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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel free to blame your Republican governor for this! Elon Musk is not American and did not grow up in the US and has absolutely ZERO experience with the US educational system. He seems to think the USDOE runs things, but no ladies, it is mostly done at the state and local level. [/quote]

Wait you think Youngkin did this? VDOE is not setting the number of admin in FCPS schools and at Gatehouse. You could maybe argue that some of the burden admin are supposed to be picking up (the measurment and data collection) comes from VDOE, I guess? But really, this was accelerating long before 2021.[/quote]

I agree. This has little to do with local govt.

My thoughts? Teaching has gotten ridiculously challenging and many people are[b] looking for a way out[/b]. Admin is the easy answer. So people apply for admin, and once they get the job they create additional positions to pull others out of the classroom. Then they end up needing to justify all these positions, and so we get the pointless initiatives. And who gets to deal with it? The teachers who didn’t take the opportunity to jump to admin.

So admin creates work and teachers do it. When I started teaching, I had 4 administrators. Now I have 11. Our school population has decreased.[/quote]

A ton of teachers sneak out of the classroom in ways other than leaving the profession. They dip into coach, resource teacher, and [b]ESOL positions which usually has less ratios and documentation, as well as administrative and central office jobs.[/b] [/quote]

It's fewer, not less. I'm an ESOL teacher with anywhere from 50-70 kids on my caseload. It's a ton of paperwork and testing. I teach FT and do all of that too. Yes, my groups are smaller but they are the lowest performing students in each grade. Most classroom teachers don't want that.[/quote]

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