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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the teachers truly quitting or are they just reassigned, requesting/granted transferred, lateral move, or whatever you eat to call it to a different school?[/quote]

That is not possible. No one is approving a lateral move once school has started. The only way a teacher could leave after school has started would be if they got a promotion. For a teacher, that would be moving to an assistant principal position. There have been a few AP positions that have posted—maybe five or six. There’s no way that is accounting for the movement OP is noticing. The likely culprit is a combination of life events (spouse transferred, burnout, personal medical issues). [/quote]

There are other “promotions” - getting a “resource teacher” position is treated as a promotion, as is a variety of jobs  in central office. [/quote]

Actually many are not, especially a “resource teacher position.” They’re still a teacher. Just because someone is going to central office in a support position does not mean it is a promotion. A longer contact does not mean a promotion. [/quote]

My school lost 2 “teachers” last year who went to be “resource teachers” at other schools mid year, so, yeah, it was treated as a promotion, else they’d never have been able to make the move mid-year.[/quote]

Either you’re misremembering or something else happened where your principal agreed to release these teachers. There is no promotion for a teacher to move to another teaching position mid year. Not an instructional coach, not a resource teacher, not even an SBTS is a promotion for a teacher. Principals are under no obligation to release a teacher to another school mid year unless that teacher is promoted to an assistant principal or other administrator position.

—an FCPS principal[/quote]

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