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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Friends who still work there say she’s managed to run off some really talented teachers already-pretty impressive for 1st year back. [/quote]

Considering TC/ACPS is all over social media pleading for teachers, this seems particularly unfortunate. I would wonder if anyone could put 2+2 together to recognize cause and effect, but that would require someone to care and I think we’re long past that point.
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Forget talented teachers - places like ACPS cannot afford to run off even average teachers.  In TC it seems like the average tenure is less than 3 years.  The churn of teachers cost money - HR efforts and onboarding training cost a lot of money - and it is costly on a day to day, week to week basis when new staff needs to learn all the unwritten policies of the building.  All the knowledge is swept aside every year.

You should try to make average teachers better, not just trying to recruit talented teachers.  TC lost a lot of staff this year.  30%?[/quote]

The churn has less to do with the board or central office and more to do with the fact that a huge chunk of the school is comprised of the offspring of feral inhabitants of public housing. School is free lunch to these people and nothing else. Generations and generations of impoverished, illiterate, criminals living off our tax dollars and contributing nothing positive. Disagree all you want but it's the truth and we all know it. TC is a de facto juvenile detention facility for many.[/quote]

Nice language there.

The churn has to do with central office and the admins at the school (APs included).

The vast majority of teachers who take a job at TC know about the student demographics and challenges.  The vast majority who leave do not leave because of the kids, but leave because of the admin (and central office and board's) response to the kids.  [/quote]

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