My 4th grader has no teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

Gee, that’ll solve the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:When my kid was in kindergarten (Richmond Public Schools) they pulled a few kids from each class out each day to meet with an assistant rather than hiring a 4th teacher. Somehow reducing the number of bodies in the room for a portion of the day helped them magically be under the standards of quality ratios.

I think you have every right to ask the principal why this is the solution (are there really ZERO teachers? Our urban elementary school was able to hire a bunch of 22 year old college grads and only has vacancies for things like long term sub). I'd like to believe this was literally the only thing your principal could come up with for the short term but it can't hurt to ask. But ultimately, I've made my peace with the shoe string budgets, overcrowded classrooms, and other compromises associated with public schools. I still believe in them and want to support them, and I think my kids will be more worldly and flexible as a result.

They still need to be educated in the meanwhile, don't they? Sure, you can make peace with your kid lagging behind, but other parents don't accept this. The achievement gap remains for a reason. The parents who priortize education will make some alternate arrangements.

The research says the opposite. There is no reduction in "achievement" for affluent children. I've spent a lot of time researching this. Case in (sad) point: our SOL pass rates this year range from 29 to 64, but our pass rates for white students (huge correlation between ethnicity and socioeconomic status here) were 95 to 100 percent.

It's highly offensive of you to suggest that my children aren't being educated or that I don't prioritize education. I just don't ONLY prioritize my own children. My values are communitarian.

The good news regarding the achievement gap is that socioeconomically diverse schools like ours do more to close it than additional financial resources for hyper-segregated schools, all while saving school districts money. It's a win/win. The only problem is convincing people to read the data and consider that their opinions might be more about protecting privilege than an objective evaluation of facts.

Here's some further reading: https://kappanonline.org/integration-segregation-suburban-school-districts-montgomery-county-rotberg/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

Ew.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- the 29 kids is one class. That class stays together. Here’s their schedule-

8:40- breakfast and morning circle with an “extra teacher” I think she teaches something else after she sees them.

9:15- this is reading time. They don’t know who is teaching it. They said they will try to get subs and the reading specialist will help when she can. If they don’t have a sub, it will be whomever is available.

11:15- lunch/recess

12:25- Specials. They are hoping to keep this class together and not with the not hired yet teachers.

1:10- Math with the math specialist. Once a teacher gets hired, they will be broken up into smaller classes.

2:30- Sci/SsThey don’t know who will cover. They are hoping for daily subs until they can find someone. Until then, it will most likely be a different teacher or para than reading as the teachers also all have different jobs.

The other classes get to just stay with 1 teacher all day. I know you all say that I should just think this is fine and normal, but different teachers all day and each day being different is not going to create the community that my child needs. And it will be a completely different experience than the other 4th grade classes.

Teacher here. Clearly many folks commenting have no idea how ES runs. It’s actually okay if the class has different teachers during the day, and actually pretty great if the reading specialist covers reading and math specialist covers math. They are the best trained in those subjects and are supposed to help other teachers. In fact, this is what I would advocate for - until a permanent teacher or long term substitute is hired to take on the whole day, then the class has the two math and reading specialists as primary teacher every day. Daily substitutes or a consistent para can cover homeroom and follow the SS/Science lessons given by the other grade level teachers. Specials should just happen normally.

The reading teacher helping when she can is not her teaching the class. It sounds like 2/3 of core subjects will be taught by floaters. That isn't a good plan. At least language arts should have an actual teacher, not paras, subs, and the reading specialist dropping in and out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

Oh come on. It's totally reasonable to ask the principal to come up with a more equitable plan. No one is suggesting that teacher get raked over the coals or work beyond contract hours. Departmentalizing language arts and math, for instance, would at least allow all 4th graders to have a teacher in a core subject. And the incoming teacher, when they arrive, would have a lighter lift by mainly picking up science and social studies instead of all subjects.

The proposed solution may be tenable if the new teacher has already been hired and is starting in the next week or two. Otherwise, the principal needs to come up with an actual plan where all students get meaningful instruction in the core subjects.

See, but the assumption that they HAVEN'T considered all those options and had to reject them for one reason or another, is problematic. Why would you assume that they haven't thought it through, or that they didn't have valid reasons or an "actual plan?" Maybe departmentalizing things would make even more people unhappy or strain the remaining teachers even more. Our school once had to do something similar and decided to "spread the pain" like you suggest and instead of one class of angry parents they then had three. You don't have the data to make that analysis, nor should you because it's their job. Not agreeing with their judgment call when you have 10% of the information doesn't make you right and them wrong and clearly communicates the attitude that you think everyone involved is a moron who can't do their job and you as the parent know better. That basically encapsulates the larger issue right there. DCUM is really good at playing armchair expert and injecting a lot of toxicity, negativity, and assuming the worst of everyone into every interaction.

Yes, it sucks. Sometimes there are things that suck and all the available options are terrible and it's a matter of picking your poison.

You think it's okay to have random floaters teach one class while the other two classes are kept per usual just because it might lead to fewer parent complaints? You think the administration is in the right to not educate 1/3 of the grade just to keep 2/3 of parents happy? Seriously? It's not the job of the administration to take the easiest out but to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources. Resources should be spread equitably. Your view is appalling and the kind of thing that leads to law suits.

I have no clue what solutions were proposed and rejected and for what reasons and neither do you. This might have been the best one, even though it's awful. Why would your assumption be that the administration doesn't want to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources and that this wasn't it given the factors involved that you almost certainly don't know about? Probably 90% of "Why don't they just XYZ?" questions ever asked fail to take into account 100 reasons why "just XYZ" is actually really difficult or impossible. Like "why don't they just break up the county into little pieces?" or "why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box if it's indestructible?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

Oh come on. It's totally reasonable to ask the principal to come up with a more equitable plan. No one is suggesting that teacher get raked over the coals or work beyond contract hours. Departmentalizing language arts and math, for instance, would at least allow all 4th graders to have a teacher in a core subject. And the incoming teacher, when they arrive, would have a lighter lift by mainly picking up science and social studies instead of all subjects.

The proposed solution may be tenable if the new teacher has already been hired and is starting in the next week or two. Otherwise, the principal needs to come up with an actual plan where all students get meaningful instruction in the core subjects.

See, but the assumption that they HAVEN'T considered all those options and had to reject them for one reason or another, is problematic. Why would you assume that they haven't thought it through, or that they didn't have valid reasons or an "actual plan?" Maybe departmentalizing things would make even more people unhappy or strain the remaining teachers even more. Our school once had to do something similar and decided to "spread the pain" like you suggest and instead of one class of angry parents they then had three. You don't have the data to make that analysis, nor should you because it's their job. Not agreeing with their judgment call when you have 10% of the information doesn't make you right and them wrong and clearly communicates the attitude that you think everyone involved is a moron who can't do their job and you as the parent know better. That basically encapsulates the larger issue right there. DCUM is really good at playing armchair expert and injecting a lot of toxicity, negativity, and assuming the worst of everyone into every interaction.

Yes, it sucks. Sometimes there are things that suck and all the available options are terrible and it's a matter of picking your poison.

You think it's okay to have random floaters teach one class while the other two classes are kept per usual just because it might lead to fewer parent complaints? You think the administration is in the right to not educate 1/3 of the grade just to keep 2/3 of parents happy? Seriously? It's not the job of the administration to take the easiest out but to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources. Resources should be spread equitably. Your view is appalling and the kind of thing that leads to law suits.

I have no clue what solutions were proposed and rejected and for what reasons and neither do you. This might have been the best one, even though it's awful. Why would your assumption be that the administration doesn't want to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources and that this wasn't it given the factors involved that you almost certainly don't know about? Probably 90% of "Why don't they just XYZ?" questions ever asked fail to take into account 100 reasons why "just XYZ" is actually really difficult or impossible. Like "why don't they just break up the county into little pieces?" or "why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box if it's indestructible?"

This solution is plainly inequitable. That alone makes it an unacceptable option.

[Anonymous]

This happens partly to people of a certain party attacking teachers and unions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

I don’t blame teachers at all. They are not in charge of staffing.

I blame Central Office.
I blame the BOE.
I blame MCPS leadership
I blame our local politicians - for allowing our schools to get so overcrowded (due to various reasons).

Nobody blames teachers.

I blame DCUM. The vitriol against teachers over the last couple of years has been shocking.

Weird. But, you’re entitled to your opinion.

Do you think that eliminating DCUM will fix all of MCPS’ issues?

We're talking about a teacher shortage, not "all of MCPS' issues." Why are you on the thread if you don't even know what it's about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

And this is why teachers are leaving in droves. Thanks for nothing, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

And this is why teachers are leaving in droves. Thanks for nothing, PP.

Because parents get up set when school administrators choose not to educate their kid?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids graduated out of MCPS last year. I spent a lot of my time through the years to research the MCPS curriculum and enrich, expand, accelerate it for my children. Yes, I did send them to MCPS for normal socialization, for learning how school works and other fun and interesting stuff, but my kids always had my home grown parallel system of education at home. I covered most of the subjects (between DH and I, we have multiple college degrees in multiple fields) at home, except for FL which was taught by an MCPS teacher

My kids were also in the magnet pipeline and I am sorry to say that even in the magnet programs, it was common to have dud teachers and worse administrators. Of course, the magnet programs were a 100 times better than the regular program because of the excellent cohort of students, the informed parents, and the pace and rigor of the curriculum - but it also fell short especially in middle school because of some terrible teachers, exceptionally evil and lazy administrators, and the general exodus of great teachers.

Unfortunately, all this was happening way before COVID. The quality of MCPS education has been going downhill for a long time because of the swinging pendulum of extreme right and extreme left.

I have no words of wisdom for OP. My heart aches for her and her child. Please do whatever is necessary to make sure that they are getting a very good education at home, in private schools, in private coaching classes, through online resources.

You're so extra. So was your response to a mention of not having a centralized teacher assignment in elementary.

I am giving a possible solution, you moron! Parents who can swing it should put together their own educational teams to support their kids since things are not going to get better at MCPS, and the kids cannot afford to not get an education during the academic year.

If the OP is able to solve her kid's problem in any other creative way or by escalating to MCPS then maybe she can share on this thread? IMHO, it is doubtful that she can move the dial at all, unless she raises a whole lot of stink. Good luck to all of you!

It's not sla solution. It's just thinly veiled bragging

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

And this is why teachers are leaving in droves. Thanks for nothing, PP.

As a teacher, the quote you quoted does not make me want to quit. As a veteran fourth grade teacher who has taught homerooms and departmentalized, the schools plan is flat out bogus and if the principal cites the actionable plans above as not working for the school then they should be urging central office to send help. If central office can lend staff for standardized testing then surely they can come when schools are planning to fail children.

What makes me want to quit is when parents treat every minor issue as if it were this one and fail to see perspective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

Oh come on. It's totally reasonable to ask the principal to come up with a more equitable plan. No one is suggesting that teacher get raked over the coals or work beyond contract hours. Departmentalizing language arts and math, for instance, would at least allow all 4th graders to have a teacher in a core subject. And the incoming teacher, when they arrive, would have a lighter lift by mainly picking up science and social studies instead of all subjects.

The proposed solution may be tenable if the new teacher has already been hired and is starting in the next week or two. Otherwise, the principal needs to come up with an actual plan where all students get meaningful instruction in the core subjects.

See, but the assumption that they HAVEN'T considered all those options and had to reject them for one reason or another, is problematic. Why would you assume that they haven't thought it through, or that they didn't have valid reasons or an "actual plan?" Maybe departmentalizing things would make even more people unhappy or strain the remaining teachers even more. Our school once had to do something similar and decided to "spread the pain" like you suggest and instead of one class of angry parents they then had three. You don't have the data to make that analysis, nor should you because it's their job. Not agreeing with their judgment call when you have 10% of the information doesn't make you right and them wrong and clearly communicates the attitude that you think everyone involved is a moron who can't do their job and you as the parent know better. That basically encapsulates the larger issue right there. DCUM is really good at playing armchair expert and injecting a lot of toxicity, negativity, and assuming the worst of everyone into every interaction.

Yes, it sucks. Sometimes there are things that suck and all the available options are terrible and it's a matter of picking your poison.

You think it's okay to have random floaters teach one class while the other two classes are kept per usual just because it might lead to fewer parent complaints? You think the administration is in the right to not educate 1/3 of the grade just to keep 2/3 of parents happy? Seriously? It's not the job of the administration to take the easiest out but to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources. Resources should be spread equitably. Your view is appalling and the kind of thing that leads to law suits.

I have no clue what solutions were proposed and rejected and for what reasons and neither do you. This might have been the best one, even though it's awful. Why would your assumption be that the administration doesn't want to find the best solution for educating students with the available resources and that this wasn't it given the factors involved that you almost certainly don't know about? Probably 90% of "Why don't they just XYZ?" questions ever asked fail to take into account 100 reasons why "just XYZ" is actually really difficult or impossible. Like "why don't they just break up the county into little pieces?" or "why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box if it's indestructible?"

I understand your point but I've worked in MCPS for 15 years in several schools and there are 5 better plans that I've seen enacted and 10 that I can envision that would serve kids better than the one they have planned for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

Oh come on. It's totally reasonable to ask the principal to come up with a more equitable plan. No one is suggesting that teacher get raked over the coals or work beyond contract hours. Departmentalizing language arts and math, for instance, would at least allow all 4th graders to have a teacher in a core subject. And the incoming teacher, when they arrive, would have a lighter lift by mainly picking up science and social studies instead of all subjects.

The proposed solution may be tenable if the new teacher has already been hired and is starting in the next week or two. Otherwise, the principal needs to come up with an actual plan where all students get meaningful instruction in the core subjects.

See, but the assumption that they HAVEN'T considered all those options and had to reject them for one reason or another, is problematic. Why would you assume that they haven't thought it through, or that they didn't have valid reasons or an "actual plan?" Maybe departmentalizing things would make even more people unhappy or strain the remaining teachers even more. Our school once had to do something similar and decided to "spread the pain" like you suggest and instead of one class of angry parents they then had three. You don't have the data to make that analysis, nor should you because it's their job. Not agreeing with their judgment call when you have 10% of the information doesn't make you right and them wrong and clearly communicates the attitude that you think everyone involved is a moron who can't do their job and you as the parent know better. That basically encapsulates the larger issue right there. DCUM is really good at playing armchair expert and injecting a lot of toxicity, negativity, and assuming the worst of everyone into every interaction.

Yes, it sucks. Sometimes there are things that suck and all the available options are terrible and it's a matter of picking your poison.

+1 a forum full of armchair qbs who assume the professionals in charge of these plans haven’t thought through contingencies and just randomly make decisions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It baffles me that people truly think this is OK. It’s ok to look at positives but it’s also ok to acknowledge this is Bs

Of course it's not OK and it's absolutely BS. But complaining on DCUM and deluging the principal and superintendent with complaint emails and taking out your frustration with the situation on the remaining teachers like it's some kind of deliberate conspiracy to anger you and ruin your kid is part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Teachers got sick of it and voted with their feet. Major steps need to be taken to make teaching a desirable profession and attract more applicants. Salary is part of that but another part is the right to not have to be a doormat to every parent and admin and to be the authority in your classroom. I'm sure someone will come back with, "But teachers are all stupid and badly educated and don't deserve that respect or authority," but it's a chicken/egg situation and something has to give.

The principal chose which 29 kids in that grade to screw over. If my kid is one of those 29, I'm going to do everything possible to create more work and more headache for them

Oh, boy! More staff quitting due to parents.