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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just go to the Employment section of the FCPS website. [b]You will see the pages and pages of jobs. [/b]They are in all areas and at all grade levels.

I paid attention for the first time this school year and noticed that there were pages of jobs available all year long. Usually positions are filled by Sept 1 or August at the latest. That wasn’t the case this year.

I spoke with someone in leadership about it once during casual conversation and they confirmed that yes the shortage is real. [/quote]

There are 113 openings advertised.  https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm ...and that includes all full and part time teacher scale positions.

That's a vacency rate of .0061

That's really, really low.

Nope, there is no shortage.[/quote]

It doesn't seem like a shortage until there's 25 to 35 kids in your class. Then it definitely is![/quote]

Correct. A shortage doesn’t mean “zero teachers .” It means “every teacher have has 40 students instead of 20.” [/quote]

Exactly.  I can manage 35-40 per class doing DL.  There is no way I can manage in person with the current class sizes because my classroom just isn't big enough to handle close to 40.  Forget about hybrid - two classes of 20 per half day isn't going to work because there is no social distancing.

Parents need to get real.  Your refusal to adapt to DL is the biggest problem we have right now because the logistics of hybrid and f2f for all just don't work.  We don't have enough teachers![/quote]

Okay, I will just tell my 1st grader to “adapt” to learning by watching a screen all day.[/quote]

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