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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They laid teachers off last year and now don’t have enough? Seriously?! These people don’t know their $&@ from a hole in the wall.[/quote]

When, and why, we’re teachers laid off in LCPS? I don’t remember that happening.[/quote]

I know at my kids' LCPS school, when the estimated numbers came in for new students, the school had to make the equivalent of like three FT staff position cuts. Staffing is based on school population and the incoming class is expected to be the smallest one in a number of years, likely because people who sent their kids to private during the pandemic are keeping their kids there. Plus any additional funding from pandemic stuff is gone now. So the county didn't announce cuts or anything, but the school principals have to make new numbers work by cutting staff.

In our case, the fourth guidance counselor, who had just been hired the prior year, was the first to go. I don't know what other positions were cut, but I think they may have knocked a few people down from FT to PT, including the choir teacher. So mental health and the arts are, as usual, the first on the chopping block.

So yeah, those folks were notified before the end of last year about their contracts not being renewed. Then as teachers leave at the end of the year and over the summer, the schools find out they now don't have enough staff to fill the positions that they do need. [/quote]

Just want to clarify these aren’t lay offs. They’re called destaffs. A schools enrollment may change so that school may only be allotted 4 counselors instead of 5. The 5th doesn’t get fired or laid off, LCPS just moves them to a school where there is an opening for them. So these things don’t really affect staffing numbers - if they’re short, it isn’t due to destaffs, and teachers don’t get “laid off.” Shortages would only be due to teachers leaving for whatever reason (moving, retiring, quitting) and there not being enough applicants (or qualified ones) to replace. [/quote]

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