Vacancies

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Anonymous wrote:The school board separations report always tells an interesting story. 461 teachers quit in July. Mind you, this doesn’t include the 800 teachers who left FCPS on good terms in June.
Last July only about 170 teachers quit, what changed? This explains the large class sizes, they probably weren’t prepared for this.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/D87LKD56E95B/$file/Monthly%20Separation%20Report%20July%201%2C%202024%20to%20July%2031%2C%202024.pdf

WOW. I really wonder who will want to teach by the time I have grandchildren.

I imagine they will be taught by AI.

Online teachers and the kids will be just be monitored in a school building

Yep. A lot of my job now is monitoring. I’m an extremely overqualified babysitter. It’s really rough for those of us who love our subject area.

This is why Lexia/ST Math are so big right now and being pushed so hard. I don’t think they are bad tools, but it’s definitely testing the water of how much can be taken out of the teachers hands. Same with the Basals, they don’t need some unlicensed communications major figuring out how to teach phonics on the fly.

really sad because good teachers are priceless....but honestly even the best teachers are struggling in the chaos of education today~off the chart behaviors, large class sizes, and a true lack of support and time to actually teach.

Speak for yourself! I have been teaching primary for 20+ years. The new curriculum is a lot to learn, but in terms of my principal and my students’ families, I have never felt more supported in my career. If you are a struggling teacher, I encourage you to do some research on schools where teachers feel valued and supported. They still exist!

How would you suggest people do this? I taught for 30 years in FCPS and left a few years earlier than planned due to reasons mentioned in this thread. I don’t think it’s very easy to “research schools where teachers feel valued…”.

At which school do you work?

NP, The only way to research that is to talk to teachers from every school to see if they “feel valued”. It’s not like there’s a spreadsheet out there that we can all look at.

Even if there was some of those things change with new administration or turnover in staff.

Exactly. It’s not realistic.

False. There’s an active FCPS FB page where you can solicit opinions and then dig deeper for schools that are in your vicinity. It would take some time, but hard to argue it’s not worth it. Most staff are happy to have private conversations about how supportive or terrible their administrations are.

And risk getting in trouble if they badmouth their admin online? Highly doubtful.

These conversations happen all the time. Scroll the feed during the transfer window. You’re missing out.

I’m on this Facebook page, it’s not anonymous when you respond to a post. Teachers are not bad mouthing their schools on this page.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

+1 million%

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

+1 million%

I don't even know if + 1 million covers it. The lies and stretching of the truth is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

Put their hands on their hips and ask what you want them to do about it....is that correct answer? Nah that won't say that but they will do it.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

Put their hands on their hips and ask what you want them to do about it....is that correct answer? Nah that won't say that but they will do it.

^they not that

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

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I interviewed for a teacher trainee position and the principal assured me the kids in the class to which I would be assigned were "lovely!" and "delightful!" Some of them were - but most were horribly behaved and completely disrespectful. After the first week, I spoke with the principal again and mentioned this and she pretended she had no idea what I was talking about. No doubt, the teacher before me had left due to this awful behavior and zero help from admin. Which is exactly what I wound up doing a few months later.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

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I interviewed for a teacher trainee position and the principal assured me the kids in the class to which I would be assigned were "lovely!" and "delightful!" Some of them were - but most were horribly behaved and completely disrespectful. After the first week, I spoke with the principal again and mentioned this and she pretended she had no idea what I was talking about. No doubt, the teacher before me had left due to this awful behavior and zero help from admin. Which is exactly what I wound up doing a few months later.

I left after 3 months a few years back, too many disrespectful (and lazy) kids in one class.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

+1
I interviewed for a teacher trainee position and the principal assured me the kids in the class to which I would be assigned were "lovely!" and "delightful!" Some of them were - but most were horribly behaved and completely disrespectful. After the first week, I spoke with the principal again and mentioned this and she pretended she had no idea what I was talking about. No doubt, the teacher before me had left due to this awful behavior and zero help from admin. Which is exactly what I wound up doing a few months later.

I left after 3 months a few years back, too many disrespectful (and lazy) kids in one class.

For me it wasn't the kids as much as the adults. I was told I was a great fit and the school was like a family to each other-"so supportive" . It was SPED and the worst year I had in education-zero support. I finished the year but I should have left mid year. Three other new SPED teachers left that year from this very "supportive school". I have teacher friends who are actively looking for new jobs. Sadly the shortage will get worse.

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Anonymous wrote:When a teacher is interviewing for a job, I would think they would ask how the administration would support them if they were kids with extreme behavior challenges. For instance, if a kid is cursing at the teacher or a kid is tearing up the classroom, what would admin do to help?

You think admin doesn’t lie or stretch the truth to hire someone? They will say whatever they need to to get you in a classroom.

