What can be done for FCPS teacher BURNOUT right now?

[Anonymous]

This makes me afraid and very sad/unsettled. No one should be feeling this kind of useless pressure in a job. Teachers should have the freedom to teach. Between this and apparently learning that our kids won't have textbooks when they get to fcps, I'm really starting to consider private school. All we can afford is parochial, but my kid might at least get a textbook and a teacher who isn't being henpecked by a zillions different meetings/rules/regs/whatever. I just don't know.

[Anonymous]

I'm a public school teacher who sends my kids to Catholic school. The teaching is more traditional but at least it is thorough and there aren't gaps in their education. They aren't trying to put the cart before the horse like in public school. You can't have higher order thinking until you have mastered the basics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me afraid and very sad/unsettled. No one should be feeling this kind of useless pressure in a job. Teachers should have the freedom to teach. Between this and apparently learning that our kids won't have textbooks when they get to fcps, I'm really starting to consider private school. All we can afford is parochial, but my kid might at least get a textbook and a teacher who isn't being henpecked by a zillions different meetings/rules/regs/whatever. I just don't know.

Be prepared to be bombarded by parents, teachers, and principals who have bought into the anti Bill Gates/ pro Alfie Kohn school model of no testing, no homework, no workbook/worksheet/textbook, and no direct teaching in conjunction with SOL testing. Public school these days is a combination of the extremes of both these men's ideas with no subject really working well together.

[Anonymous]

Over the next week, I need to give multiple assessments to my students. Next month, there is WIDA and iReady. When will teachers be allowed to teach the content?

[Anonymous]

Our iReady MOY is right now. Why? Well, in order to fit in PARCC, they have to shift the middle of the year test to now with the EOY iReady to March. So many tests that they are almost constant throughout the year. I feel terrible for our testing coordinator trying to schedule all of this.

[Anonymous]

Illegals and anchor babies have stressed the system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our iReady MOY is right now. Why? Well, in order to fit in PARCC, they have to shift the middle of the year test to now with the EOY iReady to March. So many tests that they are almost constant throughout the year. I feel terrible for our testing coordinator trying to schedule all of this.

What is PARCC? Is that given in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our iReady MOY is right now. Why? Well, in order to fit in PARCC, they have to shift the middle of the year test to now with the EOY iReady to March. So many tests that they are almost constant throughout the year. I feel terrible for our testing coordinator trying to schedule all of this.

What is PARCC? Is that given in FCPS?

It is a common core test that is not given in fcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Illegals and anchor babies have stressed the system

And their parents are not interested in the schools beyond what’s in it for them. And it’s sad, because the legal aliens/citizens and their children are facing discrimination because of it. I’d know, my friends and family are experiencing it.

[Anonymous]

The testing frenzy seems to slow in middle school at least in honors/AAP, no?