Enough already

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a principal. I spent most of December giving gifts, having fun events, visiting with teachers and doing everything possible to show the love. Basically it was a please-don’t-quit-over-break campaign. It’s a hard time to be a teacher.

Please come and be the principal at the school that I teach at! My principal treats us like we can’t ever do anything right. We never get any type of appreciation except from each other. It really brings us down!

You should switch schools. There are a lot of amazing principals in FCPS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a principal. I spent most of December giving gifts, having fun events, visiting with teachers and doing everything possible to show the love. Basically it was a please-don’t-quit-over-break campaign. It’s a hard time to be a teacher.

Please come and be the principal at the school that I teach at! My principal treats us like we can’t ever do anything right. We never get any type of appreciation except from each other. It really brings us down!

You should switch schools. There are a lot of amazing principals in FCPS!

DP
How is one to know without it being a crap shoot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a principal. I spent most of December giving gifts, having fun events, visiting with teachers and doing everything possible to show the love. Basically it was a please-don’t-quit-over-break campaign. It’s a hard time to be a teacher.

Please come and be the principal at the school that I teach at! My principal treats us like we can’t ever do anything right. We never get any type of appreciation except from each other. It really brings us down!

You should switch schools. There are a lot of amazing principals in FCPS!

DP
How is one to know without it being a crap shoot?

Honestly, start asking around. People talk. There are Facebook pages for FCPS employees where you can start threads anonymously and ask for information about working at specific schools. You can also look at the vacancies page. If a school did not recently undergo a major expansion or add an additional program and there are multiple vacancies across grade levels or subjects, that's a red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Touched a nerve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Touched a nerve?

Not the PP but maybe they touched a nerve for you because you know you really do sit around doing nothing but complaining and being a crappy human like you are on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Touched a nerve?

Not the PP but maybe they touched a nerve for you because you know you really do sit around doing nothing but complaining and being a crappy human like you are on here.

Exactly! Insulting teachers like you are better, but evidence shows otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Touched a nerve?

All the D's and F's you got in high school still rankle, huh? Maybe try therapy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Sometimes they have to “put a pin in it” or “circle back” and, hoo boy, that’s an exhausting 3-4 minutes of work. Sometimes they don’t even get to their 3rd coffee break until almost 10AM!

Again, everyone of these people wouldn’t last a week in a teaching position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who can’t do, teach. This who can’t teach, teach gym.

+1

Do what? What 80% if DCUM probably does? Sit in meetings, create and reply to emails, socialize with co-workers in cubicles or on MS Teams? Then complete a task or two on the computer? That doesn’t display a lot of skill.

Touched a nerve?

Touched on truth. Life is really like Office Space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a principal. I spent most of December giving gifts, having fun events, visiting with teachers and doing everything possible to show the love. Basically it was a please-don’t-quit-over-break campaign. It’s a hard time to be a teacher.

Please tell your higher ups to get rid of both the minimum 50% policy and of open enrollment. My entire department is besides themselves about the 50%. I'm really tired of being expected to get students to pass SOLs and AP tests and being told at the same time that I have to "meet students where they're at." That sometimes means they're two or more years behind. We're passing kids who know next to nothing by inflating their grades with the 50% and they pay for it later.
About open enrollment, if you're worried about racists preventing a student from going into a class they deserve to be in, there's a simple and fair solution: a blind placement test. Students are assigned an identifier that corresponds to their ID number and is stored in a centralized database with no other identifiers of any kind and not accessible outside of Gatehouse.

As a parent, I think the 50 percent policy is good for Gen Ed classes but, if you want to kill two birds with one stone and discourage kids from taking honors classes, then remove the 50 percent policy from honors classes.

For kids in Gen Ed and those who are getting special Ed support, the 50 percent policy means that one bad grade/missed assignment doesn’t tank their average and gives them motivation to keep working in that class. But I agree that if a student chooses honors or AP classes, the standard should be higher and kids shouldn’t be gaming the system (especially with how competitive college admission is for high achieving students). BTW, the 50 percent rule is likely keeping some kids from getting IEPs because “they aren’t failing”, so I don’t think it only helps students; it preserves resources (for better or worse).

I hope you realize sped comes in many forms. Many (not all) but many in sped can get most things done independently. Think your kid's gifted- that's a form of sped. Some sped is merely concerning emotional things. I think you need an update on what sped actually is.