+1
I interviewed for a teacher trainee position and the principal assured me the kids in the class to which I would be assigned were "lovely!" and "delightful!" Some of them were - but most were horribly behaved and completely disrespectful. After the first week, I spoke with the principal again and mentioned this and she pretended she had no idea what I was talking about. No doubt, the teacher before me had left due to this awful behavior and zero help from admin. Which is exactly what I wound up doing a few months later.

I left after 3 months a few years back, too many disrespectful (and lazy) kids in one class.

For me it wasn't the kids as much as the adults. I was told I was a great fit and the school was like a family to each other-"so supportive" . It was SPED and the worst year I had in education-zero support. I finished the year but I should have left mid year. Three other new SPED teachers left that year from this very "supportive school". I have teacher friends who are actively looking for new jobs. Sadly the shortage will get worse.

What did they do?

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They should hire sons and daughters of illegal immigrant organized crime families. That way they have backup if kids are abusive. They could use strict discipline in the class and have the family straighten out whoever isn’t with the program after school. Since they are illegal the school board will ignore any fatal consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:The school board separations report always tells an interesting story. 461 teachers quit in July. Mind you, this doesn’t include the 800 teachers who left FCPS on good terms in June.
Last July only about 170 teachers quit, what changed? This explains the large class sizes, they probably weren’t prepared for this.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/D87LKD56E95B/$file/Monthly%20Separation%20Report%20July%201%2C%202024%20to%20July%2031%2C%202024.pdf

WOW. I really wonder who will want to teach by the time I have grandchildren.

I imagine they will be taught by AI.

Online teachers and the kids will be just be monitored in a school building

Yep. A lot of my job now is monitoring. I’m an extremely overqualified babysitter. It’s really rough for those of us who love our subject area.

This is why Lexia/ST Math are so big right now and being pushed so hard. I don’t think they are bad tools, but it’s definitely testing the water of how much can be taken out of the teachers hands. Same with the Basals, they don’t need some unlicensed communications major figuring out how to teach phonics on the fly.

really sad because good teachers are priceless....but honestly even the best teachers are struggling in the chaos of education today~off the chart behaviors, large class sizes, and a true lack of support and time to actually teach.

Speak for yourself! I have been teaching primary for 20+ years. The new curriculum is a lot to learn, but in terms of my principal and my students’ families, I have never felt more supported in my career. If you are a struggling teacher, I encourage you to do some research on schools where teachers feel valued and supported. They still exist!

How would you suggest people do this? I taught for 30 years in FCPS and left a few years earlier than planned due to reasons mentioned in this thread. I don’t think it’s very easy to “research schools where teachers feel valued…”.

At which school do you work?

NP, The only way to research that is to talk to teachers from every school to see if they “feel valued”. It’s not like there’s a spreadsheet out there that we can all look at.

Even if there was some of those things change with new administration or turnover in staff.

Exactly. It’s not realistic.

False. There’s an active FCPS FB page where you can solicit opinions and then dig deeper for schools that are in your vicinity. It would take some time, but hard to argue it’s not worth it. Most staff are happy to have private conversations about how supportive or terrible their administrations are.

And risk getting in trouble if they badmouth their admin online? Highly doubtful.

These conversations happen all the time. Scroll the feed during the transfer window. You’re missing out.

I’m on this Facebook page, it’s not anonymous when you respond to a post. Teachers are not bad mouthing their schools on this page.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:There are a ton of FCPS vacancies currently. Any idea how many they will fill over the summer? Do they aggressively try to fill them? What happens if they don't?

Still a lot of vacancies up.....

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Anonymous wrote:There are a ton of FCPS vacancies currently. Any idea how many they will fill over the summer? Do they aggressively try to fill them? What happens if they don't?

Still a lot of vacancies up.....

So many IA's and SPED teacher positions not filled.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a ton of FCPS vacancies currently. Any idea how many they will fill over the summer? Do they aggressively try to fill them? What happens if they don't?

Still a lot of vacancies up.....

So many IA's and SPED teacher positions not filled.

Why isn't Gatehouse sending people to fill some of the more critical roles? Oh right, probably because they just sit there and cross their arms and do nothing. Bunch of losers, they are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a ton of FCPS vacancies currently. Any idea how many they will fill over the summer? Do they aggressively try to fill them? What happens if they don't?

Still a lot of vacancies up.....

So many IA's and SPED teacher positions not filled.

Why isn't Gatehouse sending people to fill some of the more critical roles? Oh right, probably because they just sit there and cross their arms and do nothing. Bunch of losers, they are.

I wonder how some schools SPED departments are even functioning? These truly are critical positions-they are probably taking advantage of the IA's they have....who will then up and leave next year. It's a bad cycle.