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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to treat teachers better. Stop dumping so many responsibilities and administrative tasks on them. Hire more support staff in schools.
Parents need to stop treating teachers like the hired help and like the professionals they are. In another thread here, a parent refers to a kindergarten teacher as "a babysitter." And you all wonder why teachers are leaving the profession in droves.[/quote]

This. Sorry the fact is teachers may not be able to afford to live in Arlington. Just like I’m not able to afford the neighborhood that I really want to live in. So I don’t live where I work. However, if I was treated horribly at work when it was an emotionally and sometimes physically demanding job, I’d likely be looking elsewhere, too!  [/quote]

The problem with this attitude is that we will lose good teachers because Arlington is so expensive.  Fairfax pay isn't that much less and you get more house for the money.  They will continue to attract teachers because of that and APS and it's students will be the ones losing out.  APS knows this is a problem but they haven't tried to fix it.  [/quote]

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