Reply to Alleged teacher shortage

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Alleged teacher shortage "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a school administrator in FCPS, I’ll agree with many who say that it’s not necessarily difficult to staff the schools (unless maybe you’re a poorly run Title I with a teacher exodus), but I will say that the QUALITY of candidate is declining. Whereas 5 years ago we were still pulling from B+ and A- candidates in July and August, waiting to hire now until that time is getting you Cs and Ds. I’d encourage folks to re-center part of this discussion on teacher quality rather than quantity. My worry is that some of the best and brightest that once saw K12 as a calling to a fulfilling career and good retirement and no longer doing so... this unfortunately leads to negative outcomes for our students.[/quote]

Your post is on par with my experience and I've posted about it.  We have at least 5 long-term subs at my school and they have been in place since September.  There are applicants for those positions but my principal has not hired any of the applicants.  It is better to go with a good long-term sub than it is to hire a bad teacher.  Unfortunately teaching is seen as a profession of last resort for most people.  The only ones who do it seem to be either very committed or very desperate.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics