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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the model has to do with race that much…. My point was stated that offer tenure, pension, and fairly nice raises every year don’t seem to struggle to find applicants as much as the states without tenure, that do away with pension, and that hardly have step increases or just freezes them for years. [b]They also don’t hate textbooks and like to give teachers resources.[/b] There’s plenty of old crumbling buildings staffed with good teachers and good resources up here. Down in the south there’s so many nice, shiny, new looking buildings not from the 1920’s or 1950’s or even 1970’s but they’re not full of resources or staff that feel they’re compensated fairly enough to stay there for over 30 years.

Nice buildings shouldn’t be the top priority. We have plenty of old eyesore buildings up here full of teachers in their 20th year and beyond. [/quote]

Va teacher here.  This is what I desperately want.  The worst part of my job is the obscene hours I have to spend coming up with materials for teaching, because [b]Virginia doesn’t provide resources and expects teachers to be content developers[/b]. [/quote]

[b]That's not a statewide thing[/b].[/quote]

It is for middle school math. [/quote]

LOL.  PREACH!

Our middle school only provides textbooks for Science.  Science!!!

Do we provide textbooks for ELA or Math, the most important subjects?  NOPE!  No textbooks for the most important subjects.  But Science textbooks, sure thing!?!

I'm not knocking science, but if you can't read then that textbook isn't going to do you a bit of good.  And if you can't add or subtract, then you won't get the full value out of the textbook either.

We're in CRAZY LAND where the decision makers in our school systems have absolutely NO IDEA what teachers and students need.  No wonder my colleagues are throwing up their hands and walking out.[/quote]

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