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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is so misleading to say we are fully staffed. At our school, we are down 4 teachers. They combined classes so class size is just south of 30 kids and there is a patchwork of coverage. We are talking 4-5 people taking shifts to cover the day. It’s a disaster. I don’t know if Reid understands how bad it is in schools or if she just doesn’t care. [/quote]

She knows it’s bad. You cannot attract new teachers anymore though and the current ones are burning out and leaving early. Very few teachers in the current cohort are going to make it to a 30+ year career with full retirement. Even my colleagues 1-3 years away from retiring say they couldn’t have don’t it this long if it had been as bad as it is now. [/quote]

But that is the thing. She literally has a teacher advisory board. The main focus should be how to retain teachers. Talk to and ask the teachers. There is a lot they can do to off load workloads and to make working in FCPS more desirable. [/quote]
Has she considered putting her professional and certified staff members into the schools to give real, hands-on help?  If not, she does not get it.

They should be in the classrooms before making genuine resource teachers--who do work with kids-do double duty.[/quote]

They were in the schools last year and probably will be again. Reid drastically reduced the PD for this year in response to strong teacher feedback about too much PD. You can’t just get more teachers to show up, especially special ed (when the feds mandate so much but haven’t come anywhere close to meeting their funding obligations). The system is broken but it’s not at the FCPS level. This is nationwide.[/quote]

We have admin at the school level that treat SPED teachers badly too...like not ensuring caseloads are equitable o a team. They turn a blind eye while one or two SPED teachers are drowning. Then they are surprised when those two teachers leave. Ask me how I know![/quote]

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