Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

I didn't receive more grades from my teachers than my kids do. And my teachers definitely didn't have to post in advance all the upcoming quizzes, tests, projects etc. into Schoology and SIS and then data input the grades, figure in timing for retakes and late submissions according to school policies. They just put marks on a paper--that they often graded while we were doing work in class--and wrote it in a book that they then added up 4 times a year for quarter reports. They didn't have parents and students checking SIS for updates every day and then emailing in about it. (I'm not a teacher--I'm just seeing what they have to do as a parent and it seems mind-numbingly too much).

This is probably a stupid question but can a teacher just say no to any of this? Like, not respond to parent emails, not post grades (just keep track at school and a student can check in if they want), etc? Seems like since they are so desperate for teachers, a teacher should be able to just say “no I don’t think I will be doing that.”

Well the FCPS policies are that teachers should respond to parent emails in 24 hours , provide updates in and grades in x amount of time, post everything online etc. But I doubt anyone is getting fired in a teacher shortage for not doing those things. This might be the time for teachers to decide what they are able to do that supports student learning and their own sanity and what they are not able to--maybe collectively push back on the ever expanding demands.

I usually get back to a parent within 24 hours unless it’s a weekend, but is that an actual FCPS policy? Which policy number?

FCPS administrators pick and choose the policies they themselves follow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Ok I'll say it....teachers didn't have all the extra demands from the count and ridiculous parent demands we have now. When kids were sent to the office they were dealt with and principals weren't afraid of giving consequences. Parents supported teachers and admin not question there every movement. Parents be parents tell your kids no-tell them when their behavior is not ok. I spend 85% of my day dealing with behaviors. ENOUGH! And I'm done with the do nothings in Gatehouse-we have enough of them doing nothing but creating more for teachers to do-teachers who are not in quiet office. You know what we don't have time to do TEACH-and it's not just the extras from the county it's because parents are not parenting. We shouldn't be spending more than half our day talking to your children about their behavior. For those parents who parent-thank you we see you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Ok I'll say it....teachers didn't have all the extra demands from the count and ridiculous parent demands we have now. When kids were sent to the office they were dealt with and principals weren't afraid of giving consequences. Parents supported teachers and admin not question there every movement. Parents be parents tell your kids no-tell them when their behavior is not ok. I spend 85% of my day dealing with behaviors. ENOUGH! And I'm done with the do nothings in Gatehouse-we have enough of them doing nothing but creating more for teachers to do-teachers who are not in quiet office. You know what we don't have time to do TEACH-and it's not just the extras from the county it's because parents are not parenting. We shouldn't be spending more than half our day talking to your children about their behavior. For those parents who parent-thank you we see you.

Are you actually a teacher? You don't really sound like one to me. You sound like you're a person pretending to be a teacher to make your talking points. If you are a teacher, I apologize, but this site is full of people pretending to be all sorts of things for odd purposes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Sums up my day perfectly!

Look, I am sympathetic. I am. But the result is not to NOT grade work or provide appropriate feedback to students. You're not doing your job in that instance and there is nothing you will say to change my mind on that.

You are correct, the answer is to quit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

I didn't receive more grades from my teachers than my kids do. And my teachers definitely didn't have to post in advance all the upcoming quizzes, tests, projects etc. into Schoology and SIS and then data input the grades, figure in timing for retakes and late submissions according to school policies. They just put marks on a paper--that they often graded while we were doing work in class--and wrote it in a book that they then added up 4 times a year for quarter reports. They didn't have parents and students checking SIS for updates every day and then emailing in about it. (I'm not a teacher--I'm just seeing what they have to do as a parent and it seems mind-numbingly too much).

This is probably a stupid question but can a teacher just say no to any of this? Like, not respond to parent emails, not post grades (just keep track at school and a student can check in if they want), etc? Seems like since they are so desperate for teachers, a teacher should be able to just say “no I don’t think I will be doing that.”

Well the FCPS policies are that teachers should respond to parent emails in 24 hours , provide updates in and grades in x amount of time, post everything online etc. But I doubt anyone is getting fired in a teacher shortage for not doing those things. This might be the time for teachers to decide what they are able to do that supports student learning and their own sanity and what they are not able to--maybe collectively push back on the ever expanding demands.

I usually get back to a parent within 24 hours unless it’s a weekend, but is that an actual FCPS policy? Which policy number?

FCPS administrators pick and choose the policies they themselves follow.

Many posters on DCUM think regulations, policies, and guidelines are all the same.

[Anonymous]

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Are you relying on memory of your childhood? Sure, we got lots of papers back with teachers marks, but that didn’t mean they went in the grade book.

