How many teachers are leaving your school next year?

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

Majority of teachers are doing some variation of the county materials.

Yeah that was my point. No teachers write lesson plans at this point so the young ones aren’t any better than the old ones. It is all standardized. The PP was just talking smack.

Yes, they may not write out full lesson plans but they have created good lessons that they reuse over the years and will write key words in their lesson plan book to remind them of what they do. The good teachers have solid lesson plans.

For YEARS of experience and teaching.

I tell the new teachers at my school to just do the county lessons and focus on behaviors and surviving the year. Trying to make super detailed lessons for every subject could easily be its own full time job. Pretty much all of that work has to be done outside of school hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

The 25-year-old teacher that I work with download worksheets from the K-5 webpage 20 minutes before the school day begins. Every day.

Sure. Usually the younger teachers are also being evaluated so they are trying to show off for the principal. First 3 years they get evaluated every year.

I’m on a summative (evaluation) year and my principal only came to check me once. I honestly think she just forgot about it.

They are supposed to have one scheduled lesson with a full lesson plans and 1-2 drop ins. Plus a meeting with the evaluator.

Those are options the administrators can use towards evaluation. Data collections may vary.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

You can tell what they are doing based on what the kids are bringing home, what projects they are doing, what they’re saying they do in class daily, and how the tests are (ie. Is there a study guide? Does the test or quiz match the objectives?). You can also glean valuable information from their interactive notebooks. Some years they literally have been empty (bad teacher) and others have been wonderful. Newsletters, emails, etc. it’s very obvious who the good teachers are and who the slackers are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or some secret intuition to figure it out.

No, it isn’t always easy to tell. There were 2 4th grade teachers at my DD’s school. Initially, I wanted the “popular” one for her. This teacher had a wonderfully decorated room with flex seating and a reputation for weekly digests home, with pictures of class activities. It didn’t take me long to realize that was all window dressing. The lessons themselves, while fun for the kids, weren’t really instructive in nature. I slowly realized the other teacher, with the modest classroom and the reputation for being average, was actually doing more intentional work that moved the students along.

As a teacher, I usually catch things like this more quickly. I guess I was caught up in the gossip about the popular teacher, so I didn’t consider the quality of instruction.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

You can tell what they are doing based on what the kids are bringing home, what projects they are doing, what they’re saying they do in class daily, and how the tests are (ie. Is there a study guide? Does the test or quiz match the objectives?). You can also glean valuable information from their interactive notebooks. Some years they literally have been empty (bad teacher) and others have been wonderful. Newsletters, emails, etc. it’s very obvious who the good teachers are and who the slackers are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or some secret intuition to figure it out.

No, it isn’t always easy to tell. There were 2 4th grade teachers at my DD’s school. Initially, I wanted the “popular” one for her. This teacher had a wonderfully decorated room with flex seating and a reputation for weekly digests home, with pictures of class activities. It didn’t take me long to realize that was all window dressing. The lessons themselves, while fun for the kids, weren’t really instructive in nature. I slowly realized the other teacher, with the modest classroom and the reputation for being average, was actually doing more intentional work that moved the students along.

As a teacher, I usually catch things like this more quickly. I guess I was caught up in the gossip about the popular teacher, so I didn’t consider the quality of instruction.

I work on a team of five teachers. There’s a teacher who has 30 years of experience. She’s an excellent teacher, one of the best I’ve ever worked with. Her lessons and material is strong, she pushes the kids, and has high expectations.. Every year there are at least one to two families that convince the principal to Switch them out of her class into the young teachers classroom. The principal does it because she doesn’t really wanna fight with the parents. They have no idea that they are leaving the best teacher in the grade level for one of worst teacher in the grade level.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

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None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

You can tell what they are doing based on what the kids are bringing home, what projects they are doing, what they’re saying they do in class daily, and how the tests are (ie. Is there a study guide? Does the test or quiz match the objectives?). You can also glean valuable information from their interactive notebooks. Some years they literally have been empty (bad teacher) and others have been wonderful. Newsletters, emails, etc. it’s very obvious who the good teachers are and who the slackers are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or some secret intuition to figure it out.

No, it isn’t always easy to tell. There were 2 4th grade teachers at my DD’s school. Initially, I wanted the “popular” one for her. This teacher had a wonderfully decorated room with flex seating and a reputation for weekly digests home, with pictures of class activities. It didn’t take me long to realize that was all window dressing. The lessons themselves, while fun for the kids, weren’t really instructive in nature. I slowly realized the other teacher, with the modest classroom and the reputation for being average, was actually doing more intentional work that moved the students along.

As a teacher, I usually catch things like this more quickly. I guess I was caught up in the gossip about the popular teacher, so I didn’t consider the quality of instruction.

Not in my experience . In both my kids schools (2 different elementary) everything the team sends home is the exact same thing. Doesn’t matter which teacher you get as far as that is concerned.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

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None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

You can tell what they are doing based on what the kids are bringing home, what projects they are doing, what they’re saying they do in class daily, and how the tests are (ie. Is there a study guide? Does the test or quiz match the objectives?). You can also glean valuable information from their interactive notebooks. Some years they literally have been empty (bad teacher) and others have been wonderful. Newsletters, emails, etc. it’s very obvious who the good teachers are and who the slackers are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or some secret intuition to figure it out.

No, it isn’t always easy to tell. There were 2 4th grade teachers at my DD’s school. Initially, I wanted the “popular” one for her. This teacher had a wonderfully decorated room with flex seating and a reputation for weekly digests home, with pictures of class activities. It didn’t take me long to realize that was all window dressing. The lessons themselves, while fun for the kids, weren’t really instructive in nature. I slowly realized the other teacher, with the modest classroom and the reputation for being average, was actually doing more intentional work that moved the students along.

