How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

I work in a office, doing things. Lol, do you want my address and boss’s name too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

I work in a office, doing things. Lol, do you want my address and boss’s name too?

You wrote about a bunch of things you could do now that you couldn't when you were a teacher and I was just curious what type of job allows you to do those things now and to what type of job you were able to transition to out of teaching. No need for such a pissy answer. After all, this is a discussion board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

I work in a office, doing things. Lol, do you want my address and boss’s name too?

You wrote about a bunch of things you could do now that you couldn't when you were a teacher and I was just curious what type of job allows you to do those things now and to what type of job you were able to transition to out of teaching. No need for such a pissy answer. After all, this is a discussion board.

Most office tyoe jobs allow for what the PP describes- freedom to use the bathroom whenever you want, lunch breaks longer than 20 minutes, time to post on DCUMs over and over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

Not PP, but I took some time off from teaching and worked an office job at a university. I made more money and had all of the benefits listed above. Being able to come in an hour late to be able to go to a dentist appointment was amazing. So was the ability to go pick up something for lunch if I didn’t pack my own. And I didn’t have to ration my coffee/water consumption. Perhaps the biggest change was that people trusted me to do my job. I didnt feel questioned by multiple stakeholders at every turn. I ended up missing teaching and returning to the classroom, but if the upcoming year isn’t better, I’m going to quit again. I ran the retirement numbers and it isn’t worth it if working conditions don’t improve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

Not PP, but I took some time off from teaching and worked an office job at a university. I made more money and had all of the benefits listed above. Being able to come in an hour late to be able to go to a dentist appointment was amazing. So was the ability to go pick up something for lunch if I didn’t pack my own. And I didn’t have to ration my coffee/water consumption. Perhaps the biggest change was that people trusted me to do my job. I didnt feel questioned by multiple stakeholders at every turn. I ended up missing teaching and returning to the classroom, but if the upcoming year isn’t better, I’m going to quit again. I ran the retirement numbers and it isn’t worth it if working conditions don’t improve.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. Next year is my 30th year and I’ve also looked at the numbers, trying to decide if I’ll stop after this coming year and do something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

Not PP, but I took some time off from teaching and worked an office job at a university. I made more money and had all of the benefits listed above. Being able to come in an hour late to be able to go to a dentist appointment was amazing. So was the ability to go pick up something for lunch if I didn’t pack my own. And I didn’t have to ration my coffee/water consumption. Perhaps the biggest change was that people trusted me to do my job. I didnt feel questioned by multiple stakeholders at every turn. I ended up missing teaching and returning to the classroom, but if the upcoming year isn’t better, I’m going to quit again. I ran the retirement numbers and it isn’t worth it if working conditions don’t improve.

Question for the teachers who are going back next year...do you think/feel the coming year will get better? I took a couple of years off to care for a loved on and I want to go back but I also have a lot of friends who don't feel there will be much change and their stories from this year have me wondering if I should find something else.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. Next year is my 30th year and I’ve also looked at the numbers, trying to decide if I’ll stop after this coming year and do something else.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

It won’t be better. There are clear steps they could take- pay teachers more to create demand and then hire more of them to shrink class sizes but they’d rather hire more people at gatehouse and create additional APs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is little to no recourse for it, and as someone who is very well educated and accustomed to working with other well educated people, I was surprised at how discourteous, disrespectful, and unprofessional those in the school community can be.

OMG so much this. We work with a lot of rude, stupid people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is little to no recourse for it, and as someone who is very well educated and accustomed to working with other well educated people, I was surprised at how discourteous, disrespectful, and unprofessional those in the school community can be.

OMG so much this. We work with a lot of rude, stupid people.

YES the rudeness!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

It won’t be better. There are clear steps they could take- pay teachers more to create demand and then hire more of them to shrink class sizes but they’d rather hire more people at gatehouse and create additional APs.

Teachers definitely deserve more pay, but hiring more of them will not solve the issue of class size, unless there’s more classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

It won’t be better. There are clear steps they could take- pay teachers more to create demand and then hire more of them to shrink class sizes but they’d rather hire more people at gatehouse and create additional APs.

Teachers definitely deserve more pay, but hiring more of them will not solve the issue of class size, unless there’s more classrooms.

I think the issue of class size inequity is the problem. At my school next year we are expected to have 28 kids per class, while other grades will have 20. The staffing ratio the county puts through should be for grade not 1-6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

It won’t be better. There are clear steps they could take- pay teachers more to create demand and then hire more of them to shrink class sizes but they’d rather hire more people at gatehouse and create additional APs.

Teachers definitely deserve more pay, but hiring more of them will not solve the issue of class size, unless there’s more classrooms.

True. We have an entire grade level plus in trailers at our ES. I don’t know that there are that many applicants even if schools could take on additional staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think things will be better. There will be too much. To do and not enough time. Admin will continue to expect more and the stress of trying to do it all and being dinged when you can’t will burn us out.

It won’t be better. There are clear steps they could take- pay teachers more to create demand and then hire more of them to shrink class sizes but they’d rather hire more people at gatehouse and create additional APs.

Teachers definitely deserve more pay, but hiring more of them will not solve the issue of class size, unless there’s more classrooms.

My school has plenty classrooms but at least 3 are completely wasted. One was given to the instructional coaches as an office/CT meeting space and 2 were given to SACC. I know SACC is important and all but these rooms sit basically empty during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to hear from former teachers if there new jobs/careers suck as much as teaching? All jobs are hard.

I can go to the bathroom when I need to, not when I can find someone to watch the room. If I make a doctors appointment, I can just…go. My lunch break is an actual lunch break and—god forbid—nobody cares if I sometimes dare to take longer than 25 minutes. There’s no moratorium on taking personal days on Friday.

Yeah, I’m never going back.

What job do you do now?

Not PP, but I took some time off from teaching and worked an office job at a university. I made more money and had all of the benefits listed above. Being able to come in an hour late to be able to go to a dentist appointment was amazing. So was the ability to go pick up something for lunch if I didn’t pack my own. And I didn’t have to ration my coffee/water consumption. Perhaps the biggest change was that people trusted me to do my job. I didnt feel questioned by multiple stakeholders at every turn. I ended up missing teaching and returning to the classroom, but if the upcoming year isn’t better, I’m going to quit again. I ran the retirement numbers and it isn’t worth it if working conditions don’t improve.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. Next year is my 30th year and I’ve also looked at the numbers, trying to decide if I’ll stop after this coming year and do something else.

I'm on year 20. I'm going to leave in 5 years then go do something else. This'll get my kids through college, the house paid off and then I can afford a smaller pay check. I should go 15 more years. From what I see, things only get worse in education. So, 5 more years and I'm out