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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DCPS middle schooler has had weeks without a math teacher - first in 6th and now again in 8th. Can someone explain why this happens? Does it happen in private school?[/quote]

Former DC private school teacher here. No it does not, because as teachers we are expected to sub for each other's classes. So it's a completely different pool (current faculty vs DCPS subs). We did have free periods so maybe more flexibility to do this.

Also, I taught for 5 years and no one ever quit mid year. The one time a teacher left was because they committed a crime and then were fired. Leaving mid year is verboten because you know you are screwing over students and your fellow faculty.[/quote]

I think this differs school to school.  I've been at my non-religious and expensive private school for years now.  Every single year we have at least one teacher leave mid year.  It's unclear who has been fired and who has quit.  It took 2 months to get a new science teacher.  The other high school teachers subbed but they don't have science backgrounds, so who knows how it went.  We had a middle school learning specialist ("special Ed" lite) leave and she was not replaced until the following year.  Two other teachers came incredibly close to quitting their first year at the school, one due to horrific behavior, the other due to being asked to teach trig, and calculus during the same class period.  So yeah, it happens, a lot.  Catholic schools I've known of see it all the time.  [/quote]

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