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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a lot of hype on this thread.  I have seen no other place where people are worried about staffing.  This seems to be a normal year?

Nothing in:
- newsletters from school board members 
- newsletters from my child’s schools 
- during my child’s IEP meeting
- in the Washington Post
- FCPS news releases

I’m not convinced that this is actually a problem. Teachers come and go every year. [/quote]

It has been all over the news nationwide that teachers are leaving in droves. There will be many kids starting the year without a full time teacher. [/quote]

+1. It's a problem. School board member are trying to hold onto their seats or get promoted to BOS. There is no way in hell they want to advertise that a record number of teachers left the district during their term. A specific school may not be personally impacted or may be holding onto that information for the same reason as above, plus real numbers for FCPS are just starting to come in. An IEP team is not going to tell a parent during a meeting that they are looking at a lot of special education vacancies next year because that invites all sorts of problems, plus the IEP meeting was probably before the end of the school year so they may not have had the numbers yet anyway. Washington Post has mentioned the staffing shortages in summer school already. Teachers had until June 15 to resign w/o prejudice or transfer so some of the official numbers are starting to leak out. Individual schools are advertising on social media, FCPS is holding virtual job fairs and advertising separately for special ed positions, and other school districts are posting alarming numbers about staff departures.

I suspect for a lot of people it's not a problem [i]for them[/i] just yet so they "don't see it". [/quote]

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