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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They track the staff who leave in and the have it in the last school board meeting of every month. They lost 276 teachers in the summer time last year and lose about 30 teachers a month during the school year. So far this year they have lost 454 teachers post contract/ midyear, not including retirees.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/D55GQD44BDF6/$file/Monthly%20Separation%20Report%20April%201%2C%202024%20to%20April%2030%2C%202024.pdf
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Here is the data of the people who break contact or leave midyear [/quote]

Thanks for this, PP. Interesting and enlightening and a bit shocking to see these stats.[/quote]

The scariest part is the numbers don’t seem to be improving each year. Public education has never seen mid year departures at this rate before because it was a given that if you quit midyear that your career was over. Now the staffing is so unstable that it’s not the career ender that it used to be.[/quote]

So many of my county colleagues left or fled to Loudoun where the pay is higher and is typically a shorter commute. LCPS = FCPS of maybe 40 years ago: growing population with new build homes in higher demographic with shiny new schools.

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The High COL is killing Fairfax. Even houses in the “rougher” school zones are incredibly expensive for public service workers. They have some housing voucher programs for teachers and emergency services employees but apparently the waitlists are super long. [/quote]

Loudoun is expensive too. [/quote]

But not like Fairfax [/quote]

I dunno about that. A crappy 90s house with no land is a million dollars in Loudoun.[/quote]

This whole area is crappy.[/quote]

I started on FCPS when the salaries were higher and moved to Loudoun a couple years back. For any teachers reading this, the behaviors aren’t as bad, the schools are nicer/newer, great co-workers…so feel free to make the shift. It’s great out here![/quote]

This is really great to hear![/quote]

Really depends on the area and school, just like FCPS. Some schools are good, others not so much. You just have to really look at the farms % and go from there. Preference for the subsidized housing in the new developments should really be given to teachers instead of people that don't use birth control and have way too many kids.[/quote]

I know a teacher who just left a school with a FARMS % in the single digits, largely because the students were misbehaved.[/quote]

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