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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going to get worse as time goes on [b]because the school board has gotten more liberal.[/b][/quote]

No.  It is likely to get worse as time goes by because there is a nationwide and state-wide teacher shortage and so people are getting temporary licenses, fast-track programs, and schools are having to be less selective about who to hire/retain and they still can't find enough.  This teacher and administrator shortage has many contributing factors, but is largely in response to the culture of teacher-bashing, the lack of professional flexibility due to the residue of No Child Left Behind and its emphasis on standardized testing, and a perception of relative low teacher pay compared to the required educational commitments and the day-to-day challenges of the job.  People can make more money creating a private LLC as a tutoring company in the DMV than they can make as teachers and have much more professional control and sense of agency.  As less competent and prepared teachers are hired, we're going to see the stronger ones leaving as there is little flexibility to reward excellence with higher pay. [/quote]

This is completely baseless.  This is an old problem that has actually gotten better, not worse.  It's about administrators and good old boy (or girl) networks covering up wrongdoing.  Sexual abuse was much more widespread and rarely exposed 50 years ago, when the media was less powerful and less pervasive.  in FCPS we still have a lot of people from that generation trying to cover up everything that looks bad, and that's actually the main job of the assistant superintendents (as most of them practice it).  And you can't make any money tutoring as an LLC unless you have a big capital investment and a lot of persistence and a little luck - it's currently one of the most competitive industries in this area.

Moreover, teacher pay in this area is not low.  It's high.  Benefits are incomparable.  People can't stand the job because it just plain sucks, and the main reason for that is the all-powerful building administrators who treat their schools like their private kingdoms.  Combine that amount of daily disrespect and powerlessness with the fact that the average teacher in FCPS works 55-60 hours a week (on AVERAGE) - most of that spent in pointless admin-directed meetings - and no one really wants to do that job for long.[/quote]

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