As a teacher, I usually catch things like this more quickly. I guess I was caught up in the gossip about the popular teacher, so I didn’t consider the quality of instruction.

Not in my experience . In both my kids schools (2 different elementary) everything the team sends home is the exact same thing. Doesn’t matter which teacher you get as far as that is concerned.

At my school there is variation with small group instruction but we all do the same whole group lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

I, personally, love the older teachers who have older kids and more experience.

Pros and cons to each.

...literally no one cares what you like or don't like.

No one cares what you like either. Enjoy your new school!

Hi Navy Mom troll

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

The 25-year-old teacher that I work with download worksheets from the K-5 webpage 20 minutes before the school day begins. Every day.

Sure. Usually the younger teachers are also being evaluated so they are trying to show off for the principal. First 3 years they get evaluated every year.

I’m on a summative (evaluation) year and my principal only came to check me once. I honestly think she just forgot about it.

LOL, being on evaluation does not include a worksheet review.

I mean I was only observed once. If your admin isn’t paying attention and a parent doesn’t say anything you could easily get away with doing the minimum. I teach at a hard to staff school so I think my admin just had bigger fish to fry than concern themselves with me.

My admin were so consumed by other craziness going on in the school they forgot I was being evaluated. The evaluation was not completed. Even the not hard to staff schools are afraid of losing teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:When you teach at a school with a revolving door of trainees and long term subs admin does not pay any mind to your average teacher. We had a trainee that you could hear screaming at her kids from down the hall on a daily basis. If kids and families like you and they show decent test data admin gives you a decent evaluation and send you on your way.

That sucks. Luckily we don’t have any teacher trainees at our school and the occasional long term subs we’ve had have actually been pretty good.

For now...

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

Majority of teachers are doing some variation of the county materials.

Yeah that was my point. No teachers write lesson plans at this point so the young ones aren’t any better than the old ones. It is all standardized. The PP was just talking smack.

Yes, they may not write out full lesson plans but they have created good lessons that they reuse over the years and will write key words in their lesson plan book to remind them of what they do. The good teachers have solid lesson plans.

For YEARS of experience and teaching.

I tell the new teachers at my school to just do the county lessons and focus on behaviors and surviving the year. Trying to make super detailed lessons for every subject could easily be its own full time job. Pretty much all of that work has to be done outside of school hours.

this....teachers have to parent all day.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off.

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.

They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this.

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.

How do you know about their lesson plans?

You can tell what they are doing based on what the kids are bringing home, what projects they are doing, what they’re saying they do in class daily, and how the tests are (ie. Is there a study guide? Does the test or quiz match the objectives?). You can also glean valuable information from their interactive notebooks. Some years they literally have been empty (bad teacher) and others have been wonderful. Newsletters, emails, etc. it’s very obvious who the good teachers are and who the slackers are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or some secret intuition to figure it out.

No, it isn’t always easy to tell. There were 2 4th grade teachers at my DD’s school. Initially, I wanted the “popular” one for her. This teacher had a wonderfully decorated room with flex seating and a reputation for weekly digests home, with pictures of class activities. It didn’t take me long to realize that was all window dressing. The lessons themselves, while fun for the kids, weren’t really instructive in nature. I slowly realized the other teacher, with the modest classroom and the reputation for being average, was actually doing more intentional work that moved the students along.

As a teacher, I usually catch things like this more quickly. I guess I was caught up in the gossip about the popular teacher, so I didn’t consider the quality of instruction.

Notice I didn’t mention any of that (how the classroom is decorated or flex seating) in my criteria for good teaching. I stuck to actual activities, tests, and interactive notebooks.

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Anyone applying to work at Glasgow MS?

I didn’t think so. Hope it comes with hazard pay and a signing bonus.

Allow me to warn against working in this hellscape. I put my personal safety and security at risk repeatedly at this school.

Students roam the halls during class time, daily fights in school and on buses, filthy school and bathrooms with students breaking equipment daily, no accountability, no standards.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone applying to work at Glasgow MS?

I didn’t think so. Hope it comes with hazard pay and a signing bonus.

Allow me to warn against working in this hellscape. I put my personal safety and security at risk repeatedly at this school.

Students roam the halls during class time, daily fights in school and on buses, filthy school and bathrooms with students breaking equipment daily, no accountability, no standards.

I know a teacher that was there for about 5 years and just left.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone applying to work at Glasgow MS?

I didn’t think so. Hope it comes with hazard pay and a signing bonus.

Allow me to warn against working in this hellscape. I put my personal safety and security at risk repeatedly at this school.

Students roam the halls during class time, daily fights in school and on buses, filthy school and bathrooms with students breaking equipment daily, no accountability, no standards.

I know a teacher that was there for about 5 years and just left.

It can be so mentally exhausting to work at schools like this. I have always felt bad for the kids because they can’t leave and it’s even more exhausting for them. I am the one who posted about the trainee screaming at her kids and I teach at an ES in the Alexandria area. It’s so hard to staff these schools when you get paid the same to teach at a wealthy school in McLean. Subs don’t pick up jobs at the rougher schools. These schools are scraping the bottom of the barrel just to get someone decent to stay on.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone applying to work at Glasgow MS?

I didn’t think so. Hope it comes with hazard pay and a signing bonus.

Allow me to warn against working in this hellscape. I put my personal safety and security at risk repeatedly at this school.

Students roam the halls during class time, daily fights in school and on buses, filthy school and bathrooms with students breaking equipment daily, no accountability, no standards.

It's time to bring back zero tolerance policies for aggression and threats. The students doing that or roaming the halls should get sent home with a laptop to do Edmentum. Also, administrators need to be taking a more proactive role and that doesn't mean giving the kids chips and lollipops after they walk out of class or scream obscenities at a staff member.