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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid started one year - I think it was 4th grade - without a teacher. He had a series of short term subs for the first week or two, then a long term sub for about 6 weeks.  At that point the school gave up on hiring someone, split up his class, and added 8-9 kids to each of the other 3 classrooms. It was not good.[/quote]
FCPS is a joke. They hire people with no teaching qualifications. 
[b]I don’t know how they are getting away with it.[/b][/quote]

Think about the area you live in. Why would anyone become a K-12 teacher when they can go make better money -- and be more admired by their neighbors -- doing a different kind of work? NOVA is an expensive place to live. More to the point, it is a striver culture. Teaching K-12 is not as valued because it is perceived by the people who live in Fairfax County as lower pay, lower reward field, and therefore, commanding of lower respect. Why would you do that when you could strive for better? There is always the temptation to leave teaching behind for something better. In a mid-size or smaller town/area, teachers are much more valued and a pillar of the community because it is a sought-after job that pays pretty well.

It doesn't help that there are many mal-adapted children in the area with behavioral issues (including being incredibly spoiled) and checked out parents who don't ever correct their behavior and blame the teachers. The teachers are not to be respected, because they chose teaching, obviously. They're dumb for doing that when they could go to law school, or whatever.

When you run it through the lens of simply living in Fairfax County's striver culture, it all begins to make sense why teachers would leave for work that is higher pay, higher status, and higher reward with less work required.[/quote]

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