Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

This makes no actual sense but ok. Not sure why you’re trying to undo what they learned in algebra

Ironically, yours makes no sense at all and your desperate attempt with that “analogy” is not germane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

This makes no actual sense but ok. Not sure why you’re trying to undo what they learned in algebra

NP. Good Lord! Your parents undid your reading skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We talked about this, IMO it shouldn’t be allowed, and they shouldn’t be doing it if they care about the kids. My DS bio teacher quit after winter break.

It's not the military, so they can leave if they want to. I agree that they should try to finish the year for the kids, but I can see why they might need to leave a toxic environment.

This thinking is exactly why teachers are leaving. They’ve long sacrificed for kids, but the reality at the end of the day is that it’s a job. Teachers have their own families they need to sacrifice for. If we want teachers to treat the profession with more we should provide them greater training starting at college and pay them accordingly.

We spend 3-5 year’s training doctors after medical school and then pay them 6 figures. At some point we are going to value the profession that makes all the others possible.

We should. Are we smart enough to do that? We couldn’t even manage to keep it together as a society during a pandemic.

Unfortunately, a large portion of our country no longer GAF about facts or common good. They are anti-education and pro-propaganda.

[Anonymous]

I do home based therapy and I can confirm the screens. When I come to the home to do a therapy session, the parents don't turn off the TV, I always have to ask. So, I know the TV is on all day and the kids also have tablets. For a variety of reasons, most of the families are in the house all day and don't leave much. We beg to get them to come to our free playgroups. And when we talk about playing with their children, they pull out the flashcards they have been using.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a high school teacher with middle school and elementary aged children of my own, so I have a wide swath of ages and behaviors I’m familiar with and I’ve come to the conclusion that the children in k-12 schools today are the result of way too much exposure to screens from an early age.

They lack attention span and perseverance because they’re conditioned to have constant stimulation and a quick swipe to the next thing if they’re bored. They lack fine motor skills because they just tap and swipe from a young age. They lack reading and verbal skills because they simply receive input from a screen but rarely generate anything of their own or have to break it down themselves. They lack social skills because they don’t socialize in person as much. Their parents are helpless to turn the ship around at this point so the behaviors simply persist. It’s horrific tbh. Screens have absolutely stunted a generation of children.

Thank you for this wake-up call. Parents have got to reset priorities before it’s too late.

[Anonymous]

I was a full-time elementary volunteer and I can tell you before the pandemic what I saw with teachers was pathetic. Laziness, whining, glossing over curicullum and skipping a great deal of what is required. Just don’t want to be bothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

No it isn’t. There are some bad teachers, no doubt. The issue is, the system is so messed up and the job so impossible, that the good ones simply burn out and leave . The bad ones can last forever because what do they care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was a full-time elementary volunteer and I can tell you before the pandemic what I saw with teachers was pathetic. Laziness, whining, glossing over curicullum and skipping a great deal of what is required. Just don’t want to be bothered.

What is a full-time elementary volunteer in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a PhD and am a school psychologist in FCPS and make $75k ( 3 years into my career). I also have 100k in debt lol but that’s my own fault for thinking being a school psych was worth it bc I wanted to help kids lol.

Anyway, I work 40 hours a week in person and there is real pressure to work more. The majority of my friends in other fields make 70k+, work from home, and get their nails done in the middle of the day while I’m being hit by a child with emotional issues and yelled at by an advocate that I’m torturing a poor defenseless child by not giving them 1,000,000 hours of special education services.

I LOVE education but damn I do feel like the grass could be greener somewhere else.

You should look into remote therapy work. There’s a huge hiring surge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

Teachers want to teach. If that’s not happening there is a bigger problem. They can’t fix kids. They can’t fix unrealistic expectations. They can’t do it all. Other people play a role in creating the school environment and child development. Legislatures, school board, administrators, and, yes, even parents all have the more power. The people actually teaching? Unfortunately, not so much. Teachers need to be valued more and given a voice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

Teachers want to teach. If that’s not happening there is a bigger problem. They can’t fix kids. They can’t fix unrealistic expectations. They can’t do it all. Other people play a role in creating the school environment and child development. Legislatures, school board, administrators, and, yes, even parents all have the more power. The people actually teaching? Unfortunately, not so much. Teachers need to be valued more and given a voice.

They will be valued when they deserve to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

Teachers want to teach. If that’s not happening there is a bigger problem. They can’t fix kids. They can’t fix unrealistic expectations. They can’t do it all. Other people play a role in creating the school environment and child development. Legislatures, school board, administrators, and, yes, even parents all have the more power. The people actually teaching? Unfortunately, not so much. Teachers need to be valued more and given a voice.

They will be valued when they deserve to be.

You are an idiot and a huge part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

This forum attracts the dissatisfied and those with political purposes (eg the ones who mention the school board in every single school thread). But it’s important to keep in mind that most parents are satisfied with their school and teacher and FCPS. I attended one of the superintendent conversations in the fall and one of the strategic planning forums in the winter and both had people who had recently moved to FCPS from out of state commenting in how good their experience had been so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

Teachers want to teach. If that’s not happening there is a bigger problem. They can’t fix kids. They can’t fix unrealistic expectations. They can’t do it all. Other people play a role in creating the school environment and child development. Legislatures, school board, administrators, and, yes, even parents all have the more power. The people actually teaching? Unfortunately, not so much. Teachers need to be valued more and given a voice.

They will be valued when they deserve to be.

You are an idiot and a huge part of the problem.

Pot meet kettle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I say this as a parent and a teacher: how your children develop and turn out is always on you as the parent. Always.

Teachers can influence behavior while at school for most. They just don’t want to be bothered often.

No, I see why you might think that, but I cannot undo your parenting. Your influence is the important one.

Neither can parents undo your teaching.

Or, lack of teaching. The teacher just throws the pre-canned Social Studies slides at the students yesterday (67 slides) and tells them to do as many as possible. No teaching, no lecture, no read aloud… That’s teaching folks?

Teachers want to teach. If that’s not happening there is a bigger problem. They can’t fix kids. They can’t fix unrealistic expectations. They can’t do it all. Other people play a role in creating the school environment and child development. Legislatures, school board, administrators, and, yes, even parents all have the more power. The people actually teaching? Unfortunately, not so much. Teachers need to be valued more and given a voice.

They will be valued when they deserve to be.

You are an idiot and a huge part of the problem.

Pot meet kettle.

No, I values teachers and do what I can to support them and their classrooms. I work with my kids at home to respectful and prepared to learn.

I would gladly pay more taxes for better staffing/pay. I support removing superfluous requirements.

Teachers should have more of a voice so we can improve education.