Teacher resignation in Arlington Schools very high this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you been living in a cave? In a news blackout?

There is a national teacher shortage CRISIS. Right now, Fairfax County has about 850 vacancies. Compare that to a year ago this time when they had 550. And four years ago, there were 350 vacancies at this time.

There is not one single solution. But parents have to get engaged and demand higher pay and more respect. Colleges are seeing fewer and fewer students enter teacher prep programs. We need to raise the status of being a teacher.

Teachers AND parents are fed up with the unions. Duh.

VA teachers aren’t unionized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First of all, teachers are exhausted.

Beyond that-

Entitled parents

Lack of support from the higher ups

Increasing demands and responsibilities

Low pay

Syphax hiring people who bring a whole new way of doing x, y, z and then leave before they see it through and all they care about is advancing their own career.

Syphax staff has ballooned at the same time class sizes are increasing and students out of classrooms for a year! The lack of support from them is immense- how about going in to a school building once in a while? Supervisors so out of touch about what is actually happening in the buildings, while demanding teachers be responsible for useless tasks that are huge timesucks. Sayonara!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, teachers are exhausted.

Beyond that-

Entitled parents

Lack of support from the higher ups

Increasing demands and responsibilities

Low pay

Syphax hiring people who bring a whole new way of doing x, y, z and then leave before they see it through and all they care about is advancing their own career.

Syphax staff has ballooned at the same time class sizes are increasing and students out of classrooms for a year! The lack of support from them is immense- how about going in to a school building once in a while? Supervisors so out of touch about what is actually happening in the buildings, while demanding teachers be responsible for useless tasks that are huge timesucks. Sayonara!

I’d love for them to justify one more central office position in the name of equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Syphax + feral kids

+1

APS poured resources into expanding Syphax, when those resources could've been used to directly impact teachers and kids. In other words, APS spent millions on things like a district-level virtual school and new chiefs of everything, instead of reducing class sizes or doing more to retain teachers and staff. I don't even remember if the virtual school will exist next year, but it was a fiasco that cost a great deal of money.

While the central office was mushrooming, demands on teachers and staff were increasing. So many kids were a mess emotionally and academically this year. Teachers were just told to work harder, be creative, and figure it out. APS is a well-resourced school district. Those resources just didn't get to teachers or to many students who needed them this past year. I'm guessing APS teachers who resigned either decided to go teach closer to home, as many live outside of Arlington, or to go into another field entirely.

+1000
They put too much pressure on schools and teachers without giving resources. Syphax keeps growing and adding people whose job is to “monitor” “supervise” and “oversee” schools but never work directly with kids. It is disheartening. Teachers get tired of the same crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, teachers are exhausted.

Beyond that-

Entitled parents

Lack of support from the higher ups

Increasing demands and responsibilities

Low pay

Syphax hiring people who bring a whole new way of doing x, y, z and then leave before they see it through and all they care about is advancing their own career.

Well said!
Schools don’t even have subs. Meantime Syphax people who could easily sub never show up in schools.
Syphax staff has ballooned at the same time class sizes are increasing and students out of classrooms for a year! The lack of support from them is immense- how about going in to a school building once in a while? Supervisors so out of touch about what is actually happening in the buildings, while demanding teachers be responsible for useless tasks that are huge timesucks. Sayonara!

I’d love for them to justify one more central office position in the name of equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, teachers are exhausted.

Beyond that-

Entitled parents

Lack of support from the higher ups

Increasing demands and responsibilities

Low pay

Syphax hiring people who bring a whole new way of doing x, y, z and then leave before they see it through and all they care about is advancing their own career.

Well said!
Schools don’t even have subs. Meantime Syphax people who could easily sub never show up in schools.
Syphax staff has ballooned at the same time class sizes are increasing and students out of classrooms for a year! The lack of support from them is immense- how about going in to a school building once in a while? Supervisors so out of touch about what is actually happening in the buildings, while demanding teachers be responsible for useless tasks that are huge timesucks. Sayonara!

I’d love for them to justify one more central office position in the name of equity.

Seems pretty easy to me. "If you don't support the new position, you're racist."

[Anonymous]

Remember when a majority of teachers refused to go to work in the fall 2020?

These are not model employees. They've shown 0 regrets about the damage they caused kids, especially the most disadvantaged.

