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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I left in October and already posted on this thread. 
For me the pandemic exacerbated problems that already existed in public education. I got in teaching because I love working with kids. Not because I love learning targets, useless data, and giving mandated assessments that don’t actually explain who the child is as a learner.

It’s been a slowly creeping evolution. However when all the kids returned this fall (I went back in December of 2020) I realized that there was nothing left of the job I loved.

Also, as an extra burden I taught sped. And the gulf between what we promised parents and what we actually had the supplies and resources to provide is huge. So I felt like I was daily left with 2 choices. 1. Lie to parents about what was happening 2. Work non stop to make myself not feel like a liar- even though my efforts never covered the Gap.

I took on a role as a well compensated nanny. I get to hang out with kids, explore, plan field trips and meet them where they are at. Oh, and we have a credit card for any activities we do. The irony is it’s what teaching should have been but never was. [/quote]

The lying about sped is spot on. Not a sped teacher but sat in meetings where the admin and sped team lied about services. I don’t blame the sped teacher- the sped team has to follow the lead of the admin.

If DCPS parents only knew..[/quote]

City council needs to enact a law that requires DCPS to share the schedule of exactly when and with whom kids are receiving IEP hours. None of this 10 hours out of the classroom time but you get 30 minutes in the classroom because there’s no one to service the hours. Wtf are “consult hours” where a SPED teacher can check off discussing with the teacher and call it hours met? Prove with a schedule you are meeting the hours. [/quote]

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