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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher and parent here. What hasn’t gotten adequate air time is the effect of teacher/sub/misc. other employee shortage on schools. Unfortunately, teachers are resigning in droves with no clear replacement because education school graduate numbers have been dropping for years and are currently disturbingly low. Anyone who works in a school can tell you this is affecting students negatively, and the future isn’t bright.[/quote]

This absolutely. We have been in dcps since 2009 and had a kid finish Deal right before the pandemic. School was crowded but well running. Now is more crowded and we experience lots of absences among teachers. They got sick unfortunately (notwithstanding the parents ranting above about coward teachers, teachers went to school and did their jobs and got covid in many cases, or their kids got sick and they had to stay home). My kid has lost weeks of language instruction and I don’t think the teacher will be able to be back. The school has organized a boot camp on saturdays but the reality is that my kid truly has not learned much in that subject. I heard similar complaints from friends with kids at Walls and others in MOCO. My kid at Wilson did not have a physics teacher until November this year, with thr semester class ending in January, same happens to the class of AP physics to the point that a parent volunteered and went to teach.

Some parents still rants about closures last year and don’t see that there are no teachers for their kids. If remote learning was bad for them, wait for an in-person class with no teacher [/quote]

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