I wish all who refused to work leave and don't let the door hit them on the way out. They've done enough damage to our public school system and should retire or find a new career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember when a majority of teachers refused to go to work in the fall 2020?

These are not model employees. They've shown 0 regrets about the damage they caused kids, especially the most disadvantaged.

I wish all who refused to work leave and don't let the door hit them on the way out. They've done enough damage to our public school system and should retire or find a new career.

Flat out LIE. Show that data. No I guess you can't.

[Anonymous]

The reasons are COVID and YOUNGKIN's policies. Working in the schools these past few years has not been the same as it used to be. It was a very stressful school year. On top of all that the more understaffed a school is the harder the job is for those who stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you been living in a cave? In a news blackout?

There is a national teacher shortage CRISIS. Right now, Fairfax County has about 850 vacancies. Compare that to a year ago this time when they had 550. And four years ago, there were 350 vacancies at this time.

There is not one single solution. But parents have to get engaged and demand higher pay and more respect. Colleges are seeing fewer and fewer students enter teacher prep programs. We need to raise the status of being a teacher.

Teachers AND parents are fed up with the unions. Duh.

VA teachers aren’t unionized.

I'm a teacher, and the only reason I'm fed up with the union is for them not being aggressive enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reasons are COVID and YOUNGKIN's policies. Working in the schools these past few years has not been the same as it used to be. It was a very stressful school year. On top of all that the more understaffed a school is the harder the job is for those who stay.

I'm a teacher, and Youngkin's policies haven't effected me one bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Syphax + feral kids

+1

APS poured resources into expanding Syphax, when those resources could've been used to directly impact teachers and kids. In other words, APS spent millions on things like a district-level virtual school and new chiefs of everything, instead of reducing class sizes or doing more to retain teachers and staff. I don't even remember if the virtual school will exist next year, but it was a fiasco that cost a great deal of money.

While the central office was mushrooming, demands on teachers and staff were increasing. So many kids were a mess emotionally and academically this year. Teachers were just told to work harder, be creative, and figure it out. APS is a well-resourced school district. Those resources just didn't get to teachers or to many students who needed them this past year. I'm guessing APS teachers who resigned either decided to go teach closer to home, as many live outside of Arlington, or to go into another field entirely.

No, it is the know-it-all parents who can’t stay in their lane.

Spoken like a true Stalinist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you been living in a cave? In a news blackout?

There is a national teacher shortage CRISIS. Right now, Fairfax County has about 850 vacancies. Compare that to a year ago this time when they had 550. And four years ago, there were 350 vacancies at this time.

There is not one single solution. But parents have to get engaged and demand higher pay and more respect. Colleges are seeing fewer and fewer students enter teacher prep programs. We need to raise the status of being a teacher.

Teachers AND parents are fed up with the unions. Duh.

VA teachers aren’t unionized.

Huh. What about the AEA and how the state chapter had to take over Arlington’s version because of financial misadventure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember when a majority of teachers refused to go to work in the fall 2020?

These are not model employees. They've shown 0 regrets about the damage they caused kids, especially the most disadvantaged.

I wish all who refused to work leave and don't let the door hit them on the way out. They've done enough damage to our public school system and should retire or find a new career.

Flat out LIE. Show that data. No I guess you can't.

You show the data saying teachers wanted to teach in person.

I’ll bet you don’t have anything. No one measured so no data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember when a majority of teachers refused to go to work in the fall 2020?

These are not model employees. They've shown 0 regrets about the damage they caused kids, especially the most disadvantaged.

I wish all who refused to work leave and don't let the door hit them on the way out. They've done enough damage to our public school system and should retire or find a new career.

Flat out LIE. Show that data. No I guess you can't.

You show the data saying teachers wanted to teach in person.

I’ll bet you don’t have anything. No one measured so no data.

DP (a parent).

Wanting to teach in person is different than being able to teach in person. In the Fall of 2020, no children had been vaccinated. Some teachers had been vaccinated. Almost all teachers have family members, children and/or elderly, who would have been negatively impacted if the teacher brought home Covid and they, the family members, weren't vaccinated. I fully support the decision made by school systems for distance learning.

Enough with your desire to rehash the past. Quite frankly, you sound unbalanced and you reflect very poorly on all parents. If you wanted your children in school then you had other options beyond public school: homeschool, private school, online pods, etc. The fact that you didn't do any of those things makes me think that you're just lashing out because, well, you're unhinged, not really because of any other reason.