happened 3 years ago. That doesn’t hold water anymore, not least of which because the issues perseverate down to kids who weren’t IN school when the pandemic happened. K and 1st are a mess too- those kids were not in school or affected by any online learning.

What is happening is we have an entire k-12 generation who has grown up on handheld screens and lack of real life activity and engagement. Their parents (not all, but the parents who have helped create these issues) parented them by shoving a screen in their hands from toddlerhood. Todays seniors were born in 2005. By 2007-2008 when they were 2/3, their parents had a smartphone with apps and videos. They grew up sitting at dinner tables mindlessly staring at YouTube and shoveling food in their face. They got their verbal language from an app or video. Same with motor skills. My students are in 10th grade and all say they don’t even eat as a family - they all grab a plate and go watch a screen somewhere in the house. This is the norm.

So, right in line with this generation being raised this way, schools concurrently realized oh shit, discipline data looks bad . Let’s just stop disciplining these behaviors and then the bad data goes away. A generation of kids have been raised on terrible reading curriculum so they can’t meaningfully read either. They’ve been raised on screens and have no attention span, few true social skills, lack of reading and writing skills, and parents who don’t know what to do now that they’re too old to just shove in the corner with a phone. So what do the kids do? Cope the only way they know how- shove themselves in a corner to numb out on a screen.

Interesting. If you think that all of these problems were caused by screens and bad parents, that makes the decision to close schools and prohibit normal childhood activities even more morally reprehensible.

The democrat-controlled School Board kept schoolteachers out of school far too long, and long after most (90%) had already been vaccinated.

Democrat lockdown policies produced devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates for other diseases, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school was a grave injustice.

But the school board ignored parents concerns for well over a year.

You can help change that in November. Vote the democrats off the school board. Voting “D” in this next election is literally voting against your children’s own interests.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Electing more MAGA fascists to school boards is.just going to increase the number of teachers leaving, but that's what you all want.

[Anonymous]

The school board members aren’t supposed to be affiliated with a party. That’s one problem. Another is that the board lacks diversity in outlook. They sit in a circle and hold hands or something. And the more annoying problem is that the last couple of GOP endorsed candidates that would represent a different view were horrible jerks laughing at a kid.

I want a board that laser focuses on education (this board does not come close) and treats people respectfully. This should not be a big ask.

[Anonymous]

There are candidates affiliated with both parties who seriously suck. I suggest you do what “research” you can on an individual before endorsing him or her. Don’t vote along party lines.

[Anonymous]

Several of my teacher friends are looking to get out of FCPS and are looking to switch to private schools, even though the salaries are lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Electing more MAGA fascists to school boards is.just going to increase the number of teachers leaving, but that's what you all want.

New poster in this thread. It’s actually the opposite of what I want, but I detest the one party school board that is ramming the boundary review down our throats.

I’d love to support sensible policies that compensate teachers well, but instead we get fringe left policies based solely on equity.

[Anonymous]

Wasn’t FCPS just touting 90% retention?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t FCPS just touting 90% retention?

I no longer trust what fcps touts.

[Anonymous]

Yes,‘retention is up and vacancy rate is down. Data is provided on the boarddocs for thenlast regular school board meeting. Someone deciding to bunp this old trhread and share anonymous anecdotes doesn’t change the data.

[Anonymous]

How many of the teachers have certifications? A neighbor became a teacher last year and is working toward her certification but doesn’t have it yet.

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