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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here and no, this isn't how it works. (Plus, PLENTY of parents give me $...allowed or not.)

You want teachers to stay? Parent your child. Get them off screens (teachers cannot compete with non stop entertainment). 
Support us: call the principals with good news about us.
Talk to admin about discipling kids. Be pro suspending kids, and bringing back detention.
Admin doesn't enforce anything anymore because they're afraid of parents so teachers have to deal with kids misbehaving all day.[/quote]

I hope you move on from APS. I wouldn't want my children being taught by you. Yikes.

Sorry about your raise though. Teachers do deserve better.[/quote]

You cannot assume PP is addressing you specifically when she says "parent your child." She's talking about what teachers want generally, and enough parents do neglect to parent their children to the point where teachers are stuck with the task. Obviously someone who is going to talk to admin about disciplining kids isn't going to be the type of parent who has to parent their child.

Please don't hope that PP moves on. We really do need teachers to stay. [/quote]

OP.

I get that the teaching isn't what it used to be and that there's a lot of disrespect from all sides, and that the pay raise is insulting too. But in the end, just like I don't like angry parents around my children, I don't want bitter teachers to spend 6 hours/day with them either. Get yourselves together or get out of the profession please.[/quote]

Why can’t we fix teachers’ pay and working conditions instead?

Why is your solution simply to “get yourselves together” and deal with it? Why should teachers accept this? Would you?

And what do we do when all teachers take your advice and leave?

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Because if it is that easy, all school boards around us would have fixed compensation issues already. In every single DCUM board, everybody's complaining about the same things. The budget isn't there to do what we need to do. In Virginia in particular, Youngkin has done his best to divert funding from public schools, which has impacted Arlington significantly, because whatever initiative the state approves, we only get 20% of it. The school board has to find the other 80%. Google the "JLARC report" if you want to get into the weeds.

Yes, I expect teachers and honestly any paid APS employee to be the professionals. Especially around my children. I see too much bad behavior not just fro kids but also from the adults when I volunteer in the school, and my children tell me how bad some of their teachers are. If teaching has become that demoralizing that you have to take it out on the kids, PLEASE LEAVE! Go find your next career in the private sector.

As for question #3, I would have walked away too. Remember during the pandemic when people got fed up with their working conditions and quit en masse? Even McDonalds had to raise their salary and provide somewhat decent benefits to get people back flipping burgers. APS has a union now too. I wonder just how effective they are.

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