Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this happening anywhere else? My DC's ES has has have five teachers resign mid year. Is this normal? What is happening?!

No, it’s very strange and definitely not normal

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sorry for your kid; the martyr complex you place on teachers might have been a contributing cause.

[Anonymous]

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.

Parents are fed up with this too. I feel like no one is listening.

I think school administrators are hesitant to discipline because parents are quick to sue and usually win. Too bad teachers can't sue to make sure that their workplaces are safe.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

No one resigning at our elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Parents are fed up with this too. I feel like no one is listening.

I think school administrators are hesitant to discipline because parents are quick to sue and usually win. Too bad teachers can't sue to make sure that their workplaces are safe.

Where in Fairfax County have parents sued and won because of a discipline issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

“It shouldn’t be allowed”??

No, teachers aren’t indentured servants.

Kids certainly aren’t learning how to respect teachers from parents like this.

[Anonymous]

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.

I hope all of your DS’s teachers leave before the end of the school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Parents are fed up with this too. I feel like no one is listening.

I think school administrators are hesitant to discipline because parents are quick to sue and usually win. Too bad teachers can't sue to make sure that their workplaces are safe.

No, they aren’t. They are hesitant to discipline because county leadership and ridiculous people like NAACP Education Chair Sujatha Hampton (herself, a pampered Langley parent) are going to criticize them if there are disparities in the suspension or expulsion rates among different student cohorts at individual schools or within FCPS as a whole.

[Anonymous]

My prediction is we're going to get to essentially a nationwide teacher crisis, which could show in a ton of ways (absurdly high/dangerous class sizes, allowing people with no qualifications teach, have an "aide" watch a class for half the day so a teacher does essentially two classes at once). Only once it reaches truly crisis levels will there be enough pressure on state and local governments to shift their thinking on teachers, dramatically increase teacher pay, and start treating teachers like professionals.

The "pink collar" issue for teachers is terrible - basically, we're still treating teachers like they're women who want to earn a little pocket money and get out of the house while their husbands are supporting the family, rather than like the professionals they are. Major disruption is needed. On the whole, this will be a positive change for society, but the kids who have to deal with this situation in the meantime are kinda screwed.

And for those who are thinking "we're there! This is a crisis!" - No. It can get much, much worse, and it'll have to for the kind of change I'm talking about. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[Anonymous]

Residents voted for this, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

100%

They can’t because it would trigger a DoE Civil Rights Division investigation.

[Anonymous]

I would resign too after so many parents hated on teachers for not wanting to go to a germy school during a pandemic. As if teaching isn't hard enough/underpaid enough already.

Plus all the woke politics on one side and hate from conservatives over imaginary boogey men on the other, book banning, it's a thankless task. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are leaving because administrators are refusing to discipline children and school systems are refusing to separate out poorly behaving/severely learning disabled children from the general education classroom. This didn't happen when we were children because kids were disciplined and because kids couldn't handle being in a general education classroom were put in separate schools. We need to go back to that model. Sorry, but equity is not working.

While I agree with some of this, most of our SPED kids are not behavior problems. Only a handful are. Many of our behavior problems are non sped students.

But those handful can do a lot of damage all on their own!