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[quote=Anonymous]I know that next year at my school is going to a sh!tshow.

Several teachers left the profession completely.

We couldn't fill a few empty positions for the 2021-2022 school year (2nd, 4th, and 5th grades), so I am not confident that even more empty positions will be filled.

The kids in classes without teachers are being shortchanged. If my kid was in one of these classes, I'd demand a transfer. If the school refused, I'd do anything in my power to get them out of that school and into any kind of private that I could afford.

Some of the kids who didn't have a permanent sub or teacher this past year had not been in a classroom since 2nd and 3rd grade. I know there is at least one class of 5th graders going to middle school wildly unprepared. And if that 5th grade teaching spot isn't filled over the summer, there's a chance that kids who had no permanent teacher in 4th grade could suffer the same fate in 5th grade.

Can you imagine kids going into middle school in 2023 who have not had a real teacher or stable classroom experience since their 2nd grade year of instruction? Just completely outrageous.

The DMV area really fcked over our kids. My sister is a teacher in a state that did not go virtual in 2020-2021 (it was an option for any immunocompromised kids, though). We compare notes all the time and the kids that I teach have so many more struggles compared to the kids she teaches. She teaches 2nd grade and her experiences this past 2021-2022 school year are so vastly different from those of my coworker friend who teaches 2nd grade here. My friend has had to do so much reteaching of topics that her kids didn't learn last year doing virtual schooling. I mean, there were several kids who started the school year this year who should have been held back. The 2nd grade kids here also had many more behavior problems because the last time most were in a classroom was back in March 2020 as Kindergarteners.

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