One in Five Teachers Say They Won’t Return to School in the Fall

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Anonymous wrote:Friendly reminder that teachers also pay taxes! You’re not special and we don’t owe you babysitting. Our job is to educate, not to free up YOUR time.

NP here. Correct. And if you are still receive your salary during the pandemic, you are still expected to educate during the pandemic. Not just send video links and links to quizizz.

Dont worry. PWCS included a furlough clause in the teacher contracts saying if this happens again, teachers may be furloughed and/or if their workload decreases, so will their pay.

LoL let’s see how many return. Fck pwcs

The contract was given to us three days before we had to sign and return it. I doubt too many teachers decided to make a split second decision not to return based on a furlough clause in their contract.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friendly reminder that teachers also pay taxes! You’re not special and we don’t owe you babysitting. Our job is to educate, not to free up YOUR time.

NP here. Correct. And if you are still receive your salary during the pandemic, you are still expected to educate during the pandemic. Not just send video links and links to quizizz.

Dont worry. PWCS included a furlough clause in the teacher contracts saying if this happens again, teachers may be furloughed and/or if their workload decreases, so will their pay.

LoL let’s see how many return. Fck pwcs

Seriously? Why should teachers be immune to furloughs if their workload is decreasing?

DP. They will leave and not return. Maybe the young teachers in the first couple years with no kids or mortgages will stay. Maybe people already eligible for retirement. But the majority of experienced teachers can’t afford to be furloughed. They will leave for states with lower COL and no furlough clause in the contract.

Um no. Most teachers have husbands with jobs in the area, where they can’t just pick up and move somewhere else. Not to mention most teachers have kids as well. You really think the majority of teachers are simply going to upend their family’s lives and move to another state that doesn’t have a furlough clause in the contract?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20% of teachers quit in the first five years I think. The kids are great even the so called bad ones (once they figure out you are on their side), everything else about the job is horrid.

Says someone who doesn’t teach middle school...

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If 20% of teachers leave they are entitled to make that choice. Life will go on. Everybody is replaceable.

I would rather my kids sit in class waiting for FCPS to find even an unqualified replacement than have them spend that same time at home doing DL. At least they will get all the other benefits of being in school.

I agree with you in theory. Do you really think we could make up 20% by the time we find out there is a deficit in the teacher pool? I honestly don’t know. When are contracts signed? Four weeks before school starts? If we don’t get enough, then the ratio of students per teacher goes up. And that won’t work if we’re required to maintain 6ft separation in classroom desk setups.

In pwcs we received our contracts last week. We had three days to sign and return them - and there was a new furlough clause.

[Anonymous]

Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

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PWCS and LCPS contracts with COVID clause stating they can (and will be) furloughed when and if necessary like disposable trash.

no step salary increase yet superintendents raking in over $300k, PLUS car allowance, PLUS bonuses to the tune of 20k PLUS deferred retirement salary/bonus whatever tf you wanna call thAt BS.

Not sure about FCPS so someone else can pitch in on those sleazy phuckers.

I’ve already counted twenty something posts about teAchers quitting/resigning even way before sh¡t settles and school stArts in August.

I don’t know bout u All but you’re seriously delusional if you think that:

A) you have a moral superiority to demand teachers surrender their health so Little Johnnie or Little Sarah goes to school because you can’t hAndle being a parent. You should’ve swallowed then.

B) we are actually going back to live instruction more than 2 days. (I’m a big believer we’ll go to full DL right after thanksgiving)

C) teachers aren’t quitting because somehow you believe they ‘need’ the job.

PLAN AHEAD. there will be no HS sports. teacher shortages are going to wreak havoc in the already crappy plans being sketched by these overpaid supersh¡tendents.

Like fr y’all ain’t even ready for what’s coming.

[Anonymous]

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Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

[Anonymous]

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Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

Jealousy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

Feds have federal holidays off. Should we emphasize that every time a fed has a complaint about their job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

I think it is because a lot of people tend to look so down on the teaching profession in general. We don't work enough hours, we get paid too much, etc...

[Anonymous]

All the spoiled, entitled princesses who quit will be shocked at how quickly and easily they are replaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the spoiled, entitled princesses who quit will be shocked at how quickly and easily they are replaced.

No they wont’t. All teachers know they are easily replaceable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the spoiled, entitled princesses who quit will be shocked at how quickly and easily they are replaced.

No they wont’t. All teachers know they are easily replaceable.

And replaced is better than dead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

I think it is because a lot of people tend to look so down on the teaching profession in general. We don't work enough hours, we get paid too much, etc...

Teachers work way too much. Much more than they are contracted for.

Pay? Not sure how anyone thinks they are overpaid when it’s the opposite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Again I think only a tiny fraction will leave. Jobs with summers off don’t grow on trees. The ones that can afford to just stop working were probably considering that anyway.

Teachers do not get summers off. They are contract employees, with contracts that run from August to June. In June, they must surrender their keys and ID cards, and are not paid during the summer months. ("Summers off" would be paid leave). In the fall, they return under a new contract. Please get it right.

You don’t work in the summer. You have summers off. Paid or unpaid, doesn’t matter. You aren’t working. You are off. It is a huge perk for a professional career. Why is this such a touchy topic?

Jealousy

In DC a teacher can now make almost $120k. Given that they're on a 10-month contract, on an annualized basis that's close to $144k (=$120/10*12). Plus you get off at 3pm, plus all that vacation, plus all that job security. With so many other folks having recently lost their jobs and/or being forced to go back to work, is it any wonder why some of us are getting tired of the constant whining by teachers?