When I started teaching ES 22 years ago I was to get at least 10 grades per content area each quarter. Now with the formative and summarize requirements I take dozens upon dozens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Ok I'll say it....teachers didn't have all the extra demands from the count and ridiculous parent demands we have now. When kids were sent to the office they were dealt with and principals weren't afraid of giving consequences. Parents supported teachers and admin not question there every movement. Parents be parents tell your kids no-tell them when their behavior is not ok. I spend 85% of my day dealing with behaviors. ENOUGH! And I'm done with the do nothings in Gatehouse-we have enough of them doing nothing but creating more for teachers to do-teachers who are not in quiet office. You know what we don't have time to do TEACH-and it's not just the extras from the county it's because parents are not parenting. We shouldn't be spending more than half our day talking to your children about their behavior. For those parents who parent-thank you we see you.

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I was subbing the other day in a specials class and the teacher brought her class in. She looked absolutely haggard, wiped out, and exhausted as she handed me a list of her "behavioral" problems and asked me to score them while they were with me. I had them for half an hour and can't even imagine what her days are like with these kids. There couldn't possibly be any learning going on in that classroom - and not because of her. These kids need to be removed and taught separately. It is beyond unfair to pile them into a mainstream class and expect that teacher to deal with them all day, every day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Ok I'll say it....teachers didn't have all the extra demands from the count and ridiculous parent demands we have now. When kids were sent to the office they were dealt with and principals weren't afraid of giving consequences. Parents supported teachers and admin not question there every movement. Parents be parents tell your kids no-tell them when their behavior is not ok. I spend 85% of my day dealing with behaviors. ENOUGH! And I'm done with the do nothings in Gatehouse-we have enough of them doing nothing but creating more for teachers to do-teachers who are not in quiet office. You know what we don't have time to do TEACH-and it's not just the extras from the county it's because parents are not parenting. We shouldn't be spending more than half our day talking to your children about their behavior. For those parents who parent-thank you we see you.

Are you actually a teacher? You don't really sound like one to me. You sound like you're a person pretending to be a teacher to make your talking points. If you are a teacher, I apologize, but this site is full of people pretending to be all sorts of things for odd purposes.

The PP most definitely sounds like a teacher. That you don't recognize what she's saying kind of makes it seem like it's you who's not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

The question: “I am optimistic about the future” didn’t fare so well.

I'm not a teacher, but I think we need to rethink how education is structured centered around what will help teachers thrive. Students will be more likely to thrive with teachers that do. Any demands on teachers--for supporting students, for admin, for adjusting to changing needs--need to be considered in the context of how can that be achieved while not undermining the fundamental need for teachers to thrive. There may be some unmet needs that it is the responsibility of society as a whole to figure out how to fund and meet those needs, not unfunded mandates placed upon schools.

US Society as a whole is a failure. Schools are supposed to educate, but we also have to feed, clothe and parent students; the minute we’re not available to do those things (see: April 2020 onward) it’s OUR fault, but the minute we suggest shifting that burden to another part of the societal safety net, the same people who screamed about closing school buildings, scream that we can’t spend the money on that type of thing.

Until teachers can get back to being teachers and not substitute parents things are just going to get worse.

It's not just parenting issues, but also ever expanding content, more access to teachers via technology from students and parents, and more expectations for teachers to post everything online/grade quickly, more requirements to provide accommodations for students with a range of learning needs etc. Each one of these things might seem reasonable but on whole the demands are unsustainable. Before new legislation is passed requiring anything or an admin creates a policy, a review of the new addition in light of a teacher's full job needs to considered--if we add this new thing, what gets taken away. If we require this, when does the time to do it during contracted hours occur?

This is getting ridiculous. Teachers used to grade things all the time. You can say that things are getting harder, but we all know that we received more grades from our teachers than our kids do.

Ok I'll say it....teachers didn't have all the extra demands from the count and ridiculous parent demands we have now. When kids were sent to the office they were dealt with and principals weren't afraid of giving consequences. Parents supported teachers and admin not question there every movement. Parents be parents tell your kids no-tell them when their behavior is not ok. I spend 85% of my day dealing with behaviors. ENOUGH! And I'm done with the do nothings in Gatehouse-we have enough of them doing nothing but creating more for teachers to do-teachers who are not in quiet office. You know what we don't have time to do TEACH-and it's not just the extras from the county it's because parents are not parenting. We shouldn't be spending more than half our day talking to your children about their behavior. For those parents who parent-thank you we see you.

