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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Knowing we have a Superintendent and Board that, in most cases, doesn't have the skills to manage and lead a school system the size of FCPS what do we to bring FCPS back to being one of the premier school systems in the United States?  Where would you cut funding and where would you increase while looking to maintain a flat or reduced overall budget?  [/quote]

1-cut a bunch of high priced Gatehouse positions, and also the instructional services ones where people are paid to make boring slide shows and deliver bad PD that teachers absolutely loathe
2-cut all the school-based instructional coaches and anyone else in a non-administrative but also non-teaching position

That right there would make life much better for teachers and maybe allow us to actually do our jobs instead of checking boxes for the county's "accountability."

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You sound like a teacher who doesn’t want to be held accountable for what you teach and how you teach it. Teaching methods and curriculum constantly shift, you’re employed to keep up and teach using specific methods as dictated by Gatehouse. [/quote]

Gatehouse has entered the chat.[/quote]

In this instance gatehouse is right. Do you seriously think letting thousands of teachers teach what they want and how they want is the right way to run things? Name a single company that lets their employees go to work with no oversight, training, or accountability. That’s ridiculous.

Whether it’s brand new teachers who need guidance and support, or veteran teachers who need help keeping up with the latest teaching methods, professional development and oversight are both necessary.

This is not to say that teachers should have no say, but there’s a difference between having a say and expecting to do your job with no accountability and consistent expectations. [/quote]

Except these positions don't actually accomplish any of that. [/quote]

The coach positions are useless for the most part.  The problem is, they have been legislated in and so removing them would require changing state law. The reason why those positions feel so crappy and beraucratic is because they are politically mandated. [/quote]

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