Teacher retention rate hits 90% benchmark

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have to ask:

- are you Karl Frisch?

Since there has not been a refutation, it stands to reason the OP of this thread is in fact, Karl Frisch.

Please grow up.

DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?

Sounds like homeschooling is right for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any coming back from the way kids are being raised. I think many parents just don't want to do the work associated with parenting so they use screens to deal with the unpleasantness of childhood. I've never had so many kids who can't really 1) make sustained eye contact 2) carry on a simple back and forth conversation 3) read body language 4) just sit and do nothing for a few minutes.

+1. The lack of social skills, frustration tolerance and inability to self regulate is very concerning. It's happening across all grade levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Reid come out and say the foreign teacher program had problems because a lot of the candidates misrepresented their English abilities? They have to be very careful what countries they hire from and even then, there are still going to be people who aren’t completely fluent in English even though they say they are.

They should be able to vet for this, especially with only 100-130 foreign teachers. Unless they are eschewing test scores, Zoom interviews, etc and going with a "holistic" approach.

I know one of the moms whose child's school year beginning was just about wasted in this classroom. She said FCPS hires a middleman company to hire foreign teachers and everything that goes wrong is blamed on that organization. I'd love that money to be used with accountability next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess….still a lot of SPED vacancies and long term subs in buildings and teacher trainees that are here to stay because FCPS will keep them over kicking them out because they aren’t getting license.

Yeah this post is not the positivity you think it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Dr Reid....is this you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take out the teacher trainees and teachers from abroad and let’s see the actual numbers.

This.....FCPS is all about hiding and making things look the way they want. How about we start treating teachers right and paying more-I know teachers who have vowed to work to contract hours....spoiler if every teacher did this a lot of things would not get done but the point would be made loud and clear!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

This is FCPS propaganda. They revise the data to show the numbers they want to show. Behaviors are still a problem and retention is still a concern.

+1

I know of schools that lost 2+ teachers in a few grades.

Our school only lost two teachers last year - one got pregnant, the other had a mental health breakdown.

That's nice but not the norm everywhere in the county...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?

Sounds like homeschooling is right for you.

No thanks I pay for the public services same as anyone else— but I’m glad we can stop having threads about how fragile teachers are and how ready to abandon their jobs at a hint of adversity. Let’s start bringing the highway department a week of breakfasts and give the sanitation workers early days off for training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?

Sounds like homeschooling is right for you.

No thanks I pay for the public services same as anyone else— but I’m glad we can stop having threads about how fragile teachers are and how ready to abandon their jobs at a hint of adversity. Let’s start bringing the highway department a week of breakfasts and give the sanitation workers early days off for training.

I’m sorry you aren’t appreciated at your job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any coming back from the way kids are being raised. I think many parents just don't want to do the work associated with parenting so they use screens to deal with the unpleasantness of childhood. I've never had so many kids who can't really 1) make sustained eye contact 2) carry on a simple back and forth conversation 3) read body language 4) just sit and do nothing for a few minutes.

My kids switched from FCPS to private (not one of the Big 3 or whatever number you want to pick, though) this year and I'd say you can still see a bit of this there, even at a place that selects its students and has generally really involved parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take out the teacher trainees and teachers from abroad and let’s see the actual numbers.

+1 Also, the SpEd teachers.
It's not even mid-year, I'd like to see the numbers in July and August. The quoted numbers likely are from Sept-Oct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?

Sounds like homeschooling is right for you.

No thanks I pay for the public services same as anyone else— but I’m glad we can stop having threads about how fragile teachers are and how ready to abandon their jobs at a hint of adversity. Let’s start bringing the highway department a week of breakfasts and give the sanitation workers early days off for training.

I’m sorry you aren’t appreciated at your job.

I am, thanks for asking. But no one at my job thinks bringing me breakfast is the magic bullet to keeping me in the workplace, and I don’t respond to any criticism of my profession by hyperventilating that this is why people will leave the profession…

[Anonymous]

This is a complete fabrication. Smoke and mirrors. Someone submit a foia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one ever posts positive news here. FCPS teachers are staying. Looks like Reid is doing something right. The article also talks about the foreign teachers being hired. I do not have experience with any of these, but I imagine it must be horrible for a teacher to come from a nation where teachers are respected, to one with such awful parents and their entitled, bratty students. Also the lack of discipline. I'm curious about the retention rate for the foreign teachers.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/12/fairfax-co-schools-reaches-teacher-retention-benchmark-for-1st-time-in-4-years/

Great so we can stop hearing about how miserable their working conditions are and opt out of whatever horror the PTA has in store for appreciation week? Problem solved?

Sounds like homeschooling is right for you.

No thanks I pay for the public services same as anyone else— but I’m glad we can stop having threads about how fragile teachers are and how ready to abandon their jobs at a hint of adversity. Let’s start bringing the highway department a week of breakfasts and give the sanitation workers early days off for training.

I’m sorry you aren’t appreciated at your job.

I am, thanks for asking. But no one at my job thinks bringing me breakfast is the magic bullet to keeping me in the workplace, and I don’t respond to any criticism of my profession by hyperventilating that this is why people will leave the profession…

People think providing a breakfast retains school staff?