Are you actually a teacher? You don't really sound like one to me. You sound like you're a person pretending to be a teacher to make your talking points. If you are a teacher, I apologize, but this site is full of people pretending to be all sorts of things for odd purposes.

The PP most definitely sounds like a teacher. That you don't recognize what she's saying kind of makes it seem like it's you who's not a teacher.

It's not that some of the points don't make sense, it's just something off in the writing. Gut reaction. I said I might be wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Sums up my day perfectly!

Look, I am sympathetic. I am. But the result is not to NOT grade work or provide appropriate feedback to students. You're not doing your job in that instance and there is nothing you will say to change my mind on that.

Maybe if you did your job as a parent and I didn’t have to be a full-in parent to 120+ students, I’d have more time to hold your hand as well.

But you are not, so I don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Sums up my day perfectly!

Look, I am sympathetic. I am. But the result is not to NOT grade work or provide appropriate feedback to students. You're not doing your job in that instance and there is nothing you will say to change my mind on that.

Maybe if you did your job as a parent and I didn’t have to be a full-in parent to 120+ students, I’d have more time to hold your hand as well.

But you are not, so I don’t.

DP. I get that teachers are overworked and overwhelmed with too many responsibilities and too many behaviors. But attacking parents who ask for their kids to get feedback on assignments is off base.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Sums up my day perfectly!

Look, I am sympathetic. I am. But the result is not to NOT grade work or provide appropriate feedback to students. You're not doing your job in that instance and there is nothing you will say to change my mind on that.

Maybe if you did your job as a parent and I didn’t have to be a full-in parent to 120+ students, I’d have more time to hold your hand as well.

But you are not, so I don’t.

DP. I get that teachers are overworked and overwhelmed with too many responsibilities and too many behaviors. But attacking parents who ask for their kids to get feedback on assignments is off base.

Its also off base to demand things when you aren’t their boss and don’t really understand the job requirements.

[Anonymous]

Okay this is one of those obnoxious “back in my day posts,” but…

I think it’s crucial to know how you did on an assignment/quiz/test sooner rather than later so you can course correct if need be. But when I was in high school and I wanted to know my grade on something I just went and asked the teacher after class. In person. Why do parents need to know at all? Why do kids need to see them online? I did graduate in 2001 but this is all very confusing To me.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS just released the results from the employee engagement survey, lol. One question was a type in answer, "describe your job in 1 word". The top 4 results were:

Overwhelmed
Stressed
Exhausted
Frustrated

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Sums up my day perfectly!

Look, I am sympathetic. I am. But the result is not to NOT grade work or provide appropriate feedback to students. You're not doing your job in that instance and there is nothing you will say to change my mind on that.

Maybe if you did your job as a parent and I didn’t have to be a full-in parent to 120+ students, I’d have more time to hold your hand as well.

But you are not, so I don’t.

DP. I get that teachers are overworked and overwhelmed with too many responsibilities and too many behaviors. But attacking parents who ask for their kids to get feedback on assignments is off base.

Its also off base to demand things when you aren’t their boss and don’t really understand the job requirements.

DP, but you can't have it both ways. If it's ultimately parents' responsibility to educate their kids and make sure that they are learning what is being taught at school, parents need access to timely information about how their kids are doing. If timely communication isn't possible, then kids' failures are the teachers' responsibility. That's the source of the conflict. Parents can't control teacher working conditions. If you tell them that they have no right to timely information about what is going on in school, which is the purpose of quizzes and tests, then it's no wonder there is a lack of trust. You can't teach kids that grades and timely completion of work matter if the adults in their lives aren't held to the same standards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is trying to get ahead of what they know is coming. My student teacher got a job offer their second day of the student teaching arrangement. No interview, no recommendation, no sample lesson. You signed up to student teach for FCPS? You’re hired for fall.

The quality of these hires is going to be….iffy…in my opinion. I hope I’m wrong and desire carries them through the first few years.

Only two out of five of our student teachers even finished the school year last year.

Wait, what? They dropped out? And didn't finish their teaching degree?

They dropped out of student teaching. I assume they switched their major to something else.

HAHAHA. Great move kid. Whoever was smart enough to say "eff this!" to becoming a teacher is exactly the kind of person who should be a teaching our kids! Probably was good enough at math to realize what a bad life decision education is.

In Virginia students major in their content area (math, biology, history, english, art) etc. and teaching licensure is an 'add on' process. So it's not that hard to switch away from education if it doesn't suit you.

I love DCUM, constantly insulting even when they don’t have a fraction of accurate knowledge on the process.

All the SAHPs and WFH Karens think they have all the answers when they rarely have any.

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