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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our principal is wonderful but he has a boss too and can't just cancel everything because we are stressed.  The hardest part right now is the student behavior.  My friends think I'm joking when I tell them what elementary kids are doing in classes with no repercussions. We have kids cussing out their teachers, running at full speed around the building, climbing on top of cabinets and just punching the crap out of each other for no reason. These aren't even students with services. These are kids who have experienced a tremendous amount of trauma during COVID and lack any self-regulation strategies. To my admin's credit, they do come when we call them but they can't really do anything. Nobody has been suspended this year because that's a big no-no in schools these days as we don't want to "perpetuate the school to prison pipeline". Parents are either unresponsive or at a loss too. Since I know DCUM is crawling with advocates, YES we are trying to collect data and do FBAs, etc. but this used to be one or two kids a year in the entire building. Not a few in each class across the building.  We aren't even fully staffed anymore due to resignations.  It would be great to wave a magic wand and have staff appear but no such luck. We've been approved for critical staffing to provide 1:1 support for one student but nobody is applying for the position.  So right now, all non-classroom staff can't do their jobs because they are either covering lunch/recess, subbing for classes (there aren't subs), helping deal with behavior issues, or serving as the 1:1
I'm so sick of it.  We can't get through lessons when a few kids in each class are just occupying 99% of our time and energy. I feel terrible for our kids who desperately want and need to learn. It doesn't help that we're trying to pretend that the pandemic didn't happen and we're still  trying to teach grade-level content to students who lost so much time. 
MCPS is losing a lot of staff.  Higher ups in central are catching on that the grass IS greener in other districts.  [/quote]

I could have written this word for word. I have friends at three other elem schools and 2 have expressed similar feelings as well. Particularly spot on was the comment about the few kids in the class that drain 99% of our time and energy. I’m not sure exactly where the disconnect but I have friends that teach in Howard, AA, Balt City along with other states and they are shocked at what I describe to them. Anecdotal I know but eye opening about the differences nonetheless. [/quote]

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