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[quote=Anonymous]MV teachers form the core of my social group. Turnover seems really high right now compared to past years - it constantly sounds like someone new is leaving... But from the complaints i hear, the reasons teachers are leaving is nothing that seems like it wouldn't be an issue at other charters right now, so it's hard not to believe other schools aren't dealing with the same. Here's what I hear MV teachers complain about.

1. Having to supervise kids at lunch, when this is supposed to be their free time/planning time. This seems to be because of insufficient staff and happens regularly.
2. Having to walk 10 minutes each way to get to and from recess at a public park. It's stressful taking a group of 20+ kids down DC streets everyday. The school needs dedicated recess staff, preferably so teachers can use recess for planning. Or put recess space on campus.
3. Insufficient coaching for all teachers and support for new teachers. Not the quality of what is there, but rather the amount of it that is available.
4. Pay. At least some of the teachers leaving are going to DCPS and making $10-20k more. Some don't even want to leave, but how can they not??? For those not going to DCPS, they've decided that with a tight labor market, slaving away 55 hours a week at a hard job making $55k per year isn't worth it - they'll easily find something else that's less stressful.
5. Kids seem to have lost a lot of basic "how to be in school" skills over the pandemic, making the job a lot more difficult. And for what it's worth, some parents seem to have, too. 
6. Sometimes young teachers quickly realize they are in the wrong profession, and there is not much there to help them get through the year. Sometimes they quit. Whether or not they do, the situation generates extra work for their colleagues.

A lot of these issues are issues related to a tight labor market, and are mostly outside the school's control. I don't have the same social circle teaching in other schools, but it just seems like these are mostly things that all charters, and to some extent all schools in general, would be going through right now.[/quote]

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