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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d love to see the teachers who love teaching—and are good at it—but hate the nonsense throw in together and start up alternatives.
Something like Fairfax Collegiate but offered September-mid June.
No unnecessary administration or paperwork, steady schedules that make sense, no expectation or need to tolerate disrespect.

It’s the future of effective education.[/quote]

You just want charters.  I see you.[/quote]

Teacher here. Will charters and privates allow teachers to genuinely teach without the burnout-causing administrative tasks, unnecessary and harmful overtesting of students, and never-ending rotation of poorly developed county initiatives?

The answer seems to be yes. I’d love to see statistics on how many public school teachers are fleeing to these charter/private placements. I know several. 
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go work for the charters in DC.

they hook you up with a cell phone so you can be available to students in the evenings.

you have extra duties to fulfill outside of teaching hours that are not planning or grading related.

they work you even more than any public school in NoVa.

yeah, its great to work for a charter.

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+1 and often you are expected to do home visits. FCPS teachers wouldn’t last one day in the charter schools with all their whining.[/quote]

Why do you think it’s okay to be overworked and abused? Is it a sense of pride to you? A “look at me and what I can accomplish” feeling?

**If** it’s true that you are expected to do home visits and that you are given a cell phone for evening support, then simply say no. Neither of those are acceptable. Teachers are in such high demand right now that you have the power to do that.

Teachers are FINALLY pushing back at the assumption that our lives belong to our jobs. I don’t think you look better for martyring yourself.[/quote]

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