Alleged teacher shortage

[Anonymous]

And at that same school, a special ed teacher just resigned, rather than go back in the building with no testing and terrible ventilation in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

FCPS lost ~10% of the cohort staff according to the WaPo article. How would losing that same 10% system-wide affect Hybrid and Full Return for this school year?

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Anonymous wrote:And at that same school, a special ed teacher just resigned, rather than go back in the building with no testing and terrible ventilation in the classroom.

DP. Same thing at my school. Two of our special ed teachers resigned. One works with low incidence disabilities and was worried about endangering a household member who has a serious health condition. She knew she'd be in a room with unmasked students and would get no support from admin. Both had over a decade of experience and were excellent at their jobs. Their IAs are probably resigning too, because they know they'll most likely get stuck with a horribly unqualified long term sub and will end up doing most of the work and getting paid peanuts.

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Anonymous wrote:And at that same school, a special ed teacher just resigned, rather than go back in the building with no testing and terrible ventilation in the classroom.

DP. Same thing at my school. Two of our special ed teachers resigned. One works with low incidence disabilities and was worried about endangering a household member who has a serious health condition. She knew she'd be in a room with unmasked students and would get no support from admin. Both had over a decade of experience and were excellent at their jobs. Their IAs are probably resigning too, because they know they'll most likely get stuck with a horribly unqualified long term sub and will end up doing most of the work and getting paid peanuts.

This is not the same thing as a teacher going to back into a distanced gen ed classroom with masked students. I highly doubt we will lose 10% of those.

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Anonymous wrote:Just go to the Employment section of the FCPS website. You will see the pages and pages of jobs. They are in all areas and at all grade levels.

I paid attention for the first time this school year and noticed that there were pages of jobs available all year long. Usually positions are filled by Sept 1 or August at the latest. That wasn’t the case this year.

I spoke with someone in leadership about it once during casual conversation and they confirmed that yes the shortage is real.

There are 113 openings advertised. https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm ...and that includes all full and part time teacher scale positions.

That's a vacency rate of .0061

That's really, really low.

Nope, there is no shortage.

It doesn't seem like a shortage until there's 25 to 35 kids in your class. Then it definitely is!

Correct. A shortage doesn’t mean “zero teachers .” It means “every teacher have has 40 students instead of 20.”

Exactly. I can manage 35-40 per class doing DL. There is no way I can manage in person with the current class sizes because my classroom just isn't big enough to handle close to 40. Forget about hybrid - two classes of 20 per half day isn't going to work because there is no social distancing.

Parents need to get real. Your refusal to adapt to DL is the biggest problem we have right now because the logistics of hybrid and f2f for all just don't work. We don't have enough teachers!

Okay, I will just tell my 1st grader to “adapt” to learning by watching a screen all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

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Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

Just so I understand, DCUM posters have been clamoring for teachers to retire or take LOA if they didn't feel safe returning to school; one of those teachers actually did that and you're calling it unprofessional?

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Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

Just so I understand, DCUM posters have been clamoring for teachers to retire or take LOA if they didn't feel safe returning to school; one of those teachers actually did that and you're calling it unprofessional?

DCUM in pure essence.

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Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

Just so I understand, DCUM posters have been clamoring for teachers to retire or take LOA if they didn't feel safe returning to school; one of those teachers actually did that and you're calling it unprofessional?

DCUM in pure essence.

NP here. She should have quit this summer, when a replacement could have started the year with the students. Nothing has changed since this summer, why did she wait so long?

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Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

Just so I understand, DCUM posters have been clamoring for teachers to retire or take LOA if they didn't feel safe returning to school; one of those teachers actually did that and you're calling it unprofessional?

DCUM in pure essence.

NP here. She should have quit this summer, when a replacement could have started the year with the students. Nothing has changed since this summer, why did she wait so long?

There were job postings then and there are still job postings now. No one was applying if she quit earlier. At least the students had one quarter with a teacher instead of starting the year with a sub.

[Anonymous]

I have heard from a few teachers that may be asked to teach multiple grade levels that they will resign.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard from a few teachers that may be asked to teach multiple grade levels that they will resign.

Anywhere between 10-15% resignations/LOA basically reduces de chances of in-person from slim to none. If predictions are anywhere close to what’s being thrown around then we are in for a rude awakening.

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Anonymous wrote:A beloved 6th grade teacher at the school my child attended last year put in her retirement papers a year early this month. An FCPS ES. They are not rehiring for her position...all the kids are getting broken out into all the other teachers’ classes.

At the same school, another teacher just resigned because she would have to return in the first cohort and it was too risky for her family.

She quit a year into the school year? How unprofessional.

Just so I understand, DCUM posters have been clamoring for teachers to retire or take LOA if they didn't feel safe returning to school; one of those teachers actually did that and you're calling it unprofessional?

DCUM in pure essence.

NP here. She should have quit this summer, when a replacement could have started the year with the students. Nothing has changed since this summer, why did she wait so long?

There were job postings then and there are still job postings now. No one was applying if she quit earlier. At least the students had one quarter with a teacher instead of starting the year with a sub.

Half a quarter. They got 1/8 of a school year with a real teacher. Lucky them.

[Anonymous]

Many many individual schools are not going to have staffing issues. Those schools should be allowed to proceed with hybrid. Punishing an entire county full of kids because of a few schools is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Time to lower the hiring standards. Private schools have some great teachers who fcps could use if they did away with some of the education requirements. There are some fine teachers from other countries and other fine individuals who may hold a degree in something else. Maybe they could hire some with associate degrees and just lengthen the probation period. I have met some highly educated teachers who are not very good at their jobs at all. There are plenty of people who would work. Fcps needs to change hiring practices.