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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens if the teacher puts the job in and no one takes it?[/quote]

Then they pull someone else or find a patchwork of staff in the building to cover. Or if a non-classroom teacher has a sub in the building then they'll pull that sub to cover the class with no sub. It sucks when you've arranged a good sub in advance and spent hours writing plans and preparing materials and you get back to school and find out that they pulled your sub because another teacher didn't have their job filled. But that's life. Or, in some cases they might split the kids among the other classes in the same grade. [/quote]

That's the problem. Some schools have so many non-classroom teachers.  I know a lower elementary school of less than 400 students which has 6 full time ELL teachers, 4 SpEd, a Math specialist, r Reading specialist, 2 focus specialists and 1 teacher for exceptional students.  There are also 3 others teachers whose title I don't even know ...

The average classroom size is 18 students so I don't understand why the school needs all these extra teachers.[/quote]

In contrast, my school has about 825 students. There are primary classes with 30 students. We have one ESOL teacher and one reading specialist. That's about it other than SpEd.

I don't know what a focus specialist is. [/quote]

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