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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I would love is a teacher who is brave enough to write an expose of FCPS.  Maybe someone who is planning to quit anyway.  I really don't think the general public has any clue what it's actually like these days in the "responsive classroom."[/quote]

You really, really don’t want to know what goes on behind the curtain.  Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. [/quote]

I know, but if the public found out, hopefully there would be an outcry and change.  For starters, a completely different school board.[/quote]

I don’t know.  I feel like the whole management process needs to change with more teaching teachers having leadership roles or at least vetoes or “votes.”  Yeah, rigged surveys don’t count. So many of the people we work for are so incompetent, it kills me. Too many Ed.D programs are 1. Nowhere near as rigorous as they should be and 2.  are churning out some class act idiots.[/quote]

This! I left teaching in public schools after 15 years of THIS! I couldn’t handle working for people whose entire purpose seemed to be making my job harder and less effective.

I now work in a private where administrative roles are shared among practicing teachers. It’s heaven. No more listening to “the latest and greatest” idea coming from someone who left the stress of the classroom. [/quote]

DP.  This sounds fantastic.  [/quote]

I’m the PP. I would love to see US education completely change to the model above.

If you’re a good teacher, you shouldn’t be leaving the field to become an administrator. We need you in the classroom! That way the students still benefit from your teaching and newer teachers can observe your methods. If you’re a poor teacher, you also shouldn’t become an administrator. I’ve been in education long enough to see several poor teachers transfer to admin, where they can do significant damage through dreadful observations and lack of vision.

I doubt it would cost more to switch to this model (which is already used in other countries). Admin salaries are much higher. Use the money saved there to give the lead teachers a pay boost for the extra administrative work they’ll do and provide them with extra planning time.

Ultimately, everybody wins. [/quote]

Disagree. Most entry-level admin jobs don’t have a significantly higher hourly salary… they are higher because they work a full 12 months and need to be compensated for an extra 50+ work days. After school commitments for APs and principals are also significant in a way that they are not for teachers. While I agree that teachers need to be paid more, expecting that we’ll somehow attract BETTER administrators by offering less pay is just fantasy land. If anything, we should be paying them MORE (FCPS has lowest admin salary of all surrounding counties) to increase our candidate pool and be able to attract the best talent! [/quote]

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