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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If districts want more minority teachers, they aren’t going to get them if they continue with unpaid internships. I’m not low income but it was touch and go for a few months during my student teaching year. I definitely had to play some checkbook roulette that year. The same was true my first 5-7 years of teaching. If my father hadn’t died and left me $20k, I would’ve been hitting up the food kitchens. [/quote]

Teaching is a low return on investment degree. Honestly they need to partner with community colleges to make teaching a four year program at each community college. Make a teaching degree as cheap as possible. [/quote]

I think that would attract less qualified people.[/quote]

Having teachers go through an actual low cost program would be better than the trainee program. A low cost degree would attract more candidates with better training. [/quote]

The money saved may not be that big of an incentive.[/quote]

The biggest mistake the county made was cutting off the participation in the old retirement plan. [/quote]

Is that why teachers are leaving to pw and LCPS?[/quote]

Prince William just made some nice adjustments to their salary, which will encourage some of the teachers that live there to start working there. A lot of the teachers that live in that county have a 30-50 minute commute daily (due to traffic).

LCPS hasn’t increased their salary to be as competitive, but I can imagine a 10 minutes commute is better than a 30-45 minute commute. Not everyone wants to teach in Herndon, the commute to work in Oakton, Vienna, etc. gets expensive and tiring.[/quote]

What is supposed to make Fairfax more attractive is the supplemental pension. By the time you factor the time and wear and day on your car driving in every day it’s not worth it for many people.[/quote]

I commuted from Loudoun to Fairfax for 7 years. It’s just not worth the time and money when, with the shortage, I can get a job easily down the street.[/quote]

Yup. FCPS is not an employer worth staying with.[/quote]

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