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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first grader still does not have a permanent teacher for her class yet.  They are now hiring a long term sub who has zero experience in the classroom, while continuing to look for a permanent teacher. I’m new to MCPs, and wondering if this is a common thing that happens. Are subs usually any random person who applies?  No teaching or classroom experience needed at all?   Has anyone had a situation where their child never gets a permanent teacher the entire year?[/quote]

Substitutes, and quality ones, are a weakness of MCPS. While I won't say your situation is unheard of, I also wouldn't say it's common. Did the teacher leave after the school year started? That's usually where I see scenarios like the one you've described.[/quote]

No. They never had a teacher. One day before school started they apparently enrolled an extra student over the cap, to give them a 4th class. So they immediately split up the existing 3 classes, and assigned my daughter’s class two different staff members to teach the class. Now they are transitioning to a long term sub because they can’t find a teacher, and the staff members need to do their originally hired positions. [/quote]

What a mess. [b]This seems like the principal fumbled here[/b] since they planned on hiring a teacher and clearly didn't have a candidate in the pipeline capable of making it in time for the beginning of the school year.[/quote]

+1. Sounds like an inexperienced principal.[/quote]

I’m a different PP but at the same school. The extra class was added the day before classes started and no candidates were available at that point. It’s actually a very experienced principal who is usually really good at this but the timing here was impossible. You can reserve someone when lots of other schools know they have positions confirmed.[/quote]

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