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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been monitoring the the portal throughout the summer.

https://lcps.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

There were 18 new openings posted today and of those 18, 12 are teaching positions. Twenty-one were posted on 8/1. Twenty-three were posted on 7/26. Some teaching positions go as far back as April but other support positions go back to fall 2021.

I'm a bit concerned because I see a Biology teacher is needed at the HS my DD attends, and she'll be taking Bio this fall. She didn't have a science teacher last year and it was a terrible experience. Science is already not one of her strongest subjects so she had to put in a lot of work to teach herself a lot of the topics. We also had to hire a tutor and with all of that, she only managed a B.   [/quote]

There is nothing new about this. The explosive growth in this county has always made it hard to fill all the open positions. They've had problems hiring for decades.  More than once, my kid's teacher was hired the day school started.One of the worst teachers we encountered was a day-of hire. They didn't even have the infrastructure to get the hires done until recently. I'd meet qualified teachers and specialists who had moved to the county and couldn't get a call back for years but were hired on the spot at a job fair the school system eventually had. At one point they were so desperate for special ed teachers they brought in several teachers from a program in Asia.  They've hired special ed staff and then called them in to tell them they'd have to cut their salary because they misunderstood their prior experience.  This was after the new hire had worked for months. Despite the administrative craziness which had improved up until covid,  they manage to attract a lot of good teachers. [/